Arizona Book Publishing Association

June 29, 2009

Our Marketing Panel Presents Its Best Tips for Publishers!

Marie Callender’s Restaurant and Bakery
4573 E. Cactus Rd.
Phoenix, AZ 85032
Phone: (602) 996-0622
For the the exact location, visit Mapquest.com

Program (includes dinner) 5:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Bring a Friend and Get a Deal: Members, Register Yourself and a Nonmember as Your Guest and Each Attends for Just $20!
Early Registration (by June 25): $25 members $35 non-members
Late Registration: $35 members $45 non-members
Advance payment is required for registration; no refunds after June 25, 2009.

“Best Marketing Tips for Publishers”

Three panelists will present their best marketing tips including insight on what has worked for them and what was just a waste of time. With real-world success stories to draw from, our trio of marketing mavens will discuss their best tips and tricks for maximizing your book marketing message. Hear this powerful, interactive panel share their marketing savvy. Paul McNeese will moderate.

LYNDA EXLEY

When Lynda Exley was 8 years old, she started her first neighborhood newspaper. It was hand printed on sheets of scrap paper with pictures colored in crayon. Today, Lynda is a multiple, national award-winning journalist and editor for the SanTan Sun News and Arizona Parenting magazine. She also develops marketing and publicity plans for Five Star Publications, a publishing company that supports traditional, partnership and self-published authors. Though having spent close to 14 years freelance writing and editing for local and regional publications, Lynda refined her public relations skills during a stint as community relations coordinator for Borders Bookstore and at “ground zero” promoting her son’s book, The Student From Zombie Island, which was published by Five Star and sold 1,500 copies in the first five months of publication. She is also cofounder of Kids Can Publish University.

CLAIRE PERKINS

Claire M. Perkins is a personal evolution coach and award-winning author of The Deep Water Leaf Society: Harnessing the Transformative Power of Grief (Intuitive Journey Press 2008). After losing her eldest son to a drug overdose in 2004, Claire embarked on a conscious and creative journey through grief into healing. By using a unique combination of dream work, journaling, expressive arts and inner guidance, Claire learned that within this deep experience of grief a gift of profound spiritual transformation awaited her discovery. Today she shares her methods with others who are grieving through coaching, retreats, workshops, blogging and public speaking. For more information, visit www.DeepWaterLeafSociety.comor contact Claire at 480-924-7086.

ROBIN REYNOLDS

Robin Reynolds has more than twenty-five years of professional creative experience as a writer, art director, producer and advertising creative director (which means she was about 8 when she started). Known for her sense of style and sense of humor, she has written and produced award-winning advertising for broadcast, Web and print media, written theatre and film reviews for two local newspapers, written a series of stories for a line of stuffed animals she created, and written comedy monologues for Yakov Smirnoff. She is the author of Life to the Max: Maxims for a Great Life by a Dog named Max and she is the Head Noodler of her company, NICE Creative, which is a creative marketing and branding agency and the publisher of her book.

VOE: none this month

We won’t have a Voice of Experience this month in order to provide more time to our panelists.

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Arizona Book Publishing Association
6340 S. Rural Road #118-152
Tempe, AZ 85283

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