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An author who is a member of eWomenPublishingNetwork takes with her outstanding promotional opportunities when she seeks a traditional publisher. If you are working on a book proposal, here is what you might say about your author platform because of your membership:
I have developed a strong platform through years of networking and speaking in several distinct arenas. As an author member of eWomenPublishingNetwork, I will:
- Have an interview on the eWomenNetwork radio show, on the ABC affiliate, 820 WBAP. This radio show is the largest businesswomen’s radio program in the country, with an average of 400,000 listeners every quarter-hour of broadcast.
- Have the opportunity to speak at the 100-plus eWomenNetwork chapters nationwide that gather monthly in groups of 50 to 100. Each chapter sends out four notices of the event to their database, prior to the speaker’s appearance. The size of the database averages 2,000 people per chapter. If only half of the chapters are included in a promotional tour, it still represents over 360,000 impressions of me and my book.
- Be considered to speak at the eWomenNetwork International Conference. The conference averages 2,000 attendees each year.
- Be considered for the International Speaker Showcase at the eWomenNetwork Conference. Over 200 eWomenNetwork chapter Managing Directors and major corporate event planners attended the Showcase at the last national conference.
- Be listed and promoted in the eWomenPublishingNetwork.com Online Bookstore, including a professionally written book review, on a site getting over 200,000 hits a day.
- Be honored at a Book launch party.
- Have my book-related articles promoted in over 60 women's regional magazines through their magazine partners, including the Women's Regional Publishing Association (WRPA).
- Have a professional book review appear and articles promoted in the eWomenNetwork eMagazine. Over 500,000 professionals receive the magazine.
What One Author Says About the eWomenPublishingNetwork Author Platform:
“When I first sent my book proposal to Wiley, their initial response was: ‘Love the concept, but can you get some promotional commitments?’ They were most interested in my ability to leverage association memberships and existing relationships to get a mention or review of my book in e-mail blasts.
That was where eWomenPublishingNetwork came in. When I followed up with her and told her about the platform I could utilize through the network, she was impressed. The number of contacts possible through the eWomenNetwork eMagazine alone was more than all the other commitments I was able to get.
Four weeks later I received an offer from them along with a nice-sized advance, unheard of for an ‘unknown’, first-time author.”
-Julie Lenzer Kirk, author, Parentpreneur Edge: What Parenting Teaches You About Running a Business (John Wiley & Sons, 2007)
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