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The Wordsy Woman philosophy when it comes to book marketing is that there is no one-size-fits-all magic bullet tactic that’s going to work for every author and every book. There is no proven system you can follow that will guarantee your book to become a best-seller. What works for one author, one book, or one reader may not work for another. So I advocate getting back to the marketing basics.In Book Marketing Basics The 5 Ps, you will go beyond hit-and-miss marketing tactics to learn how to apply the marketing fundamentals in the ways that make the most sense to your product, your readers, your personality, and your preferences.It will help you get your book or product in the best shape as possible to prepare for the market. You’ll decide the best price at which to offer your book or product for sale as well as where offering it for sale is most likely to attract buyers. We’ll also cover promotion; in general as well as online and off. Throughout it all, you will learn how to take the fifth P of people into account, which includes your readers and yourself.Follow this advice to evaluate your book as a product, its price, its distribution, its promotion, its readers, and yourself to provide the best chance of selling and helping you to meet your goals.

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"I’ve known that marketing was Jodie Toohey’s passion since the first time I laid eyes on her. It was at a 2008 launch event for Crush and Other Love Poems for Girls and everything had an orange theme. I picked up an orange pencil. There wasn’t much left of that pencil after my husband used it for a carpentry project, but I saved the nub all these years. Printed on that four-inch piece of orange wood is “CRUSH” and a web address. I’ve kept it because it was, and still is, a valuable reminder of the essence of marketing: getting your name and your product out into the world, and letting people know how to find you.

Book Marketing Basics: The 5 Ps; Applying the Fundamentals to your Book is Toohey’s latest book. I was thrilled to receive a free early copy so I could provide a review. I have watched Toohey hone her approach to marketing by leading traditional classes, holding multi-day workshops, and experimenting with online avenues for instruction. She’s always made her educational tools interactive and relevant.

My favorite chapters from Book Marketing Basics:
Developmental Editing—a great money saving idea that’s easy to implement.
Line or Copy Editing—offers solid examples to help your writing.
Copyright—or now not to stress out about protection.
What To Charge? & Discounts—numbers are always important for the bottom line.
There are too many chapters on where to sell and how to promote to list them all separately.

I found things I knew and needed to be reminded of, plus new things I’d like to try out. There are tips for saving money and advise on spending your money wisely. Throughout is the mantra of knowing your readers and connecting with them either in person or online. The list of resources at the end of Book Marketing Basics is a gem all by itself.

As a writer, I started out at the lowest level and I sure wish this practical resource book had been there for me."

Product details Paperback 161 pages Publisher Wordsy Woman Press (January 28, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 1733623604

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Book Marketing Basics Applying the Fundamentals to Your Book Jodie Toohey 9781733623605 Books Reviews

• I’ve known that marketing was Jodie Toohey’s passion since the first time I laid eyes on her. It was at a 2008 launch event for Crush and Other Love Poems for Girls and everything had an orange theme. I picked up an orange pencil. There wasn’t much left of that pencil after my husband used it for a carpentry project, but I saved the nub all these years. Printed on that four-inch piece of orange wood is “CRUSH” and a web address. I’ve kept it because it was, and still is, a valuable reminder of the essence of marketing getting your name and your product out into the world, and letting people know how to find you.
  
  Book Marketing Basics The 5 Ps; Applying the Fundamentals to your Book is Toohey’s latest book. I was thrilled to receive a free early copy so I could provide a review. I have watched Toohey hone her approach to marketing by leading traditional classes, holding multi-day workshops, and experimenting with online avenues for instruction. She’s always made her educational tools interactive and relevant.
  
  My favorite chapters from Book Marketing Basics
  Developmental Editing—a great money saving idea that’s easy to implement.
  Line or Copy Editing—offers solid examples to help your writing.
  Copyright—or now not to stress out about protection.
  What To Charge? & Discounts—numbers are always important for the bottom line.
  There are too many chapters on where to sell and how to promote to list them all separately.
  
  I found things I knew and needed to be reminded of, plus new things I’d like to try out. There are tips for saving money and advise on spending your money wisely. Throughout is the mantra of knowing your readers and connecting with them either in person or online. The list of resources at the end of Book Marketing Basics is a gem all by itself.
  
