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Book Launch Party UPDATE (for my friend Nathan’s book – but read it cos there’s good info you need to know!)

I updated my earlier post about a launch party on Facebook I was attending/guest hosting/featured guesting tonight. Here’s the earlier stuff, followed by an update – where it says UPDATE

Nathan Van Coop’s book came out today and he’s hosting a Facebook launch party – for which I will be appearing in about 10 minutes.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1719072161698790/?active_tab=posts

You can hop over and chat with me there, and win some cool stuff, too! (This link will stay active for quite a while after the party ends.)

Just as important, I’ll be learning how these work by attending as a co-host or whatever I am (Featured Guest), and YOU can learn by attending. Let’s see what all the hoopla is about so we can do these for OUR books!

See ya there! Stop by and say Hi!

Dan

UPDATE:

Okay, so my shift just ended. Actually, it ended about 30 minutes a go, maybe more.

The verdict?

IT WAS FUN!

I’d do it again, and all of you should, too.

The host was Nathan Van Coops, and he and I have run into each other at local book promotion stuff, so I knew him a little. Nice guy, hard worker. His books get LOTS of reviews, so I wanted to stay on his radar. When he asked me to join his launch party, I accepted immediately. Then I wondered what the heck I was supposed to do.

Well, here is the line up and some of the stuff he had going on. Skim through it and I’ll see ya at the bottom.

Details: THE DAY AFTER NEVER is coming!

Welcome to the online launch party for the latest book by Nathan Van Coops. On July 12th you will be able to meet special guest authors, win fantastic free books and prizes, and mingle with fellow readers. We’ll have a couple fun rounds of time travel trivia and somone will even win a Kindle Paperwhite!
The party will be going on all day with guest authors from the UK as well as US so we can get everyone in on the excitement.
Special guest authors scheduled to appear currently include:
Rysa Walker-The Chronos Files Series, Michael J. Sullivan-The Riyria Chronicles, April White-Immortal Descendents Series, T. Ellery Hodges-The Never Hero, and lots more! See below for the event schedule and contest rules. Let’s get ready to party!

Amazon US
https://www.amazon.com/Day-After-Never-Travel-Adventure-ebook/dp/B01HJDDOJO

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01HJDDOJO

Contest Rules:

WIN A KINDLE CONTEST: Share a post about this event or my book on your social media with the hashtag #TheDayAfterNever from now until the end of the party and you will be entered to win a Kindle Paperwhite!

AUTHOR GIVEAWAYS: Throughout the party, guest authors will be stopping by to talk about their work and also give out prizes. Scroll through the discussion thread to find the different author giveaways and answer their questions to win the prizes!

NAME A CHARACTER CONTEST: Comment or ask questions during any of my live Facebook videos during launch day to be entered to win the contest. The winner will be able to name a character in my next book! (Fun fact: The character of Traus Gillian in The Chronothon, and the character of Mira in The Day After Never were both named by previous contest winners.)

TIME TRAVEL TRIVIA: Submit a correct response to any of the time travel trivia questions and you’ll be entered to win a $50 Amazon gift card. (3 gift cards will be given away for trivia winners. One $50 prize and 2 additional $25 prizes.)

BONUS PRIZES: Throughout the launch I will be posting bonus prizes like signed copies of my books, hats, and even Chronothon compasses. Answer the bonus questions to win!

AUTHOR APPEARANCE SCHEDULE (All times in US EST)
12:45PM LIVE update by Nathan Van Coops

1:00pm Mark Speed (Doctor How)
1:30pm Jim Duncan (Blood Republic)
2:00pm Jodi Taylor (The Chronicles of St. Mary’s)
2:30pm E. Rose Sabin (Deathright)
3:00pm Mikey Campling (Trespass, Outcast)
3:30pm Micah Joel (Broken Tablet)
4:00pm Jule Owen (The House Next Door Series)

5:00PM LIVE update by Nathan Van Coops

5:30pm T. Ellery Hodges (The Never Hero)
6:00pm Bryan Cohen (Ted Saves The World Series)
6:30pm April White (The Immortal Descendants Series)
7:00pm Michael J. Sullivan (Age of Myth)

7:30pm Dan Alatorre (The Navigators)

8:00pm LIVE Q&A with Nathan Van Coops

8:30pm Rysa Walker (The CHRONOS Files)
9:00pm H.J. Lawson (Infinite Time)
9:30pm Jonathan Kile (The Grandfather Clock)
10pm LIVE Update and Kindle Giveaway.
10:15-11pm Wrap up and hang out session.

Yeah, that’s a LOT of stuff!

I’ll ask Nathan later, because I’m pretty sure he’s running on pure adrenaline right about now, but he said the success of the launch lies in the preparation. I can see that just from the guest list.
Each guest has to be signed up and they have – hopefully – a following. That’s the biggest thing as far as I can tell.

More people at the party

= better party

= better launch.

Meanwhile, his book went from pretty good ranking in preorders to really good ranking to #1 in some categories. So I’m sold. I’ll do book launches.

The question is, HOW to do the setup right so it goes off well?

What’s the key? Or keys?
  • Well, getting LOTS and LOTS of people – author people – to be guest hosts is one key, and
  • having nice prizes to give away is another key, and
  • the third key is promoting the heck out of it.
There are different ways to promote and to give prizes, and some aren’t free, but we’ll get into that later – after I get Nathan to tell me his secrets.
Meanwhile, he admits the best way to do one of these for your book launch is to be a guest host for a few other people’s book launches. And I can see that, because I learned a lot being a guest host, but I can see assembling the guest list was probably lot of work, and so was the promoting before hand.
BEFOREHAND.

What did I have to do?

  • It took an hour of my time tonight, but I think I got some good exposure as guest host (it’s Nathan’s night, remember).
  • I was working hard to get people involved. BUT!
  • I should have invited everybody WAY earlier. Lesson learned. They have a button to help you invite your friends; I should have invited everybody days ago or maybe last week.
  • That said, I got the 3rd highest guest host comments

But all in all, it starts with a great book – yours – and the desire to put in the effort to make it successful.

That means coming out of your little writer mole hole, and making talky talk on the internet with people types. You can do that. Probably. And if you can’t, maybe I can serve as master of ceremonies for a small fee. You’ve seen me work a crowd on my video show, Writers Off Task With Friends. (Haven’t you?) I know you can master this. And as always, we’ll help.

So? Have you done of one these, or guest hosted, or attended a Facebook author book launch party? Give me your thoughts!

3 replies on “Book Launch Party UPDATE (for my friend Nathan’s book – but read it cos there’s good info you need to know!)”

I think Nathan puts a lot into everything. He’s that kind of guy.

Just guessing, I think he lined up authors who write time travel because he does, and he worked hard to get to be an admin of a GoodReads time travel fiction group so he could find authors like this.

The result is his book is #1 right now in one of its categories, and rising fast on Ammy overall. It was 500 overall earlier. That’s not bad.

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Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#583 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

#4 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Metaphysical & Visionary
#4 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Time Travel
#5 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Time Travel

Not bad!

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