BK Nonfiction Book Marketing Workshop 2021 - Your Roadmap to Success

What’s Next: Your Long-Term Plan For Your Book’s Long-Term Success By this point, you have heard so much great advice about how to market your book for success. In this session, we’ll talk about why continued marketing efforts are more important than ever, why they create outsized results, and how to build a plan from […]

James Rokas James Rokas is a recent graduate of the USC Thornton School of Music, with a B.M. in Jazz Studies and a minor in Music Industry. I have a deep love for many different styles of music, though my focuses have primarily been guitar performance and composing/arranging for large jazz ensemble. I am currently […]

Marketing the Revolution: A Panel Discussion Most marketing advice speaks of “dominating” keywords and “owning” your market. But what do you do when you’re marketing revolutionary ideas that challenge the very assumptions of predatory capitalism? How do you build a community instead of fan base? And how do you convince your publisher that your non-traditional marketing ideas […]

Book PR and Marketing Questions Answered I spend a good portion of each day answering questions. They can range from, “What’s BookBub?” to “How do I set up my Amazon Author Central?” to “Why wasn’t I in Buzzfeed’s round-up on best books to read during Women’s History Month?” to “I’d like to be interviewed by […]

Humanizing Your Marketing by Leading with Heart: How to Build Trust, Increase Engagement, and Connect to Convert Through Email Marketing In marketing, people are not just numbers—but it can be easy to lose sight of that fact. Which is why the foundation of a successful marketing strategy is built by focusing on engaging the people […]

You Better Werk Join us to hear practical advice from Edgar Villanueva on how he went from one (fabulous) book launch party to the launch of an organization and capital fund in under three years. Regardless of your goal for your book – this session will inspire you to do the work in a way […]

What I Learned Selling Burgers and Blush Tamara Winfrey-Harris spent 20 years promoting Mary Kay Cosmetics, McDonald’s, milk and Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, before she published her first book, The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America. Listen as she shares the pro tips that turned her debut […]