Praises for You Can Market Your Book

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Advance Praises for You Can Market Your Book

"If we had a royal title of Queen of Promotion, the crown would belong to Carmen Leal. She probably knows more about promotion than anyone I've met in more than 25 years in the publishing business. Even more impressive, she doesn't just write and teach promotion, she goes out in the marketplace and does it. " -- Cec Murphey, Award winning author, co-author, and ghostwriter of more than eighty-eight books.

"I had to make myself put You Can Market Your Book down to do other work. It is magnificent! Carmen's willingness to follow the "Master Builder" has resulted in her producing the master marketing resource for published authors. This is an indispensable tool for anyone who is published -- or who hopes to be published." -- Sandy Brooks, Director, Christian Writers Fellowship International

"You Can Market Your Book is an excellent resource for authors, whether they are self-publishing their books or helping their publishing houses to promote them. Carmen Leal offers suggestions on seeking endorsements, choosing a title, and designing a press kit. She also gives ideas for marketing and developing a speaking platform. Tips from other professional writers add the icing on the cake." -- Susan Titus Osborn, Director of the Christian Communicator Manuscript Critique Service

"You Can Market Your Book by Carmen Leal is an outstanding resource and one of the most comprehensive books I've seen on the topic. Authors who follow her practical, detailed, suggestions, are bound to be best-sellers! -- LeAnn Thieman, Co-author Chicken Soup for the Christian Woman's Soul and Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul

"If your marketing budget is somewhere between majestic and miserable, You Can Market Your Book is just what the doctor ordered. Carmen Leal knows what all authors need to know. Every author can be a marketing maven. There is no excuse." -- Allison Gappa Bottke, Creator/editor of the God Allows U-Turns, True Stories of Hope and Healing.

"The dilemma of proting Christian books is legendary: Publishers don't have the funds to adequately market their products, and authors are uncomfortable about calling attention to their good works. Well, help is at hand. Carmen Leal not only offers a step-by-step program that addresses HOW to promote worthy Christian books, but she also explains WHY it's essential that we do it. Her approach introduces the idea that writers and publishers are partners in producing life-changing reading material. If what we write can inspire people on their spiritual walk, we have an obligation to boost its visibility and availability. -- Holly G. Miller, Travel editor, Saturday Evening Post and Co-author of Write on Target: A Five-Phase Program for Nonfiction Writers

"It's a hard reality that you as an author are the chief (sometimes only) marketer of your book. What you do can make the difference between 'Best Seller' and 'no seller.' In You Can Market Your Book, Carmen Leal not only shows why we must market but what to do and how to do it. With several chapters contributed by other specialists, the help Carmen gives in this book is essential to every serious author. It is a rich resource." -- Roger Palms, Author of Effective Magazine Writing and fourteen other books

"Carmen Leal really dishes out the goods this time. You Can Market Your Book should be on the shelves of every author. It's an insightful, practical tool for those who are self-published as well as those backed by a major publisher. -- Brandilyn Collins, Bestselling author of Eyes of Elisha and Color the Sidewalk for Me.

"Carmen Leal's latest book, You Can Market Your Book, is invaluable to the author! This great book not only educates the author on innovative marketing strategies, but Carmen has intricately woven faith principles throughout the chapters that inspire and strengthen." -- Ken Wales, Executive Producer Film and Television, Author, Sea of Glory---The Story of the Four Chaplains.

"Carmen Leal just created a near-perfect blueprint for publishing success with You Can Market Your Book. Treat yourself to this book the very day your manuscript is accepted for publication. Better yet, buy it as soon as you put pen to paper -- after all, the builder studies a blueprint long before hammering the first nail. -- Wendy Lawton, Author of Courage to Run, Tinker's Daughter and Almost Home.

"I read You Can Market Your Book with a pen in hand, writing down tips and practical helps that made perfect sense to this author whose book was scheduled to be released within the month. I found so much valuable information in the first two chapters alone that I couldn't wait to finish the book!" -- T. Suzanne Eller, Author Real Teens, Real Stories, Real Life .

"Carmen's book came at the exact moment I needed it. I had a finished, edited book and sixteen weeks to publication date. But I hadn't made the mental shift from "writing" to "marketing," and what's worse, I didn't want to make that shift. But why had I written my book? So that people newly-diagnosed with cancer would know where to turn. And how will they know about my book if they never hear about it? I needed Carmen's book. She didn't just tell me how to market, she showed me. She drew me in with stories--stories of real people--and before I knew it I was thinking, "Hey, I can do that!" Immediately I got busy. This book is perfect for writers like me who are "reluctant marketers."" -- Amy Givler, M.D., Author of, Hope in the Face of Cancer: A Survival Guide for the Journey You Did Not Choose

"Carmen is a master teacher who has learned her lessons well and I1m thankful that she1s willing to teach us how to market the books of our hearts. You Can Market Your Book needs to be added to the list of 3must haves2 for writers. It is the necessary element in completing the writing process." -- Jill Rigby, Author of Manners of the Heart and Manners of the Heart At Home

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