Promo Day!

Promo Day 2009, a series of online workshops about book marketing and promotion, will be held Saturday, May 9. For information and registration, see http://jolinsdell.tripod.com/promoday and http://promoday.blogspot.com/

If you're a writer with titles to plug, this is an opportunity to learn about the business side of books and engage in BSP - Blatant Self Promotion - which will be welcomed and encouraged. If you're an avid reader interested in communicating with authors, join hundreds of others in doing so through the various chatrooms that day.

Schedule of OnlineWorkshop/Seminars (times are Central European Time, 14:00 is 8 am Eastern Time USA, 7 am Central.). Yours truly will offer a chatroom session at 11 am Eastern, 10 am Central):

14:00 Lael Johnson - Blogging and Journaling
15:00 John Evans - The Age of Networking: Tips to Survive in Today's information Age
16:00 Karina Fabian - Marketing for Beginners
17:00 (10 am Central Time USA) John Desjarlais - Finding an Agent
18:00 Carolyn Howard Johnson - Query Letters as Promotion: Make Them Picture Perfect!
19:00 Elysabeth Eldering- Hosting Authors on Virtual Book Tours
20:00 Joyce Anthony - Promoting with Twitter
21:00 Ron Berry - Character websites
22:00 Devon Ellington - Creating and maintaining a successful writer's blog.
23:00 Carol Denbow - Technical Aspects