Writers Bureau Correspondence Course Recommended

Today's post is a casual review/recommendation of a course, rather than a book. It came to me from a trusted fellow writer from the UK, Mark Logie, and because so many of the subscribers to this blog are writers and publishers, I thought it would be a service to post his letter of recommendation.

Here is the metadata:

General info from:  The Writers Bureau (www.writersbureau.com ), Manchester, UK
Course info:  www.sell-book-course.com
Course type: home study
Price: £274  (about $470)
Here is his note to me, reprinted with Mark's permission:

Dear  Carolyn,
In The Frugal Book Promoter you stress the importance of  authors educating themselves in marketing books. I found the Writers  Bureau correspondence course “How to Market Your Book” very  useful.
When I took this course  (November 2013 – May 2014) there were a small  number of mistakes (such as a few out-of-date Web links, and one or two  features on Amazon it suggested using that had changed or been  discontinued), but it did motivate me to start a blog, which I had been  putting off
because I was finding it very difficult. There was excellent  support
from my tutor too.
With very best wishes,

Mark Logie

More about Mark:
Mark Logie is the award-winning author of On the Road to  Infinity and Deadfall, in which a young tearaway leads the battle to prevent the world's worst terrorist attack. It is written for young people twelve years and over. Find it on Amazon. Thanks to inspiration offered by good books and courses on marketing books, he now blogs at Goodreads.

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Spanish and English Book Teaches About Squiggly Things and More

Title: She Doesn't Want the Worms - Ella no quiere los gusano

Author: Karl Beckstrand

Illustrator: David Hollenbach

LCCN: 2010910827

BISAC:JUV002140, JUV019000, JUV020000, JUV028000, JNF020010, JUV054000·Soft cover picture Book: 24 pages, 8"x 10"

Suggested List Price: $3.25 ebook, $14.95 retail

Publisher: Premio Publishing & Gozo Books (June 2011) Premiobooks.com

Languages: English, Spanish, or bilingual

ISBN bilingual:978-0-9776065-2-8, Engl: 978-0615492780, Span: 978-0977606573, eBiling: 978-1452485263, eSpan: 978-1452471020

Awards: Top 10 "Best Books" of 2011:

"She will not clutch, nor even touch, the bumblebee I gave her. The fly, she hates (but tolerates it ... like a sour neighbor)." This striking bilingual exploration of a little girl's aversion to all things wiggly works effortlessly on every level. Operating as a Spanish and/or English rhyming and grammar lesson--plus a humorous, yet gross, index of bugs, including beetles, salamanders, moths, and spiders, among others--and presenting museum-quality, collage-like artwork, this title raises the bar for all children's picture books. Ages two and up. - ForeWord Reviews Aug. 2011

Activities include: Counting/finding, pronunciation guide for trying out the names of creepy crawlies in Spanish and English. For Ages 3+

 

More About the Author: Karl Beckstrand works with the Utah

 Humanities Council "Author on Main Street" (bilingual lecturer). Learn more about him at  KarlBeckstrand.com .

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The New Book Review is blogged by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers. It is a free service offered to those who want to encourage the reading of books they love. That includes authors who want to share their favorite reviews, reviewers who'd like to see their reviews get more exposure, and readers who want to shout out praise of books they've read. Please see submission guidelines on the left of this page. Reviews and essays are indexed by genre, reviewer names, and review sites. Writers will find the search engine handy for gleaning the names of small publishers. Find other writer-related blogs at Sharing with Writers and The Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In Editor. As a courtesy to the author, please tweet and retweet this post using this little green retweet widget :