For Writers
“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language.
That is how civilizations heal.” — Toni Morrison
• What Every Writer Needs to Know about Editing, Publishing and Marketing Services
• What is “Marketing Your Book With Love”?
• Workshop: Marketing Your Book With Love
• Comments from Workshop Participants
• Books by Aysha Griffin and Her Clients
• Self-Publishing Resources for Writers
What Every Writer Needs to Know about Editing, Publishing and Marketing Services?"
What is "Marketing Your Book With Love"
Over the years, I have presented many resources to support you in your business and personal development, and share my own journeys. Like many others who feel “social media fatigue,” I took a hiatus from blogging and social media to process major changes in my own life, reconnect with my heart, and consider what is most important to me.
From this came a workshop (and book in process) specifically for women writers — and open-hearted men — to address the apprehension, overwhelm and drudgery of marketing.
Marketing Your Book With Love offers a radical and effective approach to promoting and selling your book that is true to your own sensibilities, honoring your time, priorities, interests and level of technical skills.
Using familiar parenting metaphors in new ways, and principles of nurturance and relationship-building familiar to every woman, Marketing Your Book With Love guides writers to connect with the core of your own creativity and unlock your deepest passions. That is what inspired your book in the first place!
As a marketing professional since 1985, I provide practical steps, insights, tools and guidance to use your unique passion in building a community of devoted readers and position yourself in the marketplace where it matters. I help writers determine which few avenues – of the countless on-and-off-line possibilities – to pursue that make sense to you and are most effective.
Whether your book is fiction or non-fiction, I believe that you can have fun marketing your book and experience the satisfaction of raising a successful “baby,” one that will reward you for your efforts. With a global audience yearning for authenticity and empowered feminine voices, it is time to share what you love, with love.
This workshop has been delivered, with popular reception for four years in a row at the renowned San Miguel Writers Conference , to Writers Who Love Mexico, and to groups of writers in Santa Fe, NM and elsewhere.
I am available for personal coaching via Skype, and presenting this workshop to women writers’ groups and writers’ conferences worldwide.
I’d love to hear from you, so please subscribe to this site and let’s keep in touch!
For more about the “Marketing Your Book With Love” WORKSHOP, click here!
To great writing, and marketing your book with love,
Aysha
Books by Aysha Griffin and Her Clients
This is not a complete list as a number of books are out of print, created prior to eBooks.
• Leonardo’s Revenge and Other Stories
• Santa Fe Green Building Guidelines
• Homeowners’ Guide To Professional Remodeling
• All About Working From Home
Clients’ Books & Projects
(Abbreviated List)
– Isora Morales Suárez: The Meringue Witches (2016)
This timeless Young Adult story of fantasy and hope was written by a Cuban author in Cienfuegos, who attended one of my workshops for authors there. To translate from Spanish to English, I hired University of Havana Professor Susana Haug. Together we edited and subsequently I designed the layout and published it on Amazon. In November 2018, it was featured on a Book Club For Kids podcast. You can learn more about it here.
– Graham E. Fuller: GrahamEFuller.com
Turkey and The Arab Spring (2014)
I worked with Mr. Fuller to create a strategic plan and build his entire web presence – website development, design and copy, set up of LinkedIn and FaceBook pages, creation of an email management system. Analytics, alerts, and other systems to share blogs posts, along with online lessons in the use of these systems.This book hit #1 on Amazon (in the category of Middle East politics) and sold thousands of paperback copies in the first month. This is attributable to the author’s already well-established reputation as a Middle East expert.
– Paul A. Merriman: PaulMerriman.com
First-Time Investor: Grow and Protect Your Money (2012)
Get Smart or Get Screwed: How To Select The Best and Get The Most From Your Financial Advisor (2012)
101 Investment Decisions Guaranteed To Change Your Financial Future (2012)
My team and I have worked with Mr. Merriman, a successful retired financial advisor and educator, since 2012, managing consistent social media campaigns, weekly podcasts, website updates of recommendations and articles and a twice-a-month newsletter. The final edit and formatting of the three books listed above were also my responsibility. Through Merriman’s Financial Education Foundation, they are available free of charge on his website, along with many other resources.
– Steven and Marcia Rogat: Creative Thought Center
Ghosts in the Mist [Kindle Edition] (2013) originally published as
Spirit Journeys: Freeing the Soul in This Life and Beyond (2002)
Healing Thoughts: Applying Therapeutic Shamanism in Your Daily Life (2013)
For this wonderful couple, I worked as an editor and editorial consultant.
– Richard C. Dorf
Electrical Engineering Handbook, CRC Press (revised 2012)
Project coordinator of more than 100 academic articles.
– Jan Helling Croteau
Perform It! Director’s Guide To Young People’s Theater
Editor and editorial consultant for this timeless and innovative approach to teaching and learning.
– Carol Bojarsky: A Plate of Grace, Hungry Heart Press
Editor and book designer for this illustrated cookbook by the chef of the Westerbeke Ranch Conference Center, Sonoma CA
