SELF-PUBLISHING by J.Mark Press

Here are extensive pointers and pitfalls of self-publishing, and copyright
information that every poet and author needs before investing in a
book. We can help you print the smallest trial quantity of your own
hard cover book.
Visit our chat board to discuss your concerns. (Sharpen your skill with our
weekly contests on our Poets' Forum chat board.)click here.

ONLY YOU CAN MAKE YOURSELVES "KNOWN"
AS POETS!
No one's going to ask you if you're a poet. You've got to make promotion
plans and stick to them. You've got to think up ways to connect to people
and publishers. It's what every famous poet did! Focussing on a theme helps.
Hosting and promoting your own web site helps. We help you do it!

HERE'S HOW I HELP YOU help yourself with promotion....

I supply our poets with letters to their newspapers and libraries. It's
the first step toward becoming known. People will read the news release in
their newspaper and ask at the library for the book you appear in. The library will order the book.

Other people who want to read poetry will see that book in the library.
They will definitely borrow OUR books!! They'll be reading YOUR poetry!!

Now that you understand how news releases are written and published, you
are able to word your own. Now you can arrange to give poetry readings.
Invite area poets to bring their poems to read, and their guests!

High schools, colleges, libraries, Writer's groups, historic sites, the Y's, town facilities, bookstores, are all good bets for places to read. Radio or cable TV
talk shows are good places to be interviewed to gain free publicity about your forthcoming reading. Get the addresses of TV shows and write letters.

Sell our "Keepsakes" with your poem. Sell your own book. Don't you want
to be remembered? Always keep names and addresses of attendees to solicit
for the next show,book,keepsake. Rod McKuen pursued publicity relentlessly. He had sold 9 million poetry books at my last communique. He made LP records. You can make tapes and CD's easily today.

Our book author, Connie Savage, sold 124 of our bookmarks, for $3 each, in a week, just telling people outside her church that she's raising money to publish her book!

Get a web site where millions of people may find you, 24 hours a day, 365 days
a year! We can provide this for you. People come HERE to see the show! (Your own isolated site won't be found unless you get into search engines and advertise). See www.worldtv3.com/POETS.htm

Of course, poets should be published in the most treasured hard cover anthologies of our era. It is something the classic poets did to become
known in their own time.

You don't want to be in a book that buries you in 1,000 amateur
poets. That kind of book ends up in garage sales, followed by land
fills. Libraries and friends and relatives of poets aren't saving and preserving
such tripe. Everyone who owns and reads J.Mark Press anthologies loves them.

They're beautiful. Every 2nd page is a full illustrated page...not just with clip art.

J.Mark preserves the time honored art of "iconology;" (where the artist writes a poem as a caption to his painting).
Instead, J.Mark captions rare "museum art" with a poem.

"Iconology" is nearly lost today due to the cost of permission art and the time
required to dig into archives and locate appropriate pictures.


After our "car commercial," the poets' own web sites begin. (If you have an email address, people can link to it from your page here.)

We're advertising it to publishers, reviewers, and libraries!



Selling via BOOKSTORES?
They're a problem for the small press. They customarily get 50% of your
selling price. (They may never sell your book.) People usually go to bookstores for books they saw ads for or publicity about, or for subject information. People generally look for poetry in the library.


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Guest Register/ Get Your Own Web Site here on World TV 3

Keepsakes with Your Words

Hard cover and soft cover book publishing
Book Printing and Binding of your own pages

Poetry Publications And Reviews

Poetry Contest winners' poetry from Helping Hand
Anthology

Poetry Contest winners' poetry from Notable American Poets
Anthology

Reviews of J.Mark book authors

Promoting Yourself as a Poet

SHOP AT BARNES AND NOBLE

Authors' Web Sites

"A Backpack of Milestones" Poetry by Barbara Fischer

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