Self Publishing Q&A with Book Launchers Team - Holiday Edition

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Hello. Hello, and welcome, everyone, to our regular first look book review show, which today has no book review, but instead, I have two lovely guests. Some of you may already know them. We have. And when you are here, by the way, when you say hello, come on in and just say hello, Let us know that you're here so we can give you a shout out. So, yeah, of course. I am Julie Broad and joined today with. And this is mirrored, so it's a little weird. Here we go. I'm joined with Jacqueline Kyle, who is in charge of our client care at Book Launchers, and Sarah Bean, who is in charge of book marketing at Book Launchers. So now is a great time for you guys to ask questions about book marketing, about some funny things that can happen when you upload your books, something Jacqueline's been dealing with lately when she's been uploading some client books, which is really topical, actually, because KDP print taking over or CreateSpace disappearing in KDP print being the one to replace it. Everyone's kind of got a learning curve as we all kind of figure out what works and what doesn't work and what's different. So there's been some interesting learning experiences there. So, yeah, so it's open Q and A. So you just go ahead and. Hey, Amber, welcome. Thanks for saying hello. And so, yeah, so by the way to today is our holiday extravaganza. We should have had Santa hats or something. I didn't even think of that. So, yeah, so it's our holiday extravaganza. So we've got lots of prizes, and the only way to win prizes while watching is to say hello. And we'll probably have some fun ways for you to win prizes as we go along, too. All right, so to kick things off, let me just. You guys can say a few things while I pull up my notes. I can say things. Yeah, say things. Let's see.

This week at Book Launchers, I have been doing lots of loading of books, which is very exciting when you have taken your book from writing to having a physical book in your hands. And it is a lot of fun and it's also very finicky.

Yes. I think we discovered that KDP print covers have to be a slightly different size than the covers that you're uploading to Ingram. So. So if you're like a lot of authors I know and uploading to multiple places, you're going to need to have different sizes for your book covers.

And I would just say that I'm really excited about 2019. I think there are going to be some amazing projects that are coming out in addition to the ones that we've already had come out in the last few months. So can't wait to dive in with a lot of you authors and take your books all the way to launch.

Yeah. And speaking of launches, one of them is right over here. Let's see here. We should have had those over here, too. Kind of.

Whoops.

So I get my exercise today. Okay. All right. So. And again, this is where the mirror is weird. So, yeah, trying not to cover Sarah's face. So, yeah, huge, huge congratulations to Todd. And Todd's book came out and still sitting at number one in the retirement category. Early retirement, Retirement planned retirement planning. That's what it is. And yeah, so when he launched, he launched in that number one spot on the category and he is still number one in that category. So that's pretty fantastic. Congratulations, Todd. Hey, Jeremy. Thanks, Jeremy.

That's so nice to you.

Welcome. So, yeah, we were just saying that to win, you have to be here and you have to say hello. So you guys are already well on your way. So, yeah, I just wanted to start off by giving Todd a huge shout out because his launch was last week and it's going strong, so that's pretty cool. And Todd's book will be one of a few of the prizes that we'll be giving away today. We're just kind of easing into it while people join us. But yeah, if you're just joining us, please do say hello. And yes, Jeremy, you want to win. The odds are good right now that you. And for those of you watching on the replay story, the natural inclination is for me to move this way, which I know moves me off the screen. So, yeah, if you're watching the replay, there are going to be a couple of prizes for those of you who watch on YouTube as a replay, but most of the prizes are for you folks who are here watching us live. Hello, Lynette. Hello. And so Amber says my children's book publishes the 25th, and I learned about covers on KDP over the last couple of weeks. Yeah, definitely a learning experience. Yes. And hello, Lynette. Welcome. Okay, so, Todd, I wanted to say a huge congrats to Todd and then I want to give a shout out to some folks who have been staying such great commenters on the YouTube channel. So huge, huge shout out to April Braswell, Greg Jenkins, Brian Cressman, Ms. Amber Phi O'. Shea. Thank you so much. You guys have been such regular Commenters. And you are in the prize for this week to win as well. So for those of you who are tuning in live and you don't know, or if you're watching the replay and you don't know if you comment the day a video comes out, which is Fridays right now on YouTube. So this is on book launchers TV. You will be entered to win a fabulous prize. And it's usually some pretty cool book launchers. Swag. And I have. I had to order more mugs because they were so popular.

