Vegas Vendor's Village


Well, Tom and I have made our reservations for Vegas. Yup, we will be official vendors at the Vendor’s Village during the three day Wrestling Olympic Trials (June 13-15). Thousands of spectators, lots of shoppers, people there with money to burn...we should do really good at this event. Tom thinks we’ll sell several hundred copies. I think more. Heck, we’ve already sold almost a hundred copies on our website, and the book isn’t even out yet.

This brings up another topic that we’ve been debating about. How much do we want to promote our book. Tom feels that the book is going to pretty much sell itself (at the right venues of course), and that all the promotion in the world isn’t going to sell it at small random events (library visits for example). I’m thinking he’s probably right. I had planned on contacting at least our local library, but now, don’t think I will.

I do still plan on doing school visits (at least in Hazel Park). Those will be a guaranteed $300 per visit. The visit is free, but we require an advance order of at least 25 copies, so depending on what the teachers/students preorder, hard or soft, it will be at least a $300 visit. And close, so no travel expenses.

I’m not real keen on the idea of book store visits either. Those aren’t worth the time or effort most the time for a niche market book like ours. I say, tournaments, wrestling venues of any sort, a few school visits here and there, and that’s about it. It’s fun selling the book, but it’s not that big of a deal for us, just a fun project that is almost done, and where it goes, it goes.
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The AAU Folkstyle World Championships are going on down at Cobo this weekend. Frankie took a bunch of my book promo stuff and is working on sales for the book this weekend while she’s down there.

We met with our editor on Thursday morning. Things are falling into place nicely, but still not sure of the publication date yet. She said the publisher did really well with sales at the MRA last weekend. She’s putting together some educator packs for our book. Those are big selling points at the MRA, and there’s another MRA conference coming up later in the summer that we’ll be able to attend.

Also I'll be setting up some book promo and order forms at the USGWA National Championships next weekend. It's the hugest girl's wrestling meet around, and it's a two day event (lots of moms, and moms buy books!).

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Viva..Las Vegas!!


I'm so excited about Marian plugging our book at the 2008 Michigan Reading Association Conference this weekend. I wish I could be there! Unfortunately, I have to work at our final Underdog Tournament (State Finals). But that's O.K., because I will probably be able to sell more books to these wrestlers than Marian would at the conference. I really think these tournament are going to be where we sell the most.

Speaking of selling our book. Tom and I are going to Las Vegas in June for the Olympic trials, and all the big players will be there, so hopefully our book will be done and we can sell it there!

Also, Tom said Asics will make all our posters. They always make them up for Tom for free for events and such, so we'll have them do all the posters we need for school visits, etc.

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Double Good News!!!



Well, today couldn’t have started off on a better note. I got an email from our publisher, Marian, and our book is going to be represented at not one, but TWO big events this spring. The first one is at Cobo Hall, at the end of this month, the MRA. I’ve attended this event several times, and it is awesome. So many new books on display, sneak previews (like for our book), pre-orders, freebies, etc. So Robert is working on something right now for Marian to display posters and such at the event. Yippee!!

The second event is the Ann Arbor Book Festival, which I have also attended in the past. In fact, that is where I met Cynthia Furlong Reynolds, who wrote grandma’s life story!
Again, for this event we will only be able to take pre-orders and give out fliers for school visits, bookmarks, etc. but it will be good advertising and a good way to get the word out.

On another good note, two coaches, one from the UP, one out of state, emailed me yesterday with team orders, both for 25 copies of the book. We are doing so well, especially considering the book isn’t even out yet!

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Yipee!! Book Orders Are Rollin' In!!!


What a looooong weekend! We left early Friday morning for Battle Creek for the high school team finals which took place all day Friday and Saturday. Sunday was a youth MYWAY wrestling State Finals tournament so we stayed for that as well.

We got a lot of orders for our Wrestling The ABCs over the course of the wrestling weekend. And when we got home last night, I was pleasantly suprised when I checked my e-mails and discovered that I had received even more preorders while we were gone! How exciting is that?

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