What phase of the publishing process are you in? Are you writing, in the process of making a publishing decision, or knee deep in promotion?

Whatever stage of the journey you find yourself in, Outskirts Press can help by providing suggestions, advice, and recommendations for you and your book. When you register, the first member of your Author Support team will be assigned to help you. There's no obligation, of course.

Sometimes the hardest part of getting on the radio is simply knowing who to call. Imagine if you had the contact information of every major radio show producer in your state. Outskirts Press provides you with everything you need to conduct on-air radio interviews to promote your book from the comfort and convenience of your own home. The majority of on-air interviews can take place over the phone. No travel required.

Your author's center has a list of addresses under the "Free Resources" section for publications that review books, including The Wall Street Journal, ForeWord Magazine, and others.

Most publishers forget about you after your book is published. Not Outskirts Press! At about the same time you receive your free author's copies you will begin to receive Creative, Online Assistance, Coaching, and Help via email from the amazing Outskirts Press Marketing COACH.

There is a lot to do once your book is published. The Marketing COACH shows you the way over a gradual span of time, in order to give you time to complete each suggestion and tip at your own pace and discretion. Do as much or as little as you desire. But the help is here, it keeps coming for YEARS, and it is all included free with your Diamond or Pearl publishing package.

You will discover...

• How to pitch your book to Oprah
• How to submit your book to Google's product database and book program
• How to list your book on Amazon alongside a best-seller
• The addresses of independent bookstores nationwide
• Where to send your book for review
• Which reviewers to avoid (we'll save you hundreds of dollars)
• and much, much more

"I am overwhelmed with how helpful you are with this information. Keep it coming!" - Dr. Faye, The Desperate Daughters of Destiny

Every book you publish with Outskirts Press receives its own marketing webpage, designed to promote and sell your book online. Choose from various colors and multiple lay-outs based upon your publishing package (for example, Diamond authors get 16 different webpage lay-outs to choose from).

Features of your webpage include...

• Change your webpage content and appearance at any time
• Add HTML to make your webpage come alive
• Ruby, Diamond, and Pearl authors may add an audio file enhancement
• You can add a book video to the Media Center section of your webpage, too
• Includes an easy URL to promote (for example outskirtspress.com/yourbook)

See a sample webpage here.

The power of publishing with Outskirts Press becomes truly apparent when you experience true wholesale distribution through sales channels like Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Amazon, and more. The extent of the sales channels available depends upon the publishing package you choose. Click here to compare our packages side-by-side.

With every package except the Emerald, your book will automatically be available through I-Page, the book ordering system available at over 25,000 bookstores and retail chains. It will automatically be listed online with Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other e-retailers. The author's pricing plan determines distribution and you set it yourself. The better your pricing plan, the more distribution opportunities become available. Wholesalers and retailers are not obligated to sell all books and their decision depends in part on the pricing plan you choose. Our recommendation is Price Plan 50.

After your book is published, your personal, pre-formatted Sales Sheet will be available to you immediately. Simply print as many copies as you need. Sales Sheets are instrumental to have as hand-outs at trade shows, book signings, and when pursuing sales and publicity. We have made it easy for you.

Your sales sheet includes...

• All available editions of your book
• Your retail price and distributor discount
• Availability (wholesalers, distributors)
• Your book cover and author image (if supplied)
• Marketing copy and author biography

Best of all, you can modify the content of your sales sheet whenever you want and print professionally-formatted copies in whatever quantity you need from your own computer.

Particularly valuable for professional speakers who have published a book (but a catchy promotional hook for others), the Audio Excerpt option provides the opportunity to record your voice on your free webpage. You can read a 3-minute section of your book, or just explain in your own voice what motivated you to write.

Recording your audio excerpt is as easy as calling a toll-free number and talking into a phone. Your audio excerpt is added to your free author's webpage for others to listen to. This marketing option is free with every Diamond package when selected from the Options Menu during pre-publication and just $99 for our Ruby and Pearl packages.

We will produce and distribute a book video (like a movie trailer) for your book. Your viral marketing campaign will get off to a healthy start with video distribution to YouTube, MySpace, Google Video, Yahoo Video, and many, many more social networking and video sharing websites. Plus, it will be added to the Media Center section of your Outskirts Press webpage.

If you have published multiple books with Outskirts Press, the back page promotion gives you an opportunity to promote your previous book within the pages of your upcoming one.

The best audience for your previous book is the reader of your current one. Only Outskirts Press offers this promotion opportunity.

This marketing option is free with every Diamond package when selected from the Options Menu during pre-publication and just $99 for our Ruby and Pearl packages.

A standard book publication press release will be composed utilizing information from your webpage and conforming to industry standards for full effectiveness.

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, US Today, etc), magazines (Foreword, Publisher’s Weekly, etc.), and applicable websites and ezines.

The press release is also 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.

For maximum distribution, each press release distributed is optimized for search engines indexing. Search engines regularly spider index our press releases.

This marketing option is free with every Diamond package when selected from the Options Menu during pre-publication and just $99 for our Ruby and Pearl packages.

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, US Today, etc), magazines (Foreword, Publisher’s Weekly, etc.), and applicable websites and ezines.

The press release is also 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.

For maximum distribution, each press release distributed is optimized for search engines indexing. Search engines regularly spider index our press releases.