  As a writer, I started out at the lowest level and I sure wish this practical resource book had been there for me.
• A Book Review by Dan Moore
  
  I begin my review with this comment "I received a free early review copy of this book so I could provide an honest review."
  
  The thesis of Jodie Toohey’s forthcoming book, Book Marketing Basics The 5 Ps; Applying the Fundamentals to Your Book, is embodied within the dedication on page 4 “… dedicated to all authors … with a story to tell and words to share.” The techniques she offers in the book are clearly stated, easy to follow, and germane to reluctant, as well as to the more experienced writer.
  
  She provides a simple framework for authors to follow in marketing contained in five principals Product, Price, Place, Promotion, and People. Jodie’s style is always encouraging, which appeals to the Walter Mitty in new authors in the attempt to foster a sense of security and an urge to go forth and conquer. She smartly focuses first on the 5th P – People, and then folds this factor into every aspect of the other 4 Ps. This clever approach subliminally reinforces the importance of the author/marketer knowing themselves, as well as their target reader and ultimately, purchaser. Hers is not a Pollyanna approach or fortune cookie blurb; it is a concept well developed by her thesis.
  
  Jodie allows that luck may have something to do with the success of a book, but marketing a would-be-best-seller requires use of the old state lottery promoter’s maxim you gotta play to win. Her message is this means you, the author. To aid in this endeavor, she offers ‘tools’ for a writer’s toolbox, encouraging the author to determine who her reader is and then to pluck the tools she needs from her book’s toolbox to satisfy the identified reader. Jodie encourages writers to challenge themselves, keep the logistics of writing convenient, and live abundantly. Writing habits should fit the author’s lifestyle, embrace her efforts, and not fear the necessity to tweak her routine for better results.
  
  Her methodology is all about framing a mindset. This approach is friendly and woos the reader with a goal of confidence to be bounded by the caveat you don’t have to try everything. The writer should identify hurdles and then develop methods to overcome them with the tools the book offers. To that effort, do not allow self-limiting beliefs to overcome ambition.
  
  Each section of her book not only provides useful tools for preparation of a manuscript for publishing and marketing, but augments these with expert references, practical exercises to strengthen the product, and tips on valuable lessons learned from someone who has done this before. She constantly brings action requirements back to the reader, mostly with a subtle, “now let’s get started”. She lays out the methods and lends the encouragement, but places the onus squarely on the writer to determine what she is willing to do to meet her stated goals. To this end, her message is for the writer is “establish her own brand” and sell herself to her self-identified target audience.
  
  In the all-important chapter on the first P – Product, she goes to great length to impress on the author that before any attempt at marketing, the manuscript should be “the best it can be”. She breaks this into three detailed sections big picture revisions, copy/line editing, and proofreading, covering time-tested do’s and don’t’s of polishing manuscripts and pointing out pitfalls to avoid. At times Jodie strays from her marketing theme with pointed details on how to write (style and composition). But these side streets are not off ramps, but provide scenic detours to be welcomed by all but the most experienced authors.
  
  She gives solid, useful tips on editing; sheds light on the ins-and-outs of formatting, publishing, and pricing (discounts, sales tax); what to expect from the “big boys” when trying to display your book (returns, placement fees); and offers pragmatic ways to reach your reader and have her reach you, the author.
  
  The information Jodie provides in the Price, Place, and Promotion chapters are lessons learned from a professional in how to get your book “out there”. At first, these tips don’t seem nearly as important as worrying about split infinitives, punctuation, or dangling participles. But, they are crucial to building success in an author’s marketing effort. A writer can have the “perfect” book, but where and how she sells it (and this is the pointy end of Jodie’s thesis) is just as important.
  
  Jodie Toohey’s Book Marketing Basics The 5 Ps; Applying the Fundamentals to Your Book, is a valuable, contemporary addition to any writer’s bookshelf, or in her terms, toolbox. It is concise, easy to ready, and well worth becoming a page-worn, well-thumbed reference.