In this week’s AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing, Host Dr. Judith Briles reveals the power of using and implementing a crowdfunding campaign for your book—or any project that is in your wheelhouse.

Only 35% of publishing related campaigns. You will get tips on how to be in the minority!

-Crowdfunding stats for 2023. Some are eye-opening.

-Crowdfunding moneys can be used to print your book.

-Crowdfunding moneys can be used to push out a marketing and publicity campaign.

-Crowdfunding moneys can be used to spin off a screenplay.

-Crowdfunding moneys can be used to seed your next project.

-Crowdfunding can build buzz for you, your expertise, your book.

Crowdfunding is work—don’t kid yourself. It will take some time and definitely, energy. You will need to sprinkle in your creativity to bring the spark that becomes a magnet to attract crowdfunding participants you have no previous connection to.

Your listening takeaways include:

-The Who, Where, Why, Why, and When of your campaign.

-What the essential components of every campaign must include.

-The secret sauces that every campaign must have.

-Judith’s cheat sheet for success.

And, of course, much more.

Tune in for lots of ideas and how-to tactics via the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast. Since its inception, over 21,000,000 listeners have downloaded various shows for practical publishing and book marketing guidance. Join me and become a regular subscriber.

In this week’s AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing, Host Dr. Judith Briles opens the door to the #1 way to sell mega cases of your book at full price with immediate payment and not returns. You will get plenty of tips and strategies to get started and build momentum. You can listen in audio and video on YouTube.

Can speaking on your book … your expertise … morph your book sales? Why yes … YES it can. And the sooner you start speaking on both, the better for your influence building, your social media presence, and of course, your book sales. The podcast is available on both audio and video.

Your takeaways include:

-Why you should be speaking on your book and when to start.

-How to structure the perfect sandwich speech.

-When to start charging and what to charge for your speaking fee.

-Why handouts are a must and what each should always include.

-The key components that every presentation needs.

-Why every presentation should have a contract, even free ones.

And, of course, much more.

Tune in for lots of ideas and how-to tactics via the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast. It’s ranked in the Top Ten of bookmarketing campaigns. Since its inception seven years ago, the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast with over 21 million listeners downloading various shows for practical publishing and book marketing guidance. Join me and become a regular subscriber

In this week’s AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing, Host Dr. Judith Briles rolls out a full hour on how to create a book marketing game plan.

Start with:

-The Hows and Whys of creating a book marketing plan.

_The essential elements every book marketing game plan needs.

-How to initiate a direct marketing campaign.

-What the most common mistakes authors make.

-9 things you should be doing within your website.

And, of course, much more.

Tune in for lots of ideas and how-to tactics via the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast. It’s ranked in the Top Ten of bookmarketing campaigns. Since its inception seven years ago, the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast with over 21 million listeners downloading various shows for practical publishing and book marketing guidance. Join me and become a regular subscriber.

In this week’s AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing, Host Dr. Judith Briles invites dives down into the elements of the Why and How to create an Opt-In lead magnet for the website. The goal—to attract new visitors and gather emails of followers. Available in audio only and video on YouTube.

You will take away:

-Why an Opt-In is an essential website element.

-Why types of Opt-Ins work best.

-Where an Opt-In should be places.

-How to create a marketing campaign for an author’s Opt-In.

-When to replace an Opt-In.

-How to create a funnel release of additional info after an Opt-In is downloaded.

And, of course, much more.

Tune in for lots of ideas and how-to tactics via the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast. It’s ranked in the Top Ten of bookmarketing campaigns. Since its inception seven years ago, the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast with over 21 million listeners downloading various shows for practical publishing and book marketing guidance. Join me and become a regular subscriber.

In this week’s AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing, Host Dr. Judith Briles walks authors through the Game Plan to seed and build their book to reach their WHO it’s for and steps needed for success when published.

You will take aways include:

-Essential components create your book.

-Narrowing down the WHO your book is for.

-Identify what the value and benefits are for the ideal reader.

-Writing tips to start the author’s juices percolating.

-Identifying your costs.

-Supporting the author and book platforms.

-Developing the author in YOU.

-Create your Ultimate Book Publishing Game Plan

And, of course, much more.

Tune in for lots of ideas and how-to tactics via the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast. It’s ranked in the Top Ten of bookmarketing campaigns. Since its inception seven years ago, the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast with over 21 million listeners downloading various shows for practical publishing and book marketing guidance. Join me and become a regular subscriber.

