Author Archives: Victor Volkman

About Victor Volkman

Author of "Beyond Trauma: Conversations on Traumatic Incident Reduction" and six other books.

Valerie Coleman – Organizing a Successful Book Fair

Victor R. Volkman and Tyler R. Tichelaar spoke with best-selling author, award winning publisher, and entrepreneur Valerie Coleman about secrets of making a great book festival event. In 2010, Coleman joined forces with LaTonya Branham and Charlotte Brown to launch … Continue reading

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Dan Poynter – Book writing, Publicity and Promotion

Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman spoke with entrepreneur, publishing, and marketing guru Dan Poynter about a wide variety of related topics. Poynter’s Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print and Sell Your Own Book has had more than 15 editions … Continue reading

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The (inevitable?) negative book review and what to do

Everyone (me included) will gets negative book reviews. All books get them, what you do is up to you. I defy you to find a bestseller without a negative review: J.K. Rowling, John Grisham, Dean R. Koontz. Congratulations you have … Continue reading

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Elaine Wilkes – Getting Your Book into Bookstores

Drew Gerber of PitchRate interviewed Elaine Wilkes, author of Nature’s Secret Miracles about how she got her book into bookstores with NO support from her publisher and NO interest from corporate buyers at Barnes & Noble and Borders.  It’s a … Continue reading

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Kristi Floyd & Rhonda Kuiper – Getting Your Book into Libraries

On December 2nd, 2010 Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman spoke with Austin area librarians Kristi Floyd and Rhonda Kuiper about how librarians pick their books for the patrons at general (“district”) and school libraries.  Kristi and Rhonda have experience … Continue reading

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