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BUZZ YOUR BOOK - The CLASS - Once only in 2010 - 5 SPOTS LEFT

  Your publisher has ten, twenty, fifty books to market every season... you have one! And there's a lot you can do to be your publisher's marketing partner and help your book. With their blessing.

That's what Buzz Your Book - the class - is all about and I'm only teaching it once in 2009. From Jan 11th to Feb 19nd.

And once again Matt Baldacci - VP, director of Marketing and Publishing operations at SMP- will be the guest lecturer.

The class takes place over six weeks all on line, one on one,via email and is limited to 25 students and we're starting to fill up. The sign up link is here. 

The class is based on the book (Buzz your Book) Douglas Clegg and I wrote and is designed for authors as well as publishers.

To date authors from Pantheon, McCadam Cage, Simon & Schuster, Bantam, Doubleday, Time Warner, Hyperion, Ballantine, Penguin, & SMP have already taken this class as well as publicists and editors from Tor, Wylie and Simon & Schuster. (While the class is designed for authors, since it is one on one it can be easily tailored for publicists.)

Read what other students have said  here. Scroll down.

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Joshua Henkin's Busy Day
originally posted: November 13, 2007

Joshusa Henkin, who has been racking up the accolades for his new novel Matrimony, spent the day over at The Elegant Variation yesteryday. It's not all that unusual for an author to guest blog. But the way Henkin guest blogged puts every other guest blogger to shame. The series of posts over the course of the day is very much like a mini course in fiction writing and contemporary thought on the state of fiction writing. (Which makes sense since Henkin teaches creative writing at both Sarah Lawrence and Brooklyn College)

To read the fascinating posts click here and then scroll down and keep scrolling.

And if you haven't bought Josh's book, please do. He's a friend but even if he wasn't, Matrimony is a wonderful book.

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This Blog Is Worth the Price of a Hardcover
originally posted: August 28, 2007

Thought you were getting away not paying dues this year?

No such luck.

Today's pub day for my newest novel, which as faithful readers of this blog know, is when I suggest dues are due. (It's been 15 months since the last book was published. so you've gotten a few free months in there.)

I'm really proud of this novel. It's my first BEA Buzz book, my first Booksense pick (for Sept), my first starred reviews in PW and LJ, my first review in Entertainment Weekly and more to come according to emails we've gotten.

The book is suspense, takes place in NYC now and in 1884 and Rome now and 391 AD. There are reviews here along with a book description.

So don't think of it as buying a novel for $16.74 - $24.94 (depending on where you shop.)
Think of it as buying a novel and paying dues for a the last 15 months of BB&H.

I'm doing a few dozen marketing things for this book which I'll be reporting on in the near future. And I'm on an really big tour, stopping in Philly, Oakmont PA, Seattle, San Fran, Miami, Tallahassee, Madison CT, Old Greenwich CT, NYC, St. Louis, Cherry Hill NJ, Kentucky, Phoenix... its all here along with a booktrailer done by VidLit, an interview done by Expanded Books, and a podcast where Carol Memmot from USA Today interviews me.

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M.J. Rose is the author of nine novels -- Lip Service, In Fidelity, Flesh Tones, Sheet Music, The Halo Effect, The Delilah Complex, The Venus Fix, Lying in Bed and The Reincarnationist (Sept 07).

She's also the co-author of two non-fiction books -- How to Publish and Promote Online and Buzz your Book.

Her books have been published in more than 9 countries and have been praised by The Chicago Tribune, Cosmo, January Magazine, The BookReporter and more

A pioneer in internet marketing, Rose has been profiled in Business Week, Forbes, The New York Times, Time and has appeared on The Today Show, Fox News Five, The Diane Rheims Show, the Jim Lehrer News Hour and CNN..

She has contributed to Wired.com, Oprah Magazine, Poets & Writers, Pages, Salon and others.

Rose founded the first marketing company for authors: Authorbuzz.com