Judith Briles The Book Shepherd and Rebecca Finkel, Book Design expert, deliver a fast hour of essential author DOs and DON’Ts for author success in 2025 on the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast.

Your takeaways include:

• How tariffs will impact your book production.

• What’s happening with printing costs.

• Why authors should expect to see book printing costs increase.

• Amazon is now allowing “sharp” images in ebooks—meaning authors may want to redo their Kindle eBooks to sharpen color and images within.

• Tips for cross-selling with other authors in bookstores and private events.

• AI censoring of images.

• Domain registration sites censoring words.

AND much more.

Don't miss this episode of the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Pubishing podcast...ranked in the top 10 of book marketing podcasts.

Tune in for lots of ideas and how-to tactics via the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast. It’s ranked in the Top Ten of bookmarketing campaigns. Since its inception seven years ago, the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast with over 21 million listeners downloading various shows for practical publishing and book marketing guidance. Join me and become a regular subscriber.

Judith Briles The Book Shepherd and John Kremer Book Marketing expert, deliver a fast hour of 10 plus strategies to deliver book marketing success in 2025 on the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast.

Your takeaways include:

-Overall strategies to leap forward.

-Why every author should have a newsletter.

-Tips for creating your own Summit and why you should.

-How to start your marketing offline.

-Why magazines are still hot and how to target/pitch to them.

-Why you should reach for a national TV show.

-Why being a podcast guest is a must do and two sources to use.

AND much more. Don't miss this episode of the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Marketing podcast...ranked in the top 10 of book marketing podcasts.

Book Marketing Timelines

for Authors from Writing to Launch and Beyond

In this week’s AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing, Host Dr. Judith Briles delivers a solo hour to create book marketing timelines from the time you start writing to the launch date and beyond. It’s a note taking hour with Judith for a lively and informative hour to set the stage for author success.

You will take away:

-What the essential phases are on an author’s timeline—before writing; after writing; after publishing.

-What you should be doing 3 to 6 months before publishing.

-When branding should start.

-Key elements author websites should have.

-Key elements authors should have in a media kit on website.

-Tips for finding early book reviewers and bloggers.

-Areas authors should be doing while a book is being edited.

-Essential things to do two weeks before launch date.

-Tips for things to follow up with post book launch.

And, of course, much more.

Tune in for lots of ideas and how-to tactics via the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast. It’s ranked in the Top Ten of bookmarketing campaigns. Since its inception seven years ago, the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast with over 21 million listeners downloading various shows for practical publishing and book marketing guidance. Join me and become a regular subscriber.

In this week’s AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing, Host Dr. Judith Briles invites Dan Miller, the copyright detective, to join her for a lively and informative hour of how to protect your book

You takeaways include:

• Copyright Insights for Authors in the Age of AI.

• Copyright rules for registering a book that is AI generated.

• What is AI generated and AI assistance and why authors must know the difference.

• What three words should be included on your copyright page.

• How the Copyright Office determines if a book that used AI can be copyrighted … or not.

• What the Copyright Office wants to know about the use of AI of a copyright registration application.

• What 5 things authors can’t copyright.

And, of course, much more.

Tune in for lots of ideas and how-to tactics via the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast. It’s ranked in the Top Ten of bookmarketing campaigns. Since its inception seven years ago, the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast with over 21 million listeners downloading various shows for practical publishing and book marketing guidance. Join me and become a regular subscriber.

In this week’s AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing, Host Dr. Judith Briles invites Jane Wood, author of Schools: A Niche Market for Authors joins Dr. Judith Briles for a lively and informative hour of how to get your books into schools; who to contact; strategies to get schools to buy your books for all classrooms; along with tips to engage students from the get-go.

You will take away:

-What the most important criteria is when trying to market books to schools.

-How to determine if a book reinforces a school’s curricula.

-When it’s time to develop additional educational resources for a book.

-Learn the two most important resources to contact at the schools.

-Strategies on ways to make money selling to schools.

-How to get classrooms to buy full sets of books.

-How to make money three ways when working with schools.

-Tips on developing presentations for students.

-How to develop dynamic presentations for an author visit.

-Identify book sales opportunities to education-related groups.

And, of course, much more.

Tune in for lots of ideas and how-to tactics via the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast. It’s ranked in the Top Ten of bookmarketing campaigns. Since its inception seven years ago, the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast with over 21 million listeners downloading various shows for practical publishing and book marketing guidance. Join me and become a regular subscriber.