Bestseller For A Day August 17th - In Leah’s Wake

Today, August 17th, is Terri Giuliano Long’s big day! Her award-winning novel IN LEAH’S WAKE, is the featured book for BESTSELLER FOR A DAY. The premier promotion of the Indie Book Collective, BESTSELLER FOR A DAY is designed to push indie authors to the top of the Kindle charts!

(Don’t have a Kindle? Grab a FREE Kindle app here.)

What does all this mean exactly? How does this involve me? What do I do?

For you, the reader, it’s easy AND fun! Today through midnight:

1.  Go to Amazon.com and purchase Terri’s eBook In LEAH’S WAKE for only 99 cents! (The normal price is $2.99 so you save two dollars.) Terri loves when readers save money! They can buy more books! Like these 4 breathtaking bonus buys, on sale this week ONLY for just 99¢ each: BELLA, THE TRUST, SOPHIE & CARTER, and CHASING AMANDA

2.  Your purchase helps show the big boys in NY publishing houses what indie authors can do! Every purchase improves Terri’s ranking on the overall Amazon chart. Our goal is to get her eBook, out of the millions of eBooks, onto the Kindle Top 100!

IN LEAH’S WAKE, the BOOK BUNDLZ 2011 BOOK CLUB PICK, has already hit #7 on the Barnes & Noble Nook Bestseller List! And #14 on Amazon’s Books/Parenting & Families/Family Relationships chart! How awesome is that? Terri’s positively amazed! She had to pinch herself to prove she wasn’t just dreaming!

The Top 100 chart takes serious firepower! To do it, she needs your help!

Please shout her out to your Twitter stream, Facebook friends, friends and family, even your dog. Reviewers have called IN LEAH’S WAKE: “a stellar debut,” “engrossing, “a book for our times.” One reviewer said: “no one who reads this book can remain untouched or unmoved.” Another said Terri’s writing is “superb, compelling, and leaves a serious impact!”

So…what are you waiting for?

3.      Once you purchase her book, head over to the Bestseller For A Day site and enter to win a brand new KINDLE – Terri’s way of showing appreciation for your effort and support!

4.      Wait! There’s more! How about this? 4 MORE AMAZING reads – only 99¢ each! BELLA, by D.C. journalist Steve Piacente, a hotbed of danger and intrigue in the U.S. Military. THE TRUST by Sean Keefer, an award-winning, knock-your-socks-off legal thriller. CHASING AMANDA, a luminous, must-read thriller by award winner Melissa Foster. And, last but definitely not least, SOPHIE & CARTER, a rocking YA romance by Wonder Woman Chelsea Fine, one of Amazon’s hottest new authors!

5.  If you’re still not sure you should part with that buck and maybe win a brand new KINDLE, here are 45 – yep, 45 – outstanding 4 & 5-star reviews that may change your mind. It’s hard to part with your cash in this economy. We get it completely. Look at it this way: your 99 cents is an investment in a powerful and compelling family story, a great read. What’s more, it’s an investment in all indie authors trying to prove their worth.

Terri appreciates all the love and support you’ve shown her these past few months, pushing IN LEAH’S WAKE up the charts and onto the Barnes & Noble Nook Bestseller List. We can’t wait to see what Wednesday brings!

Please go directly to In LEAH’S WAKE now to purchase Terri’s book or to the BestSeller For A Day site for more details. If you have questions or comments, feel free to email Terri at terri@tglong.com or visit her blog. You can also catch her on Twitter or Facebook or Goodreads. When she’s not writing or gabbing with friends on a social networking site, she can be found at Boston College, where she teaches creative & nonfiction writing.

Comments welcome! Retweets and mentions greatly appreciated!!

Interested in participating in Bestseller For A Day as a Bonus Buy book? We’re always on the lookout for great indie books to include in our promotions! What’s required? You must be available in eBook format, be on Twitter, and have a blog. Want more info? Contact us at indiebookibc@gmail.comfor more information!

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The Indie Book Blowout powered by IBC and the 99¢ Network!

THIS Labor Day Weekend, September 2-5, prepare your e-reader for Bargain eBook BLISS!

All ebooks! All genres! All at 99 cents! All Labor Day weekend long.

Plus a chance to win a KINDLE just by signing up for the newsletter!

Check it out NOW! www.indiebookblowout.com

Authors, to get your ebook listed in this phenomenal event, just click HERE for details. The cut off date for entrance is August 26th!

IBC Author Workshops

We love the Indie Book Collective! A ton of information for the independent author all in one place. 

There are author workshops (see below), articles, a blog talk radio show, tutorials, tips, author resources and more.

1) SOCIAL MEDIA FOR WRITERS:                 COST: FREE    

TRAINER: RACHEL THOMPSON AKA @RACHELINTHEOC

WHEN: FIRST MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH (UNLESS THERE’S A HOLIDAY; THEN IT’S THE FIRST WEDNESDAY)

DETAILS: This workshop goes over the basics of an author’s social media platform.  The workshop covers your need to brand yourself.  Focusing on Twitter, Rachel goes behind the blue curtain, reviewing all the specifics every other needs to know, not only to increase their reader’s base and create a marketing tool to help sell more books.

Specifics covered include follower/following ratios, content vs. promo tweets and ratios, all things lists, branding, bio/avatar/background review, retweet specifics, shortening links, what “banking” tweets means, third-party apps, memes, #MentionMonday, Klout, and more...you do NOT want to miss this workshop! 

2) FACEBOOK/GOODREADS:                COST: $15 (via PayPal)

TRAINER: AMBER SCOTT AKA @AMBERSCOTTBOOKS

WHEN: FIRST TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH

DETAILS: Amber goes into all the specifics of creating and maintaining a robust and interactive Facebook profile, page and presence– a critically important plank of any author’s writer’s platform! She has lots of tips and tricks for you to help you increase fans that can help turn them into readers. 

In addition, Amber gives a great overview of Goodreads and how it benefits all authors, what it is, and how authors should use it to interact with and gain readers. A great workshop! 

1. BLOGGING (WORDPRESS & BLOGGER)      COST: $15 (via PayPal)

TRAINER: AMBER SCOTT AKA @AMBERSCOTTBOOKS

WHEN: SECOND TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH

DETAILS: Not sure you need a blog to sell books? Wrong! Amber reviews the two most popular free blogging platforms, WordPress and Blogger, and everything you need to get started to have you blogging like a pro in no time! Hints, tips, & insider tricks you can immediately apply.

4) EFORMATTING                       COST: $15 (via PayPal)

TRAINER: AMBER SCOTT AKA @AMBERSCOTTBOOKS

WHEN: THIRD TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH

DETAILS: Formatting an eBook can seem like rocket science, or at least as intimidating. Amber walks you through the steps as she live formats a book then illustrates publishing it to both Amazon AND Smashwords! She’s our IBC resident eBook formatting expert and you want to learn from her. This is definitely a fabulous workshop at a reasonable price you don’t want to miss!

5) AMAZON OPTIMIZATION                    COST: $15 (via PayPal)

TRAINER: CAROLYN MCCRAY AKA @CRAFTYCMC

WHEN: FOURTH TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH (BARRING HOLIDAYS)

DETAILS: Carolyn is a social media and publishing consultant.  She will show you how to optimize your digital sales platform (we concentrate on Amazon, however the techniques we teach can be used across any platform) to maximize your book sales.  After going through the basic process, if time allows, Carolyn will take volunteers to critique their Amazon.com page LIVE. 

You will come out of this value-priced workshop with the tools to transform your digital book sales.

Find out more at IndieBookIBC@gmail.com