AuthorHive is not a self-publishing firm. Instead, it offers various publicity and marketing packages/services designed to “create some buzz for your book.” The company’s promise is simple: “No matter what your marketing experience or budget, our marketing consultants can help you create an integrated campaign to tell your story.”
AuthorHive’s individual services include:
- Publicity – The company’s publicists, who are based in New York and London, “use their years of experience to make sure your book reaches the audience it deserves.” The price begins at $399 and goes up from there, depending on your requests.
- Printed Materials – The company will create postcards and business cards featuring your book, as well as promotional materials. The fee starts at $300 and goes up from there, depending on what you order.
- Radio Services – The company “makes your voice available on the airwaves,” for a fee that begins at $999.
- E-mail Marketing Campaigns – The company will “write and create a customized e-mail for your book,” which will be sent to 500,000 to 10 million recipients, depending on the service you purchase. The fee begins at $349 and goes up from there.
- Book Signings – AuthorHive will help arrange book signings designed to put you “face-to-face with fans and publishing industry insiders at the venues that matter.” No fee is listed for this service.
- Hollywood Screenplay – Your book will be converted into a screenplay written by a professional screenwriter and added to AuthorHive’s database, where it can be seen by directors, actors, agents and producers who are looking for new material. No fee is listed for this service.
- Author Video Interview – The company will create a 60-90 second video trailer featuring your book, which can be combined with an email campaign that notifies 1,000,000 potential book buyers about your book video. The video will also be posted on YouTube, Yahoo! and similar sites. No fee is listed for this service.
AuthorHive’s packages include:
- Premium Global Campaign – This includes a personal publicist who pitches your story and a press release sent to 5,000 media outlets. No fee is listed for this service.
- Video Newsmaker Publicity Campaign – This includes a personal publicist, a press release sent to 2,500 media outlets, an online radio interview, an author video, and social media setup and maintenance. No fee is listed for this service.
- Online BZZZ Plus Publicity – This includes the setting up of an author website, a half-page ad in two issues of Radio Television Interview Report, and social media setup. No fee is listed for this service.
AuthorHive points out that over 1,000,000 books are published yearly, so you need to “cut through the noise” to get your book noticed. That’s why they go beyond what they call “traditional” book marketing services to encompass the web, video and social media.
If your book has already been published, you can use one or more of AuthorHive’s packages/services to promote it.
We at Taylor-Fox can help you create your business book, health book, memoir, biography, inspirational book or other book and get it ready for publication. We’ve helped scores of people achieve their goals, and some of their books have landed on bestseller lists. Let us help you! Call us at 818-594-0379.
Note: All of the information in this blog entry came from the company website. Before signing on with AuthorHive or any other firm, read the contract carefully and check review sites to see if there are any problems or special issues regarding this firm. I’ll address these issues in future blogs.
Nadine Taylor and Barry Fox write, ghostwrite, rewrite and edit books in many genres, including health, business, inspiration/ spirituality and memoirs. Their resume is long and varied but there’s one thing that never changes: They love to work with words, creating books that are clear, compelling and pleasurable to read. If you’re interested in writing a book, editing a book and/or publishing a book, you’ve come to the right place!
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