Tuesday, September 22, 2015

A Microphone? -- Oh My!!

Last Thursday, I gave a presentation to the Women’s Discussion Group at my subdivision on my five books, mainly promoting Love For Sale and Gambler’s Choice, coming soon from TWRP. I prepared a PowerPoint presentation including a slide with the cover introducing the book and giving its genre and heat rating. The next slide contained the book video.

The ladies loved the book videos and watched intently! I created the video for Love For Sale, and an author friend did the one for Gambler’s Choice.
Now, standing in front of a group with a microphone in hand, is not my favorite activity, but it was fun, and I sold some books. Most of the ladies are over 55, and I was surprised the books that sold best were the ones I had advised were “racy”.

I think the experience was worthwhile, both in name recognition and promotion, and would like to find other venues.

What has been your experience with such presentations?








Linda Nightingale
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5 comments:

  1. Beth Trissel10:48 AM

    Kudos to you for making the effort to give this talk and preparing such great materials for the presentation. It sounds fabulous. I'm glad it went so well. I have done a few talks, but not with book videos, and yes, they were well received, especially by the older crowd. A lot of readers in that age group. Maybe I should do more book videos.

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  2. Toni V.S.1:13 PM

    Congrats on being able to talk into a mike. I have mike fright and whenever anyone points one at me, I freeze.

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  3. Nightingale2:42 PM

    Thanks Beth and Toni for visiting and sharing your experiences! Linda

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  4. stanalei11:30 AM

    Love your trailers. And kudos for the courage it takes to talk to a crowd.

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  5. Fran McNabb5:31 PM

    Congratulations on your good experience in front of a group. I love getting in front of a group and talking about books (especially MY books!!)or about publishing in general. That probably comes from being a retired teacher. I miss the entire concept of teaching. Good luck with your books.

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