WHAT WE DO FOR YOU

What We Do For You

“People won’t buy your book unless they know about it”
– James Patterson

Getting publicity for a book is the most economical thing an author can do to get the word-of-mouth going that every book needs to be successful. Word-of-Mouth is when people talk about your book because they heard from a friend it was a “good book” to read. Or they just ‘heard’ the author on a radio show and he/she was terrific. This is where the term free publicity came from.

Word-of-Mouth IS FREE but it takes a financial commitment from the author or publisher to get the publicity going so that word-of-mouth can do its work.

Who We Are

Book publicist Scott Lorenz, President of Westwind Book Marketing is a master at public relations. He has fine-tuned his craft over the past 30 plus years developing a special knack for working with authors to help them get all the publicity they deserve and more. Lorenz works with bestselling authors and self-published authors promoting all types of books, whether it’s their first book or their 15th book. He’s handled publicity for books by CEOs, CIA Officers, Navy SEALS, Homemakers, Fitness Gurus, Doctors, Lawyers and Adventurers. Many clients return for their second, third even their fourth books to have Lorenz promote them.

His clients have been featured by Good Morning America, FOX & Friends, CNN, ABC News, New York Times, Nightline, TIME, PBS, LA Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Woman’s World, & Howard Stern to name a few.

How do we do it?

Members of the media are inundated by authors and experts trying to get their attention, so they stopped answering their phones years ago! Their email box is an overflowing river of spam that is less

effective every day. It’s more challenging now than ever before to get their attention. So how do we break through?

Besides working with a top talented team with years of experience and prior relationships, we utilize the latest methods and tactics including Twitter, LinkedIn, texts, and META (Facebook). That’s why our social reach is listed on the home page. IT MATTERS!

We make our authors newsworthy. We look for the unique angle for each book and discuss various approaches to get covered by the media. We then create a press kit with a focused angle. We also obtain blurbs from reviewers, members of the media, academics, etc., and include these in the press materials. We also create a book trailer that brings the book to life in a 60 second video featuring the book. Sometimes the media won’t have time to read a press release but they’ll watch a quick book trailer.

Some books need a new title. We can do that. In fact Scott Lorenz’s new award winning, bestselling book helps authors come up with a snappy title that sells: