What are your five favorite books, and why?
Gosh! Have I even READ five books? Seriously, I am a very slow reader, and so I have not read much. I often joke about having written more books than I have read. In fact, my all-time favourites are Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. We read Charles Dickens in school, and they were great books, but just too complex grammatically for me to really enjoy reading them. A Tale of Two Cities is one of the best.
What book marketing techniques have been most effective for you?
One-on-one direct marketing. I have a few close friends/fans who promote hard copies of my books the same way I do, which is to offer them to people on the streets for whatever they wish to donate for them. I've always received enough to cover the cost of printing more of them, and when there are profits, I have been able to use them to subsidise the Easy English books for schools in Third World countries. In 2014 I was able to get out over 400,000 books in those two ways (street distributing and subsidised books in schools).
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