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2nd Bedside Reading Book Marketing Zoom Event

Join us!
Topic: It's all about selling your book!

Wednesday, October 6, 2021
1pm - 2pm PST / 4pm - 5pm EST

We learned from our last event that 70% of our authors want to learn how to:

• Sell more books
• Get their books into bookstores and libraries
• Learn new marketing tools to help book sales

So, we are bringing in the experts so our authors can ask them anything about selling books!

Lee Wind, Director of Education and Programs, Independent Book Publishers Association
As the director of education and programs (book marketing programs) for the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Lee loves empowering indie publishers to have their voices heard. As an author, he published the crowd-funded young adult novel “Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill” celebrated by Publishers Weekly as an Indie Success Story and has two books publishing from IBPA member indie presses in 2021, the middle grade nonfiction “No Way, They Were Gay? Hidden Lives and Secret Loves” (Lerner) and the picture book “Red and Green and Blue and White” (Levine Querido) which has received two starred reviews. Learn more about Lee and his books at www.leewind.org. Find out more about IBPA at www.ibpa-online.org

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Kim Sakwa, Bestselling Indie Author

I always wanted to be a writer. Not just any writer, a writer like those I had seen in pictures. The ones who sat alone at a table or desk with freshly inked paper stacked next to their typewriter. That image evoked a feeling I can still taste. They looked at peace and at home in those pictures. I wanted to be them. And I knew deep down that that was where I belonged. I still carry those images in my mind. They’re vivid snapshots forever seared in my memory—the smile on their faces, the gleam in their eyes, and the armor of their craft. I call it armor because it was my protection. My imagination served as that armor for most, if not all, of my life. Books and reading too, introduced to me when I was still quite young. Novels I read eagerly day after day and my computer and stories much later. I began reading fiction at an early age. I loved teen romance, if you could even call it that. They were just sweet stories that I read by the dozens. Then, when I was a bit older I found Sidney Sheldon and Jackie Collins—and my life changed forever. I still get chills thinking of those books and stories. Romance remains at the top of my reading list today. Julie Garwood, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Cherry Adair, and Karen Marie Moning are only a few of my favorite authors. I realize now that while my imagination served me well for years, sharing my world with others is what I was truly meant to do. I know this because it’s where I feel most alive. Sitting at my desk, with freshly inked paper stacked next to my laptop, is my favorite place to be. Today it’s a safe, freeing place, filled with joy. It’s been a long hard journey, but my soul is finally home. And you are always welcome.​
Folllow Kim on Instagram @authorkimsakwa

Keri-Rae Barnum, President, New Shelves Books

Keri-Rae Barnum is the President of New Shelves Books, one of the largest book sales and marketing content providers in the US. With 15 years of extensive marketing experience, Keri is currently enjoying the ability to pair her lifelong love of books with her sales and promotion skills. She believes in helping authors – both self and traditionally published – take their book marketing and author branding to the next level.
She is a trusted authority in book marketing, speaking to numerous writing and publishing groups each year. Her frequent collaborations include being a featured marketing expert on Apex Authors, as well as a regular contributor on thebookdesigner.com.
Her career has been largely focused on working with bookstores and libraries as well as digital and Print On Demand platforms. She loves teaching authors “the ropes” and spends a large portion of her time working on education and sharing her knowledge with the writing and publishing communities. A favorite venue for this is the New Shelves Books advice vlog, FreeAdviceFridays.com.
Outside of office hours Keri spends her time wrangling her two children and an ancient English Bulldog with the help of her husband. A military veteran spouse and avid cook, she enjoys traveling as often as possible; but when she can’t hop on a plane, a good book is her favorite escape.
​Follow Keri on Instagram at @keribarnum for a glimpse into her other life.

Plus, Bedside Reading's special friends:
Kendra Murray and Ralph Scott, Audiobook Producers, SqueakyCheese Productions

Kendra Murray
What if the girl next door got hold of a microphone? And nobody was around to hear her? Would there be a sound? As it turns out, quite a few.
Kendra Murray, the voiceover actor who is never without an audience. Even if she comprises all of the voices in the room! In fact, you’d swear she was a lot of people. One after the other.
And that’s what she can do for your next project: become someone else. Become who you need her to be. Become almost anyone you want. On the spot.
Kendra Murray validates your commercial spot, your corporate announcement, or your dramatic character role with an authenticity that makes listeners trust her, which is really the heart of what every professional intends to achieve. Kendra does it well…and makes the session fun. Funny, too. Her clients think she’s the funniest event in the session, but very serious when the RECORD light illuminates.
At which point, Kendra illuminates the room.
Ralph Scott
​An award-winning producer with a get-it-done (with a smile) attitude, Ralph Scott produces audiobooks, audio theatre, scripted entertainment commercial spots, or pretty much anything within the live or recorded audio arena.
The characters Ralph creates on the spot (we lost count just north of 83) are only bested by the number of children’s verses he has written since he was handed a cocktail napkin on a dare back in 1993. (That would be just north of 1,700.) Give him three words and he’ll compose a witty poem for you in under five minutes.
Give him a studio and your manuscript and he’ll vibrantly breathe life into any character you craft.
Together with co-narrator Kendra Murray, Ralph turns the studio into a theatre for the ear. Be sure to grab a chair the next time you download a Murray and Scott audiobook production. And dim the lights. And don’t forget the popcorn.
You’ll swear you’re in a movie.

RSVP TODAY TO BE ENTERED TO WIN!
One lucky attendee will be randomly chosen at the end of the event
​to win a book placement in one of our luxury hotels!