• Talk Up Your Book

  • How to Sell Your Book Through Public Speaking, Interviews, Signings, Festivals, Conferences, and More
  • By: Patricia Fry
  • Narrated by: Carol Kilgore
  • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks, and podcasts.
You will get an email reminder before your trial ends.
Audible Plus auto-renews for $7.95/mo after 30 days. Upgrade or cancel anytime.
Talk Up Your Book  By  cover art

Talk Up Your Book

By: Patricia Fry
Narrated by: Carol Kilgore
Try for $0.00

$7.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $19.95

Buy for $19.95

Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.

Editorial reviews

New and struggling authors face a dilemma with finding an audience in an increasingly crowded marketplace, and Patricia Fry provides useful advice on how to grow a greater relationship with readers through book signings, festivals, and social media. Carol Kilgore's agreeably conversational performance enhances Fry's insistence on excellent public speaking skills, helping to highlight its importance in connecting with readers - or, in this case, listeners. Talk Up Your Book is a helpful guide that ranges from the technical aspects of conversing with an audience to the practical matters of crafting press releases and booking high-profile gigs.

Publisher's summary

A unique and significant guide to selling more books through personal appearances and online interviews, brimming with information and resources as well as tips and ideas from nearly two dozen author-speaker professionals.The most powerful tool in your book promotion toolkit is your personality. The fact is that personality sells books. Readers want a relationship with authors of the books they read. If you aren’t a celebrity or a world-known author, it is up to you to create that relationship. Finally, here’s a book that tells you how to develop a greater rapport with your readers, and thus SELL MORE BOOKS through more effective live presentations, well-attended book signings, successful book festival experiences, and more personalized social media techniques. Learn how to get speaking gigs at conferences and how to land and more expertly handle radio, TV, and Internet interviews.This book will teach you how to:

    ,li>Find and create speaking opportunities at appropriate venues
  • Handle yourself skillfully in front of an audience
  • Eliminate your noodle kneesImprove your speaking skills
  • Improve and protect your speaking voice
  • Come up with speech topics for fiction and nonfiction books
  • Organize workshops and present them on your own
  • Get publicity for your presentations
  • Land speaking gigs at conferences
  • Form a bond with audience members Write a pitch letter and press release
  • Create better handouts and use them more effectively
  • Develop better communication skills
  • Attract more people to your book signings
  • Sell more books at book festivals

If you’re ready to take your book promotion to the next level, this thorough guide is for you!

©2012 Patricia Fry (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

What listeners say about Talk Up Your Book

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    3
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    3
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Packed with Information

As a new author starting out in my own DIY book tour, I found this book very valuable. There are ideas for venues, examples of emails, press releases and suggestions for advertising and marketing. I found the book a little heavy in the author's self promotion of her books and I couldn't tell if she felt like she needed to keep telling us about her accomplishments to secure our idea of her expertise or if she was "talking up her books" but all in all, I found many useful ideas in this book. I'm glad I have it to reference as I progress in through my book tour.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!