Literary agents agree. Editors at Big Six publishing houses agree. Bestselling authors agree. If you want to publish a book, you need to use social media.

But what is social media? How can YOU use it to sell your book-in-progress?  Why have a blog, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn? How will you write your book if you are always online? And who really cares about social media metrics?

For the answers to these questions and more, attend Swenson Book Development, LLC’s Social Media Strategies for Authors Workshop where you will learn how authors use social media to:

• write
• research
• build a profitable audience platform
• market, promote, publicize, and sell books
• attract invitations for speaking engagements and guest appearances and
• to connect directly to readers who will purchase your book

When:  Saturday, January 21, 2012, 1 – 2:30 p.m.

Where:  Buffalo Street Books, 215 S. Cayuga Street, Ithaca, NY

Facilitator: Jill Swenson, Ph.D.  Swenson Book Development, LLC

Cost:  $40 per person ($30 for bookstore cooperative share-owners)

Register:  Email buffalostreetcooperative@gmail.com with your name, phone, and workshop of choice

Advance registration required

Workshop limited to 20 participants

Keeping History Alive—an Interview with Bett Fitzpatrick

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In the pre-dawn hours of February 18, 1942, three American warships zigzagged in convoy along the south coast of Newfoundland. Caught in a raging blizzard, the three ships ran aground on one of the most inhospitable stretches of coastline in the world—less than three miles apart, within eight minutes of each other. The Wilkes freed herself. The Truxton and Pollux could not. Fighting frigid temperatures, wild surf, and a heavy oil slick, a few sailors, through ingenuity and sheer grit, managed to gain shore—only to be stranded under cliffs some 200 feet high. From there, local miners mounted an arduous rescue mission. In Hard Aground, based onRead more…