July 2015 Issue

Hi Gang,
Sarasota Authors Connection
will meet Wednesday, July 8th, 6pm, at Fruitville
Library, 100 Coburn Rd., one-half mile east of I-75 on the corner of Fruitville and Coburn Road.
Web Master, Joe Jacobson is the guest speaker and his topic is: "Promoting Your Website with
Amazon and Goodreads Tools." Learn how to place your blog feed on your authors page at
Amazon and Goodreads, and how to place a live feed of your Amazon and Goodreads reviews
on your website.
This will be the last club meeting and newsletter for the Summer. No meetings in August
and September. Club Meetings will resume on October 14th with guest speakers Dennis
Blanchard and Donna Gould, discussing self-publishing with Create-Space.
Sarasota Authors Connection Book Fair is November 7th. Vending space for the event is
booked. Have a profitable and event-filled Summer.
July Presentation
"Promote Your Website with Amazon and Goodreads Tools"
In this hands-on presentation, we will look at two
strategies to promote your author website and your books.
1. Placing your blog feed on your author page at Amazon
and Goodreads. If you do any blogging on your author
website, you’ll want to send your published posts
throughout the Internet, including social media and the
major book sites. In this presentation, you’ll learn how
easy it is to have your blog posts show up on your Amazon
and Goodreads author pages.
Joe Jacobson
2. Placing a live feed of your Amazon and Goodreads reviews on your website. Most book
marketers agree that showing off your favorable reviews for your book will lend social proof to
new readers to also purchase your book. Amazon and Goodreads are two sources of reviews that
should appear alongside your book on your website. Accomplishing this involves a couple more
steps which will be demonstrated live.
In addition, if we have time, I will take any of your questions about any problems you
may be having with your WordPress site. Let’s focus on questions that will be of benefit to the
whole group. Joe Jacobson
Wordpress Websites For Authors
http://wordsandwriters.com
mailto:[email protected]
941-587-4530
Author of:
How To Build Your WordPress Author Website
The Authors Connection Radio Show, hosted by Susan Klaus, is a one-hour web
radio show and can be heard every Tuesday from 11 AM to 12 PM and on Thursdays from 9 to
10 AM on radioearnetwork.com. The show consists of interviews with local authors as well as
best selling authors such as John Lutz, Mary Jane Clark, Lisa Unger, Karen Rose, Michael
Connolly, Stuart Kaminski, Tom Corcoran, David Hagberg, Tim Dorsey and others. If you have
a book and would like to be interviewed, please contact Susan Klaus, the show director at
[email protected]. Susan conducts her interviews at the Coffee Loft, 5025 N. Tamiami Trail
in Sarasota. We are pleased to announce that
Authors Connection Radio Show is one of the
longest running author shows on radio. Radio
Ear Network has a listening audience of 18
million in 148 countries worldwide.Interviews
are taped at the Coffee Loft at 5025 N Tamiami
Trail on the second Wednesday of the month.
July 2015 Radio Show
Guests & Air Dates:
July 7
July 14
July 21
July 28
Dr. Josesh Koob & Roy E. Ault
Diane Worthen & Virginia Crane
Michael Sfakiands & Lela Jean Clendainiel
Katherine Habour & George Mindling
August & September
Aug. 4
Aug. 11
Aug. 18
Aug. 25
Aug. 31
Mary Ann Lundeberg & Bohdan Szuprowicz
Louis Siegel & Kevin Mooney
L. G. Rivera & Pam Storrs
Authors Connection
Angelina Assanti & Sabrina Adams
2015
Meeting Schedule
RodneyDigrattdo
September - Reruns
August/September
October
November
December
No Meetings
Summer Vacation!
14th - Wednesday
16th - Monday
No Meeting
Susan Klaus
The newest review for Klaus's second thriller, Shark
Fin Soup,"...the characters are richly developed and the topic
is timely and powerful. Let's be clear: Shark Fin Soup is a
must-read for this summer" Scene Magazine.
Klaus's short story, The Sound of Surf is also in the
June issue of Scene Magazine. Shark Fin Soup; 99 Cent
E-Book Special on Shark Fin Soup in all formats between
June 28 to July 12. With the re-release of JAWS, Sharkweek
on the Discovery channel 7/5, and Sharkcon 7/11 in Tampa,
get into the spirit with this shark-saving thriller.
Flight of the Golden Harpy is a finalist for
a President's Silver or Gold Book Award
presented by the 2015 Florida Author and
Publishers Association.
Madonna Dries Christensen
Madonna Dries Christensen's novel, Patricide,
was a finalist in the 2015 National Indie Excellence
Book Awards, in the category "Faction" (fiction
based on fact). A three time Pushcart Prize
Nominee, Madonna's work has appeared in more than
100 publications around the world. Patricide, and
other books by Madonna, are available at
http://www.amazon.com/Madonna-DriesChristensen/e/B00JAFBP78 . Visit her website at
www.doorwaysmemoirs.com
Bohdan O. Szuprowicz is evaluating
Amazon Advertising Campaigns feature using
several of his E-Books already published on
Amazon Kindle. The Advertising feature
displays a small ad of your book cover, price,
review rank, and link to Amazon sales point.