The Outskirts Press PR Publicist does all this for you, and more....

The Ingram Advance is a monthly listing of newly published books that are distributed by Ingram. This slick catalogue is distributed to book buyers, retailers, wholesalers, and other book outlets on Ingram's distribution list. By listing your publication in the Advance, you are announcing your new book to the people who are most interested in buying it. A listing includes all pertinent ordering information and a black/white cover image. The full extent of the listing covers 1/10th of a full page. Since this option is best used for the announcement of the book's publication, it must be selected during the pre-production phase.

Your Advance publication announcement includes....

• A black/white cover image of your book
• Title and byline
• Publisher
• Book synopsis
• ISBN
• Retail Price and wholesale terms

Part of a coordinated promotion campaign includes marketing materials like posters. These are not templates for you to create the materials yourself. These prices include the actual high quality, full-color, marketing materials in quantities of 5, including delivery directly to your house within the continental United States. They are fully customized just for you.

The small poster features:

• 11" x 17" full color poster
• Your cover image is on the front in full cover
• The back is blank

Part of a coordinated promotion campaign includes marketing materials like business cards. These are not templates for you to create the materials yourself. These prices include the actual high quality, full-color, marketing materials in quantities of 500, including delivery directly to your house within the continental United States. They are fully customized just for you.

Business Card details....

• Your cover image is on the front in full cover
• Your contact information is on the back in black/white
• 2" x 3.5" laminated stock

Part of a coordinated promotion campaign includes marketing materials like bookmarks. These are not templates for you to create the materials yourself. These prices include the actual high quality, full-color, marketing materials in quantities of 500, including delivery directly to your house within the continental United States. They are fully customized just for you.

Bookmark details....

• Your cover image is on the front in full cover
• Your book synopsis and webpage URL is on the back in black/white
• 2" x 6" laminated stock

Part of a coordinated promotion campaign includes marketing materials like postcards. These are not templates for you to create the materials yourself. These prices include the actual high quality, full-color, marketing materials in quantities of 500, including delivery directly to your house within the continental United States. They are fully customized just for you.

Postcard details....

• Your cover image is on the front in full cover
• Your book synopsis and webpage URL is on the back in black/white
• 4" x 6" laminated stock

Part of a coordinated promotion campaign includes marketing materials like large posters. These are not templates for you to create the materials yourself. These prices include the actual high quality, full-color, marketing materials in quantities of 5, including delivery directly to your house within the continental United States. They are fully customized just for you.

The large poster features:

• 23" x 35" full color poster
• Your cover image is on the front in full cover
• The back is blank

At various times throughout the year the Marketing COACH will bring co-op marketing opportunities to your attention, and you will have the chance to take part in national advertising for a fraction of what it would cost on your own.

In most cases, co-op Advertising allows you to secure premium, full-color exposure for your book in a high-quality trade publication for a minimal amount of money. Your book will occupy a 2" x 2.5" space along with 11 other Outskirts Press titles within a full-color, full-page ad. Your ad space will include a full color cover image, an abbreviated synopsis, the ISBN, and retail price. All ads include retail and wholesale ordering information. 

Marketing your book through the Co-Op Advertising Program allows you to secure premium, full-color exposure for your book in this premium consumer publication for a minimal amount of money. Your book will occupy approximately a 2" x 2.5" space along with other Outskirts Press titles within a full-color, full-page ad. Your ad space will include a full color cover image of your book, an abbreviated synopsis, the ISBN, and retail price. All books will include retail and wholesale ordering information.

What is Enlightenment is an award-winning quarterly magazine reaching over 75,000 inquisitive, progressive readers who are intelligent, socially conscious, and politically savvy... yet constantly searching for a higher purpose.

While all Outskirts Press books are eligible to participate, those with a religious, spiritual, self-help, or new-age theme are highly preferred, given the nature of the magazine readership.

Our Diamond and Pearl authors with a spiritual subject matter who are already receiving Spring Arbor distribution as a part of their package are particularly welcome.

The CD Media/Press Kit contains everything you need to promote your book, pitch it to the media, and present it to national book buyers.

Your Author Representative will supply you with a template and instructions for devising your own marketing plan and promotional calendar. This is the single most important part of your CD Media/Press kit, as it is what Barnes & Noble Small Press and Borders Acquisitions will look at when determining whether or not to stock your book in their retail stores.

Each CD Media/Press Kit includes....

• Submission instructions and address to Barnes & Noble Small Press
• Submission instructions and address to Borders and Waldenbooks
• 1 full-color marketing plan and promotional calendar
• 5 copies of a professionally written press release
• 5 customized CD-ROMS (see below)
• 5 full-color author sales sheets

Each CD-ROM contains...

• A high-resolution cover scan
• A professionally written press release
• A secure e-book edition of your book
• Author biography and book summary
• A high-resolution author image (if supplied)
• A professional marketing plan and promotional calendar supplied by the author using our provided question/answer template to get you started.

"The CD/Media Kit arrived today. All I can say is WOW! It is by far a very professional layout. I would highly recommend anyone who publishes through Outskirts to purchase the CD/Media Kit. It is money well-worth as far as marketing is concerned." - Cassandra Seamon, A Hundred Days of a Life

See an online sample of the CD Media/Press kit here.

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