Find out more about self-publishing...

4 hazards of physician publishing

25 ways to promote your own book

When you need a writer

Topics to consider for your next book

Request a proposal

1. Talk about your book whenever the conversation provides an opening.
   2. Offer to present a seminar on the topic covered in your book.
   3. When your book is being printed, ask for a bookmark or postcard to be printed at the same time that your full-color cover is on the press.
   Give away or mail the bookmark or postcard to promote your book.
   4. Display the book on the desk in your office and answer questions your patients ask you about the book.
   5. Install a small corner shelf in each treatment room at yourclinic and set the book on this shelf.
   6. Make a poster out of an extra cover and display it in the waiting room.
   7. Instead of business cards, make miniature copies of your book on one side with your business information on the other.
   8. Using artwork from the book, create an obviously invalid prescription form with ordering information on it and hand it to anyone interested in your book.
   9. Take a sample copy of the book to the editor of your local newspaper and ask for an appointment to show him your book and talk about its content.
   10. Prepare several 30-second radio messages based on topics in your book and take
   them to a local radio station, offering to produce them and
   help find sponsors who will pay for them.
   Your hospital, a pharmacy or even your clinic are possible financial supporters.
   11. Prepare a sample column on the topic of your book and offer to provide a
   weekly column for a local newspaper.
   12. Take idea #10, above, and see if the radio station might want to run the
   messages as a public service.
   13. Get as many free home pages for your book as you can on the Internet and link to and from all of your sites.
   14. Print a modest postcard with a few words about your book and ordering information. Send it to 50-100 of your patients each month, and provide the postcards in the waiting room.
   15. Display your book in the waiting room. Be sure each display copy is carefully marked, DISPLAY COPY: DO NOT REMOVE, and include an order form in the book.
   16. While you're making display copies for your waiting room, share them with other healthcare providers who also have waiting rooms: your hospital, a physical therapy office,
   colleagues who receive referrals from you.
   17. The local pharmacies will probably be delighted to display and sell your book for you. They'll want a 40% fee, but you're still ahead of that 5%-10% royalty you'd get from a
   commercially published book.
   18. Find out who the other physician authors are in your community and suggest a feature story to your newspaper or TV stations on the subject. Share some of the names (including
   yours, of course) and offer to work with the editor and/or reporters.
   19. Present a noon walk-through finger-food luncheon to selected members of your clientele or community. Join with with other physician authors including a display of your books.
   20. Schedule a signing party at the clinic and enlist the support
   of your staff to organize and promote it.
   21. Offer a 20% discount to current patients who buy a book. Just include a line on the order form that says: "Are you a current patient of Dr. So-and-So's? Yes No. If Yes, you can
   deduct $___ from the price of the book."
   22. On the last page inside the back cover include an order form for additional copies.
   23. Take your book to all local bookstores. Ask to speak to the buyer.
   Most will buy or at least display a few copies.
   24. Your cover probably has an outstanding visual element. Use that illustration as a poster, art for a T-shirt, part of the sign on your office door, desktop displays etc.
   25. Print the name of your book on your office letterhead along with your other credentials (Author, Title of Books), and include it as part of your C.V.

Physician Publishing represents a line of editorial and design work offered by Griffith Publishing, providing book publishing services since 1988.

Choose what you need

We offer top quality services for web design, brochure and posters, book and newsletter design, and logo design. All design projects are one-on-one with an award-winning West Coast designer. We never use templates.

We also offer custom-designed packages for virtually every communication need, including CD and DVD production, audio tapes, group presentations, and business reports.

We don't try to do everything ourselves, and neither should you. We evaluate and choose the best, and you receive the benefits.

Call Joyce Griffith at
800 359-9503