Mobile Marketing & Mobile App Development for Authors

You can do a lot more with your mobile phone than just talk and text. With thousands of apps for Android and BlackBerry smartphones, and even basic mobile phones.

Innovative platform is a simple & inexpensive way for any author to build and manage their own app. Why do you need an iPhone and Android app? To sell your books, promote your tour, share resources with readers, and to engage your fans on a personal level. Sound good? http://mobileroadie.com/authors

App Inventor for Android: http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about - Step by step instruction to create apps for Android phones.

Book Marketing Network mobile website: www.thebookmarketingnetwork.com/m - Access this social network with 6,000 book authors via your cellphone.

DotMobi: http://mtld.mobi - Provides tips & resources for designing & testing websites designed for use w/cellphones & web-ready mobile phones.

iPhone Stimulator: http://iphone4simulator.com - To see how your mobile website or app will work on an iPhone (from your home computer), simply go to iphone4simulator.com or, better yet, simply add your mobile website URL to the end of the .com. Easy to use, and very effective.

Mobi Ready: http://ready.mobi/launch.jsp?locale=en_EN - This website offers a free report that scores your mobile website (1 to 5). Provides an in-depth analysis of pages to determine how well your site performs on a mobile device.

Want stand-alone iPad app for your book?

Electric Publisher will create an iPad app for you:

Book app with the following features are available: easy navigation, hyperlinked Table of Contents to any chapter, progress bar and page numbers, hyperlinked footnotes, font size changes, bookmarks, margin notes, highlights, videos, audios, newsfeeds from your blog or Twitter, discussion boards, text messages to fans - all this for $600.

Want an iPad book app that allows you to add additional books to the app, the cost is $300 for each new book.

For more information, go to http://www.electricpublisher.com or email: info@electricpublisher.com.

Oregon Book Awards Submission Deadline

Important Date! Oregon Book Awards Submission Deadline Is Fast Approaching.

OBA Deadline Date Applications for the 2010 Oregon Book Awards must be received by 5 pm on Friday, August 27, 2010.

For submission guidelines click here!

The Oregon Book Awards honor outstanding books by Oregon authors.

The finalists for the 2010/11 Oregon Book Awards will be announced in early 2011 and the winners will be announced at the 2010/11 Oregon Book Awards ceremony, to be held in the spring of 2011.

Awards are presented in the following genres: Poetry, Fiction, General Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, Children's Literature, Young Adult Literature and Drama.

For more information contact Susan Denning at susan@literary-arts.org or by phone at 503-227-2583.

Foreward Reviews: 2010 Book of the Year Awards

ForeWord Reviews is now accepting entries for the 2010 Book of the Year Awards. This time-honored book award celebrates the independent spirit; it's open to independently published books which have been or will be released in 2010.

ForeWord Reviews' Book of the Year Awards program was established to bring increased attention to librarians and booksellers of the literary and graphic achievements of independent publishers and their authors. ForeWord is the only review trade journal devoted exclusively to books from independent houses.

The deadline to enter is January 15, 2011. To enter and find out more about the award categories, eligibility guidelines, and judging criteria, visit: www.forewordreviews.com.

If your books expand a reader's world, introduce a voice society needs to hear, offer practical knowledge where none existed before, or simply entertain so compellingly that all distractions fall away, they should be submitted for the Book of the Year Awards!