I was honored to be part of Morgan James Red Carpet event last week in Nashville. Morgan James is the publisher of Impromptu Friday Nights – A Guide To Supper Clubs and they hosted an event for 17 of their recently published authors.
The authors present were a very impressive group with CEO’s, CFO, doctors and people with amazing life stories. The cornerstone of the event was a live TV stream where the authors were interviewed about their books. With all these high-powered people, who did they pick to go first?, the “Party Guy” with his hopefully humorous book about socializing over a meal.
Here is a link to the live stream of the event.
The whole event was a lot of fun. Nashville is city exploding with excitement. Once a sleepy southern town, today it is a trendy city with an amazing array of entertainment options. With country music, professional sports, night life , restaurants and more it is a great place to visit. It is also the home of Ingram Content Group that is a global leader of book sales, distribution and production. Meeting Ingram representatives was very helpful for first time authors as they build an understanding of the book business.
The second day of the event was designed to help educate the authors on what it takes to market their books. It isn’t easy as even books like “Chicken Soup for the Soul” took two years before anyone bought it. The publisher also dropped the fact that it usually takes two or three books to be published before anyone takes notice. Authors like John Grisham and J.K. Rowling were on book three before anyone bought into book one. So you can expect to hear about “Impromptu Friday Nights – A Guide To Wine Clubs” in the not so near future.
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