Savannah wiped us.

Lovely. It's so much better when someone else does it. And then instead of me always going, okay, which sign is it? Okay, so, yes, so we have our usual prize, but we also have other prizes today, too. So we'll actually be giving away something right away for all of you early arrivers. But just one sec. Let me check my notes before I do that. Yeah, I think that's it. So the very first prize that we're going to give away is actually a course. We're going to give one of the big, big prizes away right away because you guys were the first to join in. I think you should be rewarded for being here early. Exactly. So if you haven't already said hello, this is the only way you can win is to say hello, and then we'll tell you how you're going to win. But first, we're going to tell you what you can win. So this course is courtesy of my friend Dale Roberts, who runs Dale Roberts Self Publishing channel, another fantastic YouTube channel out there. He has a Do it Yourself self publishing course. So book Launchers, we help you write, publish and sell books. So I can't say we make it necessarily easy because book writing has its challenges no matter how you approach it, but we do a lot of the work for you. We're your professional self publishing team. And so this is really good for business professionals and entrepreneurs and people who are really busy in their careers and they want to use a book to grow their business. Your expertise comes out in the book however you want. Whether you want a writer to write for you, write with you, or. Or a writing coach to coach you will help you through all those ways and then take it through the whole process for you. Dale's course is perfect if you're somebody who's like, I'm going to do it all myself and I just need a little helping hand so I know what comes next. So it's a really comprehensive course to walk you through everything that needs to happen to take your book from idea to published. So great course. A couple points that he teaches in it. How to efficiently research and choose the best niches to publish in. So if you're thinking I want to be a professional author and you want to figure out how you're going to make money as an author, you want to choose good niches unless you've got a passion project you really want to write on. So he's going to walk you through how to do that. He's going to talk about editing and formatting your manuscript, identifying the best possible solution for writing proficiency based on your time and your funds, which is very important criteria. He's also going to talk about book descriptions, promotions that don't cost a lot of money producing book covers and on and on. Thanks. Oh hey, there's Dale. Speak of the devil. We were just talking about your fantastic course, Dale. So it's going to be one of the very first things that we give away right now. So now the question is how do we choose a winner? What do you want to do?

Random number generator?

Yeah, we could do a random number. So somebody can just pick a number and we'll just see who commented and go with that.

Do you want to do that?

Okay. Okay. So you guys pick a number you can't see. I'm hiding the comments from them so they can't have any bias towards this.

Okay, there's 12 comments, so it's 1 through 2.

12.

7. Okay, 7. So we're gonna go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Amber.

Alright. So Amber. And by the way, I'm pretty sure that this course sells for $2,000. I didn't mention that. Dale's here so he can confirm and you can even post a link, Dale, to the page. For those of you who aren't winning, you can go and check out the course. And if you want to be a do it yourself self publisher, then this is a fabulous resource to help you get started and publish. So Amber, congratulations. Send me an email.

And my goal was to get the mug.

Oh, you're Ms. Amber. Oh, that's wonderful. That's great. That's funny. Well, it's a small upgrade. A seven dollar mug versus a $2,000 course. I mean it's the holiday extravaganza. Anything can happen.

She's gonna keep coming back for the month though. She's gonna keep coming back till she gets it.

That's great. So, so email us at Team t a mook launchers.com and with your information, Amber, and we'll hook you up and A huge, huge thank you to Dale. And if you guys aren't already following Dale's YouTube channel, do check it out. Self publishing with Dale. He's really got the cutting edge stuff and lately he's been on an unboxing rampage. So if you're curious what books look like when they come out of all of the different options to do print on demand, you can see all the different options literally over at Dale's channel. Cause he's been an unboxing madman. Good one to check out. Yeah. See even Amber said he did such a great self publishing distributor comparison lately. So. Yeah, that's awesome. All right, so here we go. Yeah. Dale says, hey, what's up? Oh, I came at the right time. Yeah, we just, we just dove in. We're like, okay, first on the scene deserves to be rewarded. Yeah. So we started with a big bang. Hey, Dave. Hi. And Dave's asking, where's Tim? Well, it's getting to be the end of the year and we have a ton of book projects that are working with the writing coach and all going, oh my goodness, I need to finish this book before the end of the year or make sure it's going to be launching early in 2019. So Tim said he couldn't join us today. So he's busy coaching. Many, many.

