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Beyond book No. 3

An online presence is crucial for authors to promote their book or books. Posting videos is one way some of us do this, even me who has no clue  how to take videos. Yes, my camera does videos but even with instructions I am video-making challenged – with the techniques. (Note: I focus on improving my still shots with my digital camera and they get posted – not just book promo, but family and friends and my garden).

So, I have had to get creative to get the videos out there. My secret is I let others do the videos in a variety of ways. Here is how videos of me and my books bave gotten out there on the Internet. Hopefully they will give you some ideas.

Doing an Internet TV show

This  one I’ve probably mentioned before. I host Crime Beat Confidential on thatchannel.com which is an Internet TV station based in Toronto. My main Beyond books’ character, PI Dana Bowman opens each show and she even did part of the interview when the guest was a real-life private eye. Here’s the latest episode with guest Lorna Poplak. Dana and I have also guested on Liquid Lunch, hosted by Hugh Reilly on thatchannel.

Guesting on a cable TV show.

A few years ago I guested on a Rogers Cable TV show called Writers and Readers hosted by author Tom Taylor. I actually did two – 10 minute interviews – one about my Beyond books and one about my writing and editing business. Although the show (and actual studio) no longer exist, I do have the two segments, posted on Goodreads (scroll down through the videos; most, if not all of my book promo videos are here)

Letting somebody else video-tape an event or part of an event

Last month I was part of a Crime Writers of Canada panel on Hogtown Homicides: setting our books in Toronto. The five of us did this presentation at a Sisters in Crime meeting. One of the panelists had someone else tape part of it. I gather it was edited and it came out short and sweet. She sent us panelists (and probably others) the link to it. So I posted it on my Facebook page  and on my author gigs and  blog tours page connected to this blog.

Someone else posts a show clip on their website

My most recent Crime Beat Confidential guest, author and researcher Lorna Poplak, who wrote Drop Dead: the horrible history of hanging in Canada, is posting a short clip from her appearance on this show to her website – she even asked my permission to do so and of course, I said “yes”.

Facebook is a good place for me to post links to these and share them with my friends. Also my blog posts are automatically linked to my Facebook author page (which is part of my main Facebook account) and to Linked In. And my website home page, at the bottom of the page, has automatic feeds to the last two author blog posts, which my son, who helped with the website built in.

So, there are ways to get you and your books moving (literally) on the Internet. Maybe you have other ideas for this.

How do  you promote your books using video?

And while we are on the topic, click on the cover of Beyond Faith at the top and it will get you to my Amazon page for my Beyond books . And oh yeah, the latest two author blog posts get there on my author profile. Ditto for Goodreads.

Cheers.

Sharon