Literary agents agree. Editors at Big Six publishing houses agree. Bestselling authors agree. If you want to publish a book, you need to use social media.

But what is social media? How can YOU use it to sell your book-in-progress?  Why have a blog, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn? How will you write your book if you are always online? And who really cares about social media metrics?

For the answers to these questions and more, attend Swenson Book Development, LLC’s Social Media Strategies for Authors Workshop where you will learn how authors use social media to:

• write
• research
• build a profitable audience platform
• market, promote, publicize, and sell books
• attract invitations for speaking engagements and guest appearances and
• to connect directly to readers who will purchase your book

When:  Saturday, January 21, 2012, 1 – 2:30 p.m.

Where:  Buffalo Street Books, 215 S. Cayuga Street, Ithaca, NY

Facilitator: Jill Swenson, Ph.D.  Swenson Book Development, LLC

Cost:  $40 per person ($30 for bookstore cooperative share-owners)

Register:  Email buffalostreetcooperative@gmail.com with your name, phone, and workshop of choice

Advance registration required

Workshop limited to 20 participants

Writing and Listening — an Interview with Brooke Randel

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As a young girl Brooke Randel knew little about the Holocaust—just that it was a catastrophe in which millions were murdered, and that her grandma Golda Indig barely escaped that fate. But her Bubbie never spoke about what happened, and the two spent most of their time together making pleasant memories: baking crescent roll cookies, playing gin rummy, and watching Baywatch. Until an unexpected phone call when Golda said, out of the blue: “You should write about my life. What happened in the war.” What results is a fascinating memoir—about one woman’s harrowing survival, and another’s struggle to excavate theRead more…