He's next deep in coaching right now. He's doing a great job.

We have so many fantastic books coming out and I can't wait to tell you about all of the ones that we're working on behind the scenes right now. But yeah, so Tim was too busy, so he didn't join us. But I think he was going to tune in. So you may see him here in the comments somewhere. And if you just tuned in, make sure you say hello. We have a ton of prizes. And if you have questions, questions about book marketing, we've got our book marketing pro in the house. And if you have any questions about the entire self publishing process between Jacqueline and myself, we can answer it. And if we can't, we can point to Dale who could also answer his.

Course is unavailable to the public.

Oh my goodness. I didn't even know that your course. So this course isn't even available. This is really vip. I didn't even know that we were that exclusive. Thanks, Dale.

That's very cool. Thanks to Dale and congrats to Amber.

That's fantastic. And three more books are on the way for self published unboxing. That's pretty incredible. I'm assuming you're saying that because Tim didn't join us. Not because of something we said. Right? Yeah. If you're just tuning in, make sure you say hello, because we're about to give away more prizes. And, Dave, I'll ask you, how should we give away the next prize? Should it be a skill testing question or do you have some other fun way to select a winner? So I'll turn that over to you, Dave, while I get out what the next prize is actually going to be. All right, we need a drum roll. Good job. That probably sounded really, really drama.

Whole mic was going to.

Those of you watching with headphones on. We're sorry. Hey. Hey, Kelly. Good to see you here. You should start charging. Yeah, I know. Probably should. Okay, so there. So no way don't that comes out of our pocket. Never mind. I don't know what he's talking about. He said still, Dave said skill testing. Okay, so now the question is, what is the skill testing question?

All I know is minutia.

Use the word minutiae in a sentence. All right? So the first person to use minutia in a sentence will. In a sentence that makes sense, by the way, will win whatever I'm holding down here. It's going to be a prize reveal, so you'll. You'll find out what you win once we get this sentence. How about that? I can see it.

It's good.

Yeah, It's a good one. It's a good one.

Yeah.

Okay, and while we're doing that, we got to think of how we're gonna give away the next prize. And again, if you guys have questions, now is your time to ask. But otherwise, we'll just be, you know, giving away prizes.

Also a randomizer.

Yes, do that.

I'll do it.

Okay, good plan. Okay, so skill testing question. Oh, here's a question. A real question. Okay, that'll be our third. That'll be our third prize question, Dave. And actually, that' interesting because I know the answer. I don't think we're gonna hazard a guess at all, but I. Yeah, we like our jobs. The answer is zero, but I just gave it away. Sorry. Okay, we'll have to come up with a new question. Okay, so Amber has a real question. Can anyone tell me? I plan to publish on the 25th through KDP? Do I hit the publish button at 12am to make sure it's available for publication, the day of publication, or how does it work?

So I'm just gonna feel this one.

Please do.

When you hit publish, you need to make sure that it loads correctly prior to when you want to publish. There's nothing worse than being on a deadline and saying, okay, I'm going to upload my book right now and hit publish and I need to hit this deadline. And then you have a problem with your cover. It is something that happens quite often. So you'll be able to pre flight your book before you hit publish. So definitely upload it, get all that information in there. And then once you hit publish, it takes one day usually for an ebook to show up all across Amazon and it can take up to 72 hours before it hits all of the markets. Print book wise, it is usually 72 hours before it is completely available everywhere. So if I was you, I'd be uploading the 22nd and telling everyone it's the 25th.

Good answer. Okay, so we were picking the next winner. So for those of you just joining us, make sure you're commenting because we're picking winners from the comments. Plus we have some skill testing questions for you that we're making up. Okay, so she's just, she's randomizing.

I'm randomizing and I'm just checking to make sure I got everybody.

And if you're just joining us, comment.

Now to the Lasting Day prize.

Yes, you'll be just in time. Oh, there's a couple more down there.

Yeah, Here we go.

Okay. And Marnie's here. Yay, Marty.

I'm looking forward to our call tomorrow.

She just posted.

Oh, good. Yeah.

All right, so.

