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How to leverage publicity wins to supercharge your social media strategy

Maybe you hired a publicist. Perhaps you’ve created your own press release and have mastered pitching yourself to media outlets. Once you’ve put yourself out there and people start talking about you and the book, it’s time to leverage those media gains and promote them on your social media.  What are publicity wins?  Publicity wins […]

May 2025: Books Forward Authors in the Media

What can we say, Books Forward authors are always going, going, going! We’re excited to feature some of our authors and their recent media wins for May 2025. Interviews A&E True Crime Blog: “The Coroner Who Autopsied Some of the Most Famous Dead People in Hollywood, ” a Q&A with Anne Soon Choi Dallas Voice: […]

If Bon Iver songs were a book

New Bon Iver album!! I’m excited, but I also need to be in the right mood to listen to him. Feeling nostalgic and wistful, contemplative and a little sad. One of these books is sure to get me in the spirits. They’re brooding with a touch of melancholy, and go perfectly with Bon Iver’s vulnerability. […]

How to make your social media content more accessible for disabled folks

Social media is an ever-growing landscape, and it has the power to connect people in ways that we previously never thought imaginable. We have the ability, quite literally at our fingertips, to share information and peer into the lives of other cultures (even across the world!) in a rapid and impactful way. Disabled people should […]

Books To Read After The Premiere of The Last of Us

When the first season of “The Last of Us” hit our screens in January of 2023, I was absolutely hooked. Zombies, gay doomsday preppers, a rebellious teenage girl destined to save the world? PEDRO “DADDY” PASCAL? Consider me locked in.  I’ve been looking for something to fill the clicker-shaped hole in my heart since the […]