3 More Media Kit Tips for Authors

Hi! Those who remember my last blog post, 3 Media Kit Tips for the New Year, will be delighted to know I’ve got three more hot tips for you!

How hot?

Or maybe,

Without wasting more of your time, let’s begin!

Media Kit Tip: The First – Product Info –

First, we must acknowledge our source: Platform by Michael Hyatt

So what do I mean by product info?

1-1 Photos

Like this

1-2 Physical Characteristics

This is from Amazon’s page for Zombie Turkeys. Trust Amazon to get all this information!

Product details

• Series: Life After Life
• Paperback: 186 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (October 17, 2016)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1539466752
• ISBN-13: 978-1539466758
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars   12 customer reviews

 

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Media Kit Tip the Second – Have Trailers

That would be Trailers, short and long form

Long form trailers would be up to five hundred words. Here’s mine:

Sam Melvin, an underachieving e-reporter from a small town, changes forever when he meets turkeys that won’t stay dead. You can shoot ’em, chop ’em, burn ’em – they come back stronger. The undead plague of poultry spreads uncontrollably, rocking the whole country. As Sam tracks down the zombie turkeys and how to eradicate them, his editor, Lisa Kambacher, nags him to turn his stories and expenses in on time. During their years of working together, Lisa has mellowed from bitchy into an irascible pinchpenny.

Lisa snipes at Sam for plebeian writing but uses her intelligence to pursue the lucrative carnivorous turkey story. Sam and Lisa ricochet across the landscape, tracking turkeys and fleeing the bloodthirsty hordes. Careening from shell-shocked grocery store owners fighting turkeys crawling out of refrigerators, to machine-gunning turkey farmers, to secret militia, Sam and Lisa doggedly report. Throughout the turkey apocalypse, they dare ravaged cities, plow knee-deep in gore and corpses, and upload streams of zombie turkey video news to the world.

With paranoid militias clashing with the federal government and unkillable turkeys, Sam and Lisa doubt their ability to survive. Sam and Lisa have no superpowers. If you have a heart condition or lack humor, you should not listen to Zombie Turkeys, no matter how much you want to find out what happens.

Short form trailers would be up to one hundred words. Here’s mine:

Sam Melvin, an underachieving e-reporter from a small town, changes forever when he meets turkeys that won’t stay dead. You can shoot ’em, chop ’em, burn ’em—they come back stronger.
If you have a heart condition or lack humor, you should not read Zombie Turkeys, no matter how much you want to.

This is from my Createspace book preview.

Media Kit Tip the Third – Author Headshots

When I had my professional author headshots, my photographer took over sixty photos.  Here are some of them.

Watch This Space!

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