And then one more. Oh, great. Oh, yeah. Okay, great. Okay, so this is for nine names here. Did I miss a prize? Oh, no, but the skill testing question came up and then I gave away the answer. Right, right. So we're going to come up with a new question in the meantime, so. Oh, oh, oh. Let's see. What would be a good question?

This is a skill testing question.

Yeah, something skill testing that wasn't about how many coffees I need to drink because Kelly crushed that answer. Kelly totally knew the right answer. Let's go with, oh, what month is my birthday in? Okay, good, that's good. And Dave, you can't answer. Okay. Especially if you get it wrong. And in the meantime, we have a new prize winner. This is randomly drawn from those of you commenting and saying hello and so who is the winner?

And then I'll tell them what they've won randomly. The winner is amber.

What? Amber. Ms. Amber. It pays to show up early. All right, so you are the proud, proud owner of screaming for how horror makes you happy and healthy. This book is such a great Read. And even if you're not into horror, you probably will love the book anyways. But even if you're not, I bet you there's somebody on your list this holiday season who would love this book. So I will get a copy shipped out to you right away once you email us with your mailing address for both of the prizes. And I think we're gonna say no more prizes for Amber.

Yeah, sorry, Amber.

Sorry, Amber.

But I can attest that even. I mean, this book is really. It's phenomenal. And even if you're not a horror fan, which I can say that I'm not, I was so engrossed and the author just does so much research and makes it so personable. I'm excited for you to check it out.

It really digs down into why things scare you and I. What scares you, Julie?

What scares me?

Yeah.

Oh, the list is long, but snakes are pretty high on that list.

Zombies are on my list. I know that they don't exist, but.

I'm afraid of zombies and hunger. I'm scared of hunger. Okay. And I just have to point something out too, because I just think this book was so beautifully designed and laid out. So I just want to show you guys, because, you know, we're all about books here. Just check out. Hopefully you can kind of translate here. Show it a little closer. There we go. It's just like an example of the layout inside, I think. I think my team did a great job and Scott made great choices, too. So. Yes. So congratulations, Amber. It is a great, great read. Okay, so Rochelle says January, not January. Amber wants us to pick another viewer. That's very sweet, Amber.

Oh, I can do that.

Okay, sure. Yeah, she's. Okay, we'll do that. You did win a $2,000 course. Hey, Lara Treville. Welcome. Hello.

I'm adding you to our randomizer right now.

And Dave's being moderately inappropriate, so we'll just. Okay. So we're still waiting for those of you who joined. We are waiting for somebody to guess the month of my birthday. And you're getting the next prize. And do say hello when you join in, because we are. We're going to randomize another name. I think if you. Yeah, we're going to randomize another name. We still have more prizes to give away. And the next prize we're going to give away is going to be a one hour call with our writing coach. Well, one of our writing coaches, but our main writing coach on our team, who is also an Emmy nominated writer. Fun fact about him is he had a software book, a computer software book, basically. And he came up with an idea for a TV series, pitched it, and ended up writing and starring in a TV series for seven years, which is what he got nominated for an Emmy for. So you get a one hour call with him, which is not available for sale outside of our clients who get to work with him when they're writing their books. So that is going to be the one after. So the randomized one that Sarah's doing. But first, we're still looking for my birth month. Who got it? Okay. May. I love that word.

We're just trying all the money.

June. And yet you still skipped some of them. So anyways, May, June, July, October.

Oh, that's crazy ones.

That's the prize I want. January, you want the writing coach call is what you're trying to go for. So that's good. You're in the random draw, Jeremy, you're still up there. February, there you go. You got it. However, that wasn't the writing coach prize, I'm afraid. The prize that you got was the Leverage Equation, which is another fantastic book, by the way. My background's in real estate, so I've read a ton of financial planning type books and I kind of was like, oh, leverage, whatever. Like buy real estate. That's leverage. And this book barely talked about real estate. Real estate's only a tiny, tiny thing. And in fact, it's not even really the leverages. So much more. And I was fascinated by this. I think every business owner, savvy financial planner should read this because he talks about, you know, making more of your time, making more of your money, making more of your knowledge and yeah, very, very cool, useful book. So, Jeremy, you're still in the draw for the writing coach on the randomizer, but email us@teamoklaunchers.com and we'll send you this book. And if it's not for you, then I bet you there's somebody on your list who will be a great candidate for this book because it is really, really, really great. Really excited about it.

