Sometimes
you wonder if you accomplished anything or lived up to your potential. You
size-up where you are vs your dreams. You compare yourself to others whom you
know and strangers alike. Does your life measure up?
Well,
something that I have been doing for 15 years (as of May 13), may turn out
to be one of my great accomplishments — and it is something I have not been
paid to do nor something that I thought would grow into what it has become. But
its compensation is very, very high.
With over 5,600 posts and 6,400,000 page views,
some awards recognition, and unsolicited positive feedback from random readers,
I believe my blog to be a solid success. It positions me not only to get
more/better clients for my book marketing business, but it also gives me a
platform to help others, and provides me with a creative outlet to workshop my
views and connect with those in the world of books.
I encourage you to read from thousands of
still-relevant, thought-provoking, useful, and interesting blog posts. They
reflect not just book marketing resources and strategies, but bits and pieces
of the events that have defined my life and the world around me for the past
decade and a half.
It covers all of the things that I care
about as it relates to books, including posts on:
*!Books about books
* Book promotion tricks
* Literacy
* Book marketing strategies
* Free Speech
* Quality of books
* How to persuade and influence others
* Better ways of reviewing and cataloguing books
* Bookstore growth
* Author pep talks
* The author marketing mindset
* English language
* Interviews with authors
* Print book supremacy
More recently, I have also written about:
* Limiting AI
* Book bans
* Publishing mergers
In the past 15 years, I have published a few
million words to collectively share my views, advice, strategies, and
resources. I have enough content to publish 20 books.
Who cares what I have to say? Will anyone care
in 50 years? I don’t know, but I am enjoying penning what appears to be
popular, useful, and interesting content. That is all that I can ask for.
Happy Anniversary, BookMarketingBuzzBlog !!
Do You Need Book
Marketing Help?
Brian
Feinblum can be reached at brianfeinblum@gmail.com He is available to help authors like you to promote
your story, sell your book, and grow your brand. He has over 30 years of
experience in successfully helping thousands of authors in all genres. Let him
be your advocate, teacher, and motivator!
About Brian Feinblum
This award-winning blog has generated over
6,400,000 page views. With 5,600+ posts over the past 15 years, it was named
one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs and recognized by Feedspot in 2021
and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.” Copyright 2026.
For
the past three decades, Brian Feinblum has helped thousands of authors. He
formed his own book publicity firm in 2020. Prior to that, for 21 years as the
head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and as the
director of publicity at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many
first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with
best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen,
Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard,
Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C.
Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler.
His
writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s
The Independent (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/whats-needed-to-promote-a-book-successfully) and (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/10-things-my-dog-taught-me-about-marketing-books). He was recently interviewed by the IBPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0BhO9m8jbs
He
hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America several years ago, and
has spoken at ASJA, three times at BookCAMP, Independent Book Publishers
Association, Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod
Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, five
times at Morgan James Publishing Red Carpet, and Connecticut Authors and
Publishers Association. He served as a judge for the 2024 IBPA Book Awards.
His
letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal,
USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester)
and The Washington Post. His first published book was The
Florida Homeowner, Condo, & Co-Op Association Handbook. It
was featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald.
Born
and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids,
and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog.
You
can connect with him at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianfeinblum/ or https://www.facebook.com/brian.feinblum

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