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Gary D. Robson

AUTHOR & FREELANCE WRITER

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  • Who Pooped BooksA fun series of children’s books about animal scat & tracks.
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  • Nonfiction BooksLocal history, closed captioning, book signings, and much more.
    • Gary’s Guide to Successful Book Signings
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    • The Very Best of the Red Lodge Local Rag
    • A Tea Journey: Your Personal Tea Cupping Journal
    • Alternative Realtime Careers
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    • The Court Reporter’s Guide to Cyberspace
    • Growing Up on Memory Lane
  • Fiction BooksMyths & Legends and my upcoming fantasy series
    • The Bounds of MagicThe first book in the Tryllevær Saga
    • Myths & Legends of Tea, Vol 1
  • Other WorkCaptioning, freelance writing, nonprofit consulting, and more.
    • Book Signing TipsThe most-read posts on my blog. They inspired my book for authors
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Category: Books

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11 ideas for promoting your new book

8 Nov 20258 Nov 2025
It's a shock to the system. Really. You've finished your book, you've either landed a contract with a traditional publisher or made arrangements to self-publish. You're sitting back, waiting for…
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Gotchas in Book Contracts

27 Feb 2025
When I had an opportunity to move from self-publishing to traditional publishing years ago, I didn't think I needed a literary agent. I landed contracts through personal connections and highly-targeted…
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An updated state-by-state look at the Who Pooped series

19 Nov 20175 May 2023
A few years ago, I got to wondering how many different states were covered by my Who Pooped? series, and it led to a blog post that is now obsolete, as…
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Merchandising for Libraries Keynote

29 Oct 20165 May 2023
One of the best things about teaching and giving seminars is that it makes you think about subjects you might not otherwise have thought about. I was approached by Edmaker…
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Bookselling by the Numbers

18 Oct 20167 Jan 2022
Last week at the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA) fall tradeshow, I put on a seminar titled Bookselling by the Numbers, where I discussed some of the various…
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See you in the Big Apple!

16 Jun 20161 Feb 2023
Next week, I head to New York City on a book tour. The schedule still isn't completely nailed down—why have a final schedule a week before the trip?—but I'd love to…
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When being an author is fun

25 May 20165 May 2023
Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their…
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The end of an era … and start of a new one

2 May 20165 May 2023
UPDATE 2018: We are back in Red Lodge, but not with a bookstore. Phoenix Pearl Tea is our tea and game business on Broadway, right next door to where Red…
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A peek inside the cashflow of writing books

7 Jul 20155 May 2023
I was poking around on Quora and came across an interesting juxtaposition of questions: Neither of these is an unusual question. Quora is filled with people asking how to make money…

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