What I find really fascinating about this book is every time you read it, you get something new out of it because it is something that you build upon. And so you may come in with one piece and you learn how to tweak it and make it a little bit better. And the next time you read it, you go, oh, now I'm onto this piece and I can learn how to, you know, really maximize it. So it gives some really great advice.

And I think it appeals to different phases in your life too.

So it'll.

Certain parts will speak to you more than others, and then you'll read it again later and you'll get much more out of it. Yeah, it's a good one.

Great. I love it. All right, so let me see if there's any other prize comments. Hey, April. Welcome. Hello.

Adding you to our randomizer.

Okay. And trivial. Did you get trivial in there?

I got trivial.

Okay.

And I got Laura.

Gotcha. Yep. Great. Awesome. Okay. Are we redoing?

Amber wanted to send someone else.

Oh, yeah. Somebody else could win. So we'll. We'll do the writing coach, and then we'll go back to the book. So we're gonna do the writing coach call next. And we're using the randomizer for this. So if you haven't already said hello, then it's too late for the writing coach call.

Managed to get into your live, albeit late. All right, April.

Oh, yeah. I got you. You're in the draw. Okay.

So ready?

I won't pound the table this time in case that was disturbing for you guys. All right.

Technical errors. Sorry.

Yeah. So trivial. How you get involved. We have skill testing questions, so you're just gonna have to take a guess when we have those come up. And we also. If you're just commenting and joining in the fun, that also gets you entered to win. And then if you have other questions, we're doing open Q and A. It's a great time to ask us questions. We already had one really great question that Jacqueline handled masterfully. So if you guys have other questions, we can try to showcase our knowledge. Otherwise, we'll just keep giving stuff away. We've got at least another 10 minutes worth of giveaways. Yeah, we do. Sorry, guys.

I had to, like, reload the whole thing, But I'm getting everybody in there and.

Got it. And yes, and April says, reading really does help us build our business. Businesses. And that's right. Jeremy. Hey, Jeremy. Oh, hey. How about that? This is a randomizer.

It is a randomizer.

That's hilarious.

Yeah. That's so funny. So, Jeremy, congratulations. You wanted that writing coach call, so you got it. So now you can win. You've won. What's with us winning two people in a row here?

I don't know.

So, Jeremy and Amber, you've won your prizes for the day. All right, so skill testing question. We did Birthday. Name. Okay, this will be the last question about me, just because when I'm thinking of it, I'm like, so name one city other than Los Angeles that I have lived in. Again, Dave can't qualify for this. So there you go. Name one city that I've lived in other than Los Angeles, and then you will be the prize. Is that screaming for pleasure? We're re gifting Amber's prize because she was kind enough to say I already won a fantastic course, so take it away someone else. Alright, so that's the skill testing question. You go ahead and type that in. You have to come up with the next skill testing question. So you think about that while we're waiting for the answers and getting more comments here. Okay. All right, cool. Here we go. Writing coach. Writing coach.

Writing coach.

It's gone. But we have. You know what's really cool, April, you'll like this one. We have a one hour call with Sarah who is our book marketing pro. She has worked on lots of book projects. She's worked booking speakers into speaking gigs. So she's got tons of expertise around bookmark marketing. And I know you've got books coming out, April, so that will be a great one for you. So that is coming up. All right, congrats. Is being shouted to Jeremy. Toss the randomizer, David.

Yeah, it's not a good one. I had to look for a new one.

I mean not.

I'm glad Amber and Jeremy won, but we're gonna, we're gonna mix it up here.

Yeah. And so I'm just waiting for prizes. Congratulations, Jeremy. Orlando. Good guess. Good guess. Kelly. Sweet. I'll pick a winner. All right, now you're making me blush. Okay, Orlando. No, but good guess, Marnie. Wow, you nailed it. Nailed it. Nanaimo. That's correct. So, and that was, was that for the call with. With Sarah, which you already get. I thought that was. Oh no, that's for Scott's book, right? Yeah, yeah, that was the regift. Okay, good. I was like, well, that's kind of. We'll have to give you something else, but perfect. So Marnie, you are now the proud owner of this book. And we already gave it a good spiel earlier, so I won't go into it again. But it is a great gift or a great read or both. So there you go. Congratulations and thank you. Hey, that's great. I'm so thrilled you nailed it. Okay, so for the writing or Sorry. For the book marketing, we have to do something special. What should we do? That should be another randomizer. Do you have a better randomizer? I do. I picked one. Yeah. So we're gonna do the call with Sarah will be another randomized thing. So if you haven't already said hello, make sure you've got your name in the list and she'll get you entered there. And we also will have another skill testing question because we have two more books to give away. So you want to give them the skill testing question while she's randomizing? Sure. I was curious.

