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2025 Marketing Plan: Trying to Get Organized!
Audiobooks · Book Promotion · My Books · My Thoughts · Self-publishing

2025 Marketing Plan: Trying to Get Organized!

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Things To Do Before 2025

My 2025 Marketing Plan has been hard to figure out this year. Being on gabapentin and dealing with the nerve pain, I haven’t been able to focus! Now is the time though! 2025 is slipping away!

So, I have three prongs to focus on:

  1. Face-to-Face sales
    1. Paperbacks
    1. Hardbacks
  2. Online sales
    1. Books
    1. Cookbooks
    1. Audiobooks
  3. Free Poetry Chapbook
Vision Board - 2025

My Nine Books

If you have forgotten the titles to my nine books, here they are and the titles are links to their Amazon page!

My Seven Books - 2025
Two new books - 2025
  1. This Tumbleweed Landed
  2. When Will Papa Get Home?: A Story of Hope In the Midst of Prejudice
  3. Let Me Tell You a Story
  4. A Time to Grow Up: A Daughter’s Grief Memoir
  5. Just Another Square Dance Caller: Authorized Biography of Marshall Flippo
  6. Coronavirus Reflections: Bitter or Better?
  7. Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Christmas Memoir
  8. Was It a Dream?: Navigating Life’s Journey Through Poetry
  9. Is My Truth Universal?: A Woman’s Poetic Odyssey

Face-to-Face Sales

Right now, I have a surplus of books on hand, especially copies of Flippo’s biography, Just Another Square Dance Caller: Authorized Biography of Marshall Flippo.

I overbought copies at what I thought was the end of the pandemic May 2021. Our annual square dance festival, Hot August Nights, was coming and would be a great venue to sell more of Flippo’s books, so I loaded up for that event! It was canceled, so that ended that. And I ended up with extra copies, both hardback and paperback.

Another factor contributing to my excess inventory: Flippo passed away November 8, 2018, so he died before we published the book May 8, 2020. At first, I had a run on orders—mostly through my website because of the pandemic. Fans stayed engaged for a couple years, but two years ago, I went to the CALLERLAB convention in Reno, Nevada and several callers didn’t know who Flippo was! Callers and dancers haven’t forgotten Flippo and the importance of his life to the square dance world.

So, this continues! During the holidays, I offered the paperback and hardback half-price and got little movement.

So, I have extended the half-price sale on all my books except my new poetry book, Was It a Dream?: Navigating Life’s Journey Through Poetry. Visit my Etsy Shop, Larada’s Reading Loft, https://www.etsy.com/shop/LaradasReadingLoft, to take advantage of the sale on most of my books, but not my cookbooks.

Etsy Shop & Shopify Store

Do you want an autographed copy of one of my books? Then you need to go to my Etsy Shop, Larada’s Reading Loft, or my Shopify Store, Larada’s Bookstore, and I will do that!

Online Sales on Amazon

Are you a regular at Amazon? I’m proud to say I have eight books on Amazon and three audiobooks. You can buy paperback, hardback, e-book or audiobook of three of my books. I plan on focusing on a different e-book each month with major discounts, so read everything you get from me.

My Audiobooks

My three audiobooks are available on Amazon, Chirp and other audiobooks sites. See the listings below for your favorite distributor.

My Free Chapbook

Download Is My Truth Universal?: A Woman’s Poetic Odyssey at https://www.amazon.com/My-Truth-Universal-Womans-Odyssey-ebook/dp/B0DKDKWSJZ. It’s a free prequel to my four-book poetry series. Sample poetry from younger days.

2025 is my eleventh year of self-publishing my books! You have two choices if you are interested: buying directly from me through a face-to-face event or from my two online stories or buying from Amazon or other distributors online.

So, the question is: have you bought one or more of my books? If you haven’t bought one, now would be a great time to buy one or two or more. Don’t hesitate!

Hair on Fire

Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Christmas Memoir e-book on sale for $1.99

Was It a Dream?: Navigating Life’s Journey Through Poetry e-book on sale for $.99

Is My Truth Universal book cover - 2025

Is My Truth Universal?: A Woman’s Poetic Odyssey e-book – FREE

Buy My Audio Books:

This Tumbleweed Landed

This Tumbleweed Landed audiobook cover

Let Me Tell You a Story 

Let Me Tell You a Story audiobook cover

Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Memoir Audiobook

Hair on Fire: A Heartwarming & Humorous Christmas Memoir audiobook cover

Blogging · Life Lessons · My Thoughts

My Absence!

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I didn’t fall off the face of the earth–trips to our family ranch and then a week long dance activity in the mountains of Colorado, and I’m back. This picture is of Saddlerock to the west of my hometown, Branson. I love sunsets there that magnify this beloved structure!

Also I was silent on my blog because I took a Digital Shop workshop with D’vorah Lanky to help me beef up my Etsy Shop. I started it a year ago and have had no sales. The workshop was fantastic, but I have had to go back and renovate my shop and do some digital productions–it’s up and running. The name of the shop is “Larada’s Reading Loft.” Go check it out at https://www.etsy.com/shop/LaradasReadingLoft

Right now, all I have for sale is paper copies of my books, but soon I will be adding digital copies of each of my books if you are interested.

Before my absence, I was so excited about our trip to Ireland and England and had outlined my blogs about the trip and felt great about my organization–that’s when it all fell apart.

I love blogging and would love to get any comments you might have. I will continue my travel experiences in Ireland and England and other thought provoking topics, so stay tuned!

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