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Book Marketing Tip of the Week
April 30, 2008: Hairstyle Appreciation Day, Mean Girls Day, Mr. Potato Head Day, World YWCA Day, Wee Folk Day

Details on these days — and 18,500 others! — can be found in
John Kremer's Celebrate Today Special Events Data Files.

In this issue . . .
-- Fast Company website
-- HarperCollins new publishing endeavor
-- John Kremer's free Q&A call-in day
-- NPR's The Takeaway morning show
-- Rick Frishman and Robyn Spizman's new book: WOW!

Fast Company website
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Every work day, Fast Company team members, contributors, and special guests (you could be one!) offer short, sharp, and substantial entries in the Fast Company blog at http://blog.fastcompany.com. Have you found something interesting? Got a topic you'd like them to weigh in on? They invite you to suggest a topic at http://blog.fastcompany.com/suggest.html.

The Fast Company website is now set up as a social networking site which allows you to set up a profile, invite friends, write your own blog there, and do other social networking things. Here is my profile on the Fast Company website: http://www.fastcompany.com/user/113348.

Note that you can establish a blog here if you like. If you have written a business or technology book, the Fast Company website would be a great place to blog and establish connections.

HarperCollins new publishing endeavor
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Jeff Rivera, author of the novel Forever My Lady,
took time to interview Robert Miller who is
starting up a new endeavor at HarperCollins that
will feature low or no advances and an author's
share in profit. Check out his interview here:
http://www.jeffrivera.com/ROBERTMILLER1.htm.

 

John Kremer's free Q&A call-in day
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My next free Q&A call-in day is Tuesday, May 6th, featuring two times to call: once at 3:00 p.m. Eastern, Noon Pacific time, and a second call at 8:00 p.m. Eastern, 5:00 p.m. Pacific time.

Phone number to dial for both calls: 218-486-3696
Use conference ID for both calls: 2092800#

Afternoon Q&A call log-in to listen via the web:
http://www.instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=2690004

Evening Q&A call log-in to listen via the web:
http://www.instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=2690067

NPR's The Takeaway morning show
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National Public Radio has a new morning show that is launching on public radio stations in New York, Boston, Baltimore, etc. A combination of news and analysis, this one-hour show is hosted by John Hockenberry and Adaora Udoji. Contact most producers in care of WNYC Radio, 160 Varrick Street, New York NY 10013. Web: http://www.thetakeaway.org.

Graham Griffith, Executive Producer

Collin Campbell, Senior Producer

Jim Colgan, Producer

Associate producers: Leo Duran, Noel King, Sitara Nieves, Corey Takahashi

Femi Oke, Senior Editor

Adnaan Wasey, Web Editor

Rick Frishman and Robyn Spizman's new book: WOW!
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Rick and Robyn have just released a new book called Where's Your Wow?
where they reveal a step-by-step formula for becoming a WOW person. WOW happens when you and your business, ideas, and abilities stand out in that very small zone called distinctive. You do something or handle yourself in a way that's so fresh, innovative, and impressive that you are memorable.

If you want to participate in their Amazon.com bestseller campaign, go here: http://www.wheresyourwowbook.com/aff/johnkremer. If you buy the book now, you'll get lots of great bonuses.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer blogs
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Janice Phelps Williams, author of Open Your Heart with Pets: Mastering Life through Love of Animals is now writing an Open Your Heart with pets blog for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Check it out at: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/openyourheartwithpets.

Quotable Books
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We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident,
bits of a star gone wrong. — Arthur Eddington, physicist

More great quotes at http://www.quotablebooks.com

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