Save 25% on 5 powerful marketing services that can blast your book into the stratosphere! The Exclusive Outskirts Press BOOK BLAST Package... Press PLAY to watch the video...  We've taken 5 of our most popular marketing services and packaged them together with a 25% savings!  Now with one easy order you can save money and get your book promotion off to an explosive start!  1. Custom Press Release The custom, professionally-written press release combines information solicited from the author with the professional expertise of our PR writer for a unique, custom release that is focused on the benefits of your book. As the author, you will receive a copy for your records or to further refine and then our News Wire distribution kicks in. Through distribution, your custom press release is: electronically distributed to a database of approximately 100,000 media contacts, newsrooms, industry analysts, and freelance writers who receive daily email listings of press releases which match their filter criteria. In the publishing category these include newspapers (Wall St. Journal, New York Times, USA Today, etc.), magazines (Foreword, Publisher’s Weekly, etc.), and applicable websites and ezines. posted to syndicated news feeds on other web sites through our XML/RSS news feed. Adding this news feed increases exposure to your press release. optimized for search engines indexing. Search engines regularly spider index our press releases. 2. PR Publicist Campaign Sometimes, electronic distribution just isn't enough, even when the distribution network includes all the perks of our News Wire Distribution above. With the PR Publicist Campaign, a publicist will handle further press release distribution of your custom-written press release with additional, targeted distribution and phone call follow-up to key leads. We will e-mail your custom release directly to the personal email in-boxes of book reviewers and editors in print, radio, television, trades, E-zines, syndicates, and wires locally, regionally and nationwide. This additional distribution circuit is exclusively available through the PR Publicist Campaign, and consists of over 21,000 national media contacts. Applicable trade publications selected for your subject are included free of charge. Editors have opted-in and given us appropriate addresses to e-mail the respective releases to. Once your release is distribution throughout the circuit, we will place phone calls to follow-up on your single release with key editors, beat writers, and reviewers to push your press release. This increases the probability of coverage/interest. These are not cold calls. The editors and writers receiving your press release and our phone calls have agreed to receive applicable press releases and therefore value the information and the follow-up phone call, which we perform for you. Then, we will send you every single media lead that results from your publicist campaign. Usually they are in the form of a review copy request but may also be interview requests. The PR Publicist will also send you a recommended cover letter to use when following-up on each lead. You may use it exactly, or alter it as necessary, depending upon each lead. BONUS: For your convenience, we will register you with a clipping service to keep track of all the promotion you receive from your Book Blast Package. Every time your book title is mentioned anywhere on the Internet, you will receive up-to-the minute email notification. This clipping service lasts for as long as you want.  AUTHOR CASE STUDY #1: "My book, Aurora of the Northern Lights, is getting national attention because of it’s beauty and the marketing opportunities available to Outskirts Press Authors. While other authors are having a hard time getting their book reviewed, I have had over 50 requests for review copies of my book. Not to mention dozens of request for interviews. All due to my Outskirts Press PR campaign." Holly Hardin, author of Aurora of the Northern Lights 3. 60 Second Book Video Trailer and Digital Viral Distribution Are you ready to take your book marketing efforts into the 21st Century? Be among the first authors anywhere to use online video marketing. The Book Video Trailer is like a movie trailer for your book. It's cool, it's hip, it's NOW! Music, text, video - we handle the entire production for you You take a look at the first version and make revisions We modify the video once to your specs for the final version Final length is 1 minute for optimal online video sharing We send you the 6mb video file via email Now you have a Book Video to use in any/all of your marketing efforts, however you want But wait! There's more! We also upload your video to popular social networking websites, perfect for enhancing your search engine optimization on keyword searches for your name and book title. Plus, successful viral marketing efforts begin at all the sites where we will distribute your video, including: Yahoo Video MySpace Daily Motion Twitter  Metacafe Blip.tv and more Our book videos are unlike any other book videos available, featuring Hollywood-style production values and a cutting-edge look and feel. Take a look at a sample of our new-and-improved Book Video Trailers with new-and-improved online network distribution that includes Twitter and Facebook! Press PLAY to watch a sample Book Video Trailer from Outskirts Press... Surprising Fact: Book video trailers cost as much as $1,200-$1,800 with other self-publishing companies!  This is an incredible value available only through Outskirts Press. AUTHOR CASE STUDY #2: "Wow! We’ve been amazed at the response to the video trailer for Writing as a Small Business. Barely 48 hours and we’ve had nearly 200 views at the different sights. Personal e-mails are overwhelmingly positive:  “Slick,” “Right on Target,” “Very Professional,” “Fantastic,” and “Best I’ve seen.” The editing process was excellent, the staff followed our suggestions and went a step further. Thank you and your staff for developing this vital marketing tool for your authors. As Writing as a Small Business stresses, a web presence is vital and the wave of the future for marketing and selling books. You all proved it.” – Nash Black, authors of Writing as a Small Business     4. Book Review Submission We have identified 10 book reviewers who, in our experience, have all demonstrated a tendency in the past to review alternatively published and self-published books. With the Book Review Submission Service, included in the Book Blast Marketing Package, you send us 10 copies of your book, and we will administer the submission of your book to these ten book reviewers for you and include a professional cover letter with each copy of the book. As always, remember that no one (including the author nor Outskirts Press) has any control over whether a book reviewer agrees to write a review, decides to share a review that is written, or what the review will say (positive or negative). Participation in the Book Review Submission service in no way implies that a review will be written or that a review will be positive. On the other hand, positive reviews on popular websites and blogs or within popular journals can improve sales and lead to positive word-of-mouth, which is a precursor to the viral publicity and "buzz" that all authors dream of. 5. Personal Marketing Assistant With all these simultaneous promotional tactics going on (custom release, book video, book reviews, PR campaign), what's a busy author to do to keep up with the marketing or follow-up that may result from a viral video, an amazing review, and a potential flurry of interview requests from the publicist campaign? Take it easy, that's wh! The Personal Marketing Assistant can help you with more personal and specific marketing needs focusing solely on your unique book and "platform" as an author. You will get a 5 hour block of time which includes an initial 30 minute phone consultation and can include as much phone consultation time you and your personal marketing assistant feel is warranted to successfully market your book. Here are just some of the many, many things the Personal Marketing Assistant can help you with: PR Publicist Campaign lead follow-up Suggesting advertising venues for your book and placing those ads for you Calling bookstores in your area to pitch your book and/or arrange book signings and much more AUTHOR CASE STUDY #3: "My budget was low, but I listened to Outskirts Press advice in terms of what you do once its published. And lets face it, the point of publishing it is to get it out there. So I invested in the marketing option. My Personal Marketing Assistant phoned me in no time, and considering she is in the US and I am in Australia, I was very impressed. She was supportive and animated and gave me motivation and reassurance that there was someone out there who cared about making my book visible to the world. She wrote a great submission letter and sent it to some radio stations and it worked! I am doing my first radio interview in October. She also sent me lists of other radio stations I can tackle and any other info that would be helpful. In addition to this she set up a blog, as I wouldn’t have had a clue. She created a great article and circulated it, keeping my name and the book in the media. She really has guided me on my journey as a new author. Thank you to Outskirts Press for giving me this valuable option. Without it, it’s a no brainer; you really are on your own!" - Courtney J. Webb, author of Immaculate Deception