Optional Marketing Services

Note: Prior to initiating any of the following services, we request a copy of your manuscript, an outline of major points or issues covered within and any graphics including proposed cover design. We further request a biography and photograph of the author if they are to appear in the book or in advertising. If you have any ideas regarding the primary and secondary market to which your work will appeal, please include.

It is important to have a professionally designed book, whether case bound or paperback. If Falcon Books’ pre-press or printing services are to be used, there is no need to send a copy of the typeset pages; however, if you are preparing the text or cover elsewhere, we would like to examine the work prior to beginning the marketing plan.

Press release, suitable for newspaper, magazine, TV and radio distribution:

• An effective Press Release can generate interviews, feature stories, and talk show appearances
• This service includes a sample Press Release packet with tips on how to make your book's debut a news event
• The Press Release is designed to present your book as an item of interest to the community.

Cover letter for contacting various media:

• The cover letter can be utilized to contact book reviewers, newspaper and magazine editors, and talk show hosts.
• The cover letter will focus on your book's unique qualities. It will also showcase the author as a potential interviewee, talk show guest, or subject for a feature article.
• Your book is a valuable asset to those who are searching for material of interest to their audiences; this service presents your book in that light.

Cover letter for contacting distributors:

• This service includes a list of major distributors
• It also covers what items should be included in a Distributor Packet in order to increase the book's chances of acceptance.
• The Cover Letter is customized to express your book's potential saleability, as well as emphasize its immediate successes to date.

Back cover text:

• Back Cover is an important tool for sales at bookstores.
• Text is coordinated with color, photo, and typesetting to create an eye-catching whole which will draw the reader's interest.
• Author's information and photo are important to provide the human element, allowing the reader to identify with the author.
• The essence of the Book's message is expressed in the written material.
• After the front cover, the back cover is the most vital ingredient for attracting readers in the store setting.

Display ad and flyer text:

• Falcon Books graphic arts services are available to design and typeset these items at additional cost.
• Display ads and flyers are useful, economical ways in which to share the arrival of your book with the public.
• This material may be used for brochures, postcard mailers, and bookstore posters as
  well.

Web Site Design, Startup, and Maintenance

• Many authors/independent publishers have Web sites for their publishing business.
• A Web site is a powerful and effective way to reach out to readers and potential readers, both globally and locally.
• Falcon Books can design, set up, and maintain your publishing company's web site.

Placement of Book on Internet

• Clients of Falcon Books are placed on our Web Site, free of charge.
• Falcon Books web site receives hundreds of "hits" each week
• You may choose to have Falcon Books apply to Amazon.com's Advantage Program--a unique program for independent author/publishers that displays your book in such a manner as to have an equal footing with major publishers.
• Your book may also be sold directly from the site. FB site is directly linked to Amazon.com booksellers and/or, if you prefer, to your own web site.

All written material is guaranteed to be tailored to your satisfaction. There is no charge for re-writing or editing of this material to meet this guarantee.

When you respond, we will send you an estimate for any of the above services.
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