Another Book Video - Book Signing!

Wheeee, one of my favouritest (totally a word) bloggers, Mir, had a book signing today! And one of her friends made a video of it.

Check. It. Out.



Possibly I've been hanging around with too many writers when one of my first thoughts was "Mir is friends with a DOCTOR!"

Creative Book Announcement

About the book... "Once upon a time, a mom and her daughter were talking. (Moms and daughters tend to do a lot of that.) Daughter Corey had come up with an idea. She wanted to make Halloween healthier and more Earth friendly, so she founded Green Halloween. Mother Lynn thought this was brilliant (and not just because Corey is her daughter, although that may have figured into it a tiny bit), but wondered, why stop there? Why not apply the same principles to every holiday and celebration?" Read more...

I've "known" Lynn Colwell through a writing group and her emails are always a joy to read. She wrote the only authorized biography of the original writing mother, Erma Bombeck.

Lynn and her daughter Corey wrote Celebrate Green! together and this is their very creative book launch video:

Five ways to promote your book that others aren't using right now...

(caveat - most people may not be using these NOW, but they will be after I post this)

1 Make tshirts
I’ve got this awesome t-shirt that lets me program stuff into it. Its got an LED display and it basically rocks - for those of us that can’t get the electronic version though, have you ever considered printing your ISBN on the front of your tshirt?

Quirky, and helpful, it’ll let anyone interested in your work have the ISBN number of your book, plus its incredibly photogenic, and scores massive geek points.

(the other four are at Publishhacks)

I'm curious how others promote their books though - have you found any highly successful methods or something that really doesn't work? Share it please!