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Watching Your Favorite Book Online

What's the best way to sell your book? Make a short movie about it! Book trailers are the new hot way to get readers' attention.

Plague Year author Jeff Carlson shows us how he uses trailers, social networking, sample chapter downloads and blogging to keep his spot as a bestselling writer.

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