Author Ideas for Final Quarter Book Promo

Author Ideas for Final Quarter Book Promo …

Each year, I compile a calendar of author connected dates. As we enter this final quarter that coattails to the topic of last week’s podcast … I have a question for you. What are you doing to verbally and visually main dates that connect with YOU … YOUR BOOK … YOUR THEME … or just WRITING in general in your marketing and social media pushes?

Looking at October, I’m all over National Cookbook Month with my Appetizers with Judith and Cooking with Judith. National Reading Group Month directs to book clubs … open to both fiction and nonfiction. I’ve got both. Not to mention, it’s National Book Month—perfect for all of us.
November brings me Book Lovers Day.
December will focus on my historical fiction series for Read a Book Month. I’m playing with tying something into Iceland’s Jolabokaflod, Iceland’s Christmas Book Flood

OCTOBER
National Book Month
National Reading Group Month
Black Speculative Fiction Month
Church Library Month
National Cookbook Month
National Medical Librarians Month
16-22 – National Friends of Libraries Week 16-22 – Teen Read Week
25-30 Canada National Media Literacy Week
1 – Final day of Banned Books Week 1 – International Coffee Day
5 – National Poetry Day (UK and Ireland)
6 – Mad Hatter Day
7 – Bookshop Day
7 – Love Your Bookshop Day
11 – Myth and Legends Day (Australia)
16 – Dictionary Day
17 – Black Poetry Day
20 – National Day on Writing
26 – Pat Conroy’s birthday – one of Judith’s fave authors
27 – Frankenstein Friday
27 – National Tell a Story Day in Scotland and the U.K. 31 – Books For Treats Day

NOVEMBER
National Family Literacy Month
National Memoir Writing Month
Picture Book Month
Library and Information Services Month National Life Writing Month
National Novel Writing Month a.k.a. NaNoWriMo Picture Book Month
World Nursery Rhyme Week – varies every year 1-7 Banned Books Week
1-7 Mystery Series Week
1-7 National Newspaper Week (USA and Canada)
1-7 Mystery Series Week
7-13 National Book Award Week
11-17 National Young Readers Week
13-17 World Nursery Rhyme Week
13-19 Teen Read Week 19-25 National Bible Week
1 – National Family Literacy Day 1 – National Author’s Day
2 – National Non-Fiction Day in the UK
4 – National Waiting for the Barbarians Day
6 – Book Lovers Day – also August 9
8 – Young Readers Day
12 – National Chicken Soup for the Soul Day 15 – I Love to Write Day
18 – High-Five a Librarian Day
25 – A’phabet Day or No L Day (Pun Day)

DECEMBER
Read a New Book Month – also in September
Spiritual Literacy Month
7 – Letter Writing Day
8 – Canada – Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day 10 – Dewey Decimal System Day
21 – Crossword Puzzle Day 21 – National Short Story Day
21 – Phileas Fogg Win a Wager Day
24 – Jolabokaflod, Iceland’s Christmas Book Flood

Have some fun here … enhance your social media presence and book marketing with a twist!

Dr. Judith Briles is the award-winning and bestselling author of 49 books and calls Colorado home. When she’s not in the kitchen or in the garden, she’s working with clients as The Book Shepherd, a book and publishing consulting and project management firm that works with authors at all stages of their book to create and publish a book they never regret! She’s the founder of the first Authors’ Hall of Fame exclusively dedicated to ensuring the legacy of authors connected in some way with Colorado. She’s also the Director of San Francisco chapter of the Women’s National Book Association.

Judith’s books have been translated into 17 countries with over 1,000,000 copies sold! They have been featured in over 2,000 radio and TV shows including repeat appearances on CNN, CNBC, and Oprah. She has worked with over 1,500 authors and created 500 plus bestsellers. Print publications include Newsweek, People, Time, The Wall Street Journal and … The National Enquirer! Her popular podcast, AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing is dedicated to authors and writers and their success and is ranked in the top ten in four categories on GoodPods.