Its value lies in the fact that only readers looking
for a book are contacting Amazon and if your
title or blurb has similar words to what they are
keying in your ad is displayed. If a reader clicks
on your ad you pay Amazon a small fee starting
at $0.05 cents per click. Otherwise your ad is
shown free. You compete however with other
promoters like you who may offer higher click rate.
Szuprowicz used 4 of his E-Titles to test the system. So far his ads appeared in about 27,000
cases and resulted in 27 clicks at a total cost of $ 3.34. This suggests that you need about 1000
displays of your cover to get one interested click. This Amazon feature appears to be a good tool
to test your covers and titles. The feature does not waste time on Twitter or Facebook members
who may not be looking for books and provides instant demographics and results. Szuprowicz is
testing all his E-Titles to compare their attraction to readers.
Most of his E-Titles on Amazon Kindle can be evaluated using the link below:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=node%3D154606011&fieldkeywords=Szuprowicz
Miami Book Fair International
"The books are coming.
And the readers and writers will follow, as they do by the hundreds of thousands every year for
the Miami Book Fair International, an eight-day literary party in November."
This will be the 31st year for the nation's finest literary festival. Scheduled to begin
Sunday, November 15th, and conclude on Sunday, November 22nd, with three days of Street
Fair and Festival of Authors. Details available at http://www.miamibookfair.com/
Selby Public Library
Selby Library needs volunteers! Start by meeting the
staff and attending an information session and
orientation. Call 861-1156 for more information.
Remember to check out
http://suncat.co.sarasota.fl.us/libraries/selby.aspx
for all the events happening at Selby Public Library.
For additional information concerning any of the
events, or if you have questions about the library,
contact Vera Neumann-Wood at [email protected].
All Library events at www.scgov.net/library.
FAPA Annual Conference
August 7-8, 2015
Orlando
Mystery Writers Key West Fest
August 14-16, 2015
Key West
Florida Heritage Book Festival
September 24-26, 2015
St. Augustine
Festival Of Reading
October 25, 2015
St. Petersburg
Sanibel Island Writers Conference
November 5-8, 2015
Sanibel Island
Sarasota Authors Connection Book Fair
November 7, 2015
Sarasota
Miami Book Fair International
November 15-22, 2015
Miami
Marty Ferris
Pamela Storrs
"The key to the success of any author group is communication
and shared goals among its members."
Local Author, Writing & Critique Groups
Don’t forget to check out the local writers groups for information about festivals, conferences,
critique sessions and workshops in our area.
Sarasota Fiction Writers – (Sarasota) Contact Jerry Keane, President, [email protected]
and visit their website at sarasotafw.wordpress.com
Florida Writers Association/Sarasota Branch – (Nokomis) Contact George Mindling
[email protected]. FWA blogspot www.fwasarasota.blogspot.com
Suncoast Writers Guild - (Englewood/Venice) Contact Ann Favreau, President, at
[email protected] and visit their website at suncoastwriters.com
Florida Writers Association/Manatee Branch – (Bradenton) Contact Dona Lee at 748-6865 or
email [email protected]
Peace River Center for Writers – (Punta Gorda) Contact Dawn at [email protected] or call
941-637-3514. Visit their website at peaceriverwriters.org
Venice Writers' Group - (Venice) Contact Roger Sakowski, Facilitator, at
[email protected]. Visit their website hosted at http://acuitygroup.org.
Englewood Authors - (Englewood/Venice) Contact Edwin Ellis at [email protected] or call
941-662-6867. Visit their blogspot at englewoodauthors.blogspot.com.
Florida Sisters In Crime - (Jacksonville) - Contact Susan Kiernan-Lewis, President, at
[email protected]. Visit the website at floridasistersincrime.wordpress.com/
If you are an author, or soon to be author, and would like to join Sarasota Authors
Connection and receive our monthly newsletter, please email Club Secretary, Paula Counce
at [email protected] , and submit your name, phone number and email address. There
are no dues.
The Club's purpose is to enlighten authors about book promotion, publishing, and other
related activities - authors helping authors. Members are encouraged to submit their book
information: new releases, signings, publishing option, awards, as well as conferences, events,
writing contests, and articles. Please send your information for the newsletter to Paula prior to
the last week of each month.
No meetings, or newsletters, for August, September and December. December is our
Christmas Party.
It is the Club's policy that we do not use our membership email list to send out
individual or private announcements. All information must be received prior
to the last week of each month for it to appear in the next club newsletter.
"A writer never has a vacation.
For a writer's life consists
of either writing,
or thinking about writing."
` Eugene Ionesco
See you at the meeting,
Susan Klaus
President,
Sarasota Authors Connection
Matrix Thoroughbred Farm
Myakka City, Florida