“Your Book Is Your Hook!” Show – Social Media + Bestseller Kate Douglas

[HTML1]More about Lori Randall
Lori Randall is a digital native with considerable experience in design from practical interior design, to web page design and for the past several years, social media design. She specializes in creating social media campaigns that weave together communication threads – website, blog, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube – into a strong, multi-colored campaign that captures the essence of a client’s brand.

After deep experience in marketing and design that included creating traffic-stopping window treatments in the retail sector, and running a commercially successful boutique, Lori studied Speech Communication at the University of Georgia and graduated magna cum laude in 2008, a time when the social media world was bursting with opportunity. A natural flair for design combined with a passion for authentic communication resulted in the combustible success story that is Social Media Design.

Twelve months after launching Social Media Design, Lori was a keynote speaker at Blogworld NYC May 2011, and is a regular contributor to Social Media Examiner, Enterprise Efficiency, and Smart Brief. A semi-Finalist in the Social Media Success Summit when only 10 people out of nearly 3,000 tested high enough on the final exam to place, confirms her abilities in design and social media communications.

Lori regularly contributes as a guest lecturer at The University of Georgia in for both Public Relations and Master of Internet Technology areas of study, as well as at Lanier Technical College.  She holds professional associations with the PRSA – Public Relations Society of America and IABC – International Association of Business Communicators and is in high demand for keynote speaking engagements.

More about Kate Douglas
Some people just seem to know they’re meant to write, but it can still take awhile to figure out exactly what their career will entail. Kate Douglas started out writing radio copy for a country western radio station in 1972, wrote and illustrated an educational cartoon strip for the American Mosquito Control Association for a number of years, was a newspaper reporter for a small town weekly where she covered everything from high school sports to drug busts, and then, in the mid-1980s, decided to write her first romance.

Many submissions and rejections followed.

In 1998, she published with a small ebook publisher before anyone knew what an ebook was, but it wasn’t until 2005, a full twenty years after finishing that first romance, that she signed with a New York publisher.

In January 2006, Kensington Publishing launched their Aphrodisia imprint of erotic romance with Kate’s Wolf Tales, a sexy paranormal series about a lost race of shapeshifters. Kate has continued on as the imprint’s lead author, with her twenty-first and final title in the series due to release June 28. She has also completed CrystalFire, the final book in a four book series of paranormal romances, which are part of Kensington’s Zebra imprint. The first novella in her new Aphrodisia series, Dream Catchers, is scheduled for a December release.

Kate and her husband of almost forty years have two adult children and five grandchildren, with number six on the way. They live in the beautiful mountains of Lake County, California, north of the Napa Valley wine country.

CIick Here for full chapter excerpts of all of Kate’s books.

You can find Kate on Facebook or on Twitter.

YOUR BOOK IS YOUR HOOK! SUPPORTS…
Project Night Night and their efforts to put a new or slightly used children’s book in the hands of homeless children in shelters in the United States. Since 2005, they have hand-delivered more than 100,000 night night packages which include a stuffed animal, a blanket and a children’s book tucked inside a canvas night night bag.

We encourage you to find out how you can donate to support their efforts today.

Read to Feed is a reading incentive service-learning program that offers global education opportunities and will foster in your children a love for reading, a passion to help others and a way to help create a better world.

THE NEXT BESTSELLER™ EXCLUSIVE WEEKEND WORKSHOP
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Practical training for a first time or seasoned author to learn to properly pitch your book to the book publishing industry, Hollywood, the media and others. Whether you are going to a writers’ conference, publishing industry event or have a sudden opportunity to pitch your project to a professional, this is your weekend to prepare, practice and polish up your pitch with the professionals.

PLUS you will receive a BONUS full scholarship to a second weekend workshop – The Mastery of Self-Expression. This is an opportunity to continue to work on your personal presentation skills in an environment designed for creative people like you. It is a 3-day intense workshop to expand your creative abilities and vision.

Graduates of The Mastery include Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Fisher Stevens, Mary Louise Parker, Tommy Tune, Michael Bennett, Colin Higgins and many others.

About Jennifer S. Wilkov

Radio show Host Jennifer S. Wilkov is a #1 international best-selling award-winning author and the creator of the From Thought to Sales in 90 Days™ Book Process. Jennifer has supported first time and seasoned authors and writers with the writing, getting published and marketing of their book ideas and projects as well as the building of their platform to raise their visibility to readers and the media.

She is also an award-winning freelance writer (2009 Silver Eddie Award for an article featured in Marie Claire April, 2009 issue) who has been quoted and whose writings have appeared in national magazines and newspapers.

Jennifer has sat on Boards of Advisors and spoken at major industry events including the New York Center for Independent Publishing, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, RT Booklovers Convention, Writers for New Orleans, Self-Publishing Book Expo and BookExpo America.

Through the years, Jennifer’s works have been endorsed by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Robert Allen, Barbara De AngelisTreehugger.com, publicists, literary agents, publishers, many in the field of green book publishing, her martial arts Senseis in Shintaido and Aikido, and many more.

Jennifer is also the Host and Executive Producer of the Your Book Is Your Hook! Show on WomensRadio. Your Book Is Your Hook! is designed to serve and support authors, writers and readers of books and other writing mediums. It showcases industry professionals and authors who share insights, experiences and wisdom about writing, marketing and publishing your book and beyond including Hollywood film, television, radio and more..