We have a ton of comments.

I know. Well, people guessing where I live. Actually, some of you people are in fact, right as well. So Nanaimo was absolutely. It's kind of where I call home. When I go home, I go home to Nanaimo. So Marnie, nailed it. Seattle is a good guess. Never lived anywhere in the States except for Los Angeles, though. So all answers in Canada would have been pretty safe. Vancouver. Kelly is correct. I've also lived in Vancouver, New York. Nope. New York City.

No.

I know, I seem really big city, don't I? Montreal. Nope. Las Vegas. No, but I love Las Vegas. Vegas is eventually second. Dave attests to my love of Vegas. It's mostly my love of poker. But yes, I have this thing for Vegas because there's a poker table everywhere. So yeah, Marnie, fun. Okay. Denver. Nope. So, yeah, Canada. You could have guessed Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, Victoria, Vancouver, and Nanaimo. I think that's it. I think that's all of the cities I've lived in. Also a small town called Bassano, which I would have fallen off my chair if someone guessed that. If you did, you were stalking my Facebook profile.

Okay, April, if you're having trouble, try reloading the page sometimes. That solves the issue.

Yeah, yeah. So April said she's having a sound leg. I don't know if any. Nobody else has said anything, so that might. Reloading might help you. April, Dale says nice cover. Yeah. Was that the screaming for pleasure one? Yeah, I love that cover. Okay, trivial skills. Poker skills. Skill skills.

Okay, we're caught up, so I'm ready to randomize. All right, hitting the button. And Kelly.

Kelly Roberts. Yeah, she could. You guys can exchange. Anyway, so Kelly, congratulations. That actually would be a really interesting call for the two of you to exchange. Kelly does a lot of no content books, so, yeah, it'll be a fun.

So we're gonna have a back and forth and see what we can pick.

Up from each other.

I'm excited about that.

That's awesome. So congratulations and thank you for being here. All right, so Jacqueline has a question for another one of the two books that we have left to give away today.

So I have an industry question. So in America, the big ebook distributor is Kindle on Amazon. And in Canada, the big one is Kobo, and they have recently made a play and a deal with a major retailer in America to break into the American market. Do you know which retailer it is?

If you've been reading the launch letter, then you should know this because I talked about this very recently, so that's a good one. And if you're not getting the launch letter, you should be going to book launchers.com when we're done and signing up there so that you get. It only comes out every two weeks, and there's lots of great tips and keeps you up to date on important things like that. All right, so let's see. Yeah, I did kind of live in Las Vegas with. I miss it. It was a quarterly visit to Vegas. All right. Oh, Trevila, you play poker, too? Oh, we'll have to get together. Just don't beat me, because then it makes me sad. Okay. Don't take my money. Okay. Leg here, too. Oh, you got a leg, too. Well, it could be our Internet here, but, Dave, are you having any legs? Is it working okay for you? Holy cuss words, people. What? I don't. Oh, I think she's cussing over there, not writing cuss words. Okay, Amazon. Katie P. Can I win twice? Yeah, Kelly and Dale are gonna know these answers. You can win twice, Kelly, but I have. Appreciate you holding back and giving someone else a try, but if nobody gets it soon, then yes. And this the next prize. The next prize that we're giving away, you might enjoy. Or again, it might be a good. A good fit for someone on your list. So. You never know.

Books make amazing stocking.

All right. Barnes and Noble. I don't know. Nope, nope. Not Lulu. Oh, somebody cheated. Well, I guess it's not cheating. It's being resourceful. We'll call you. But, Amber, you're not on the list. We'll just. Oh, there we. And Kelly did get it. Yeah. All right, so we're waiting for someone else to just copy the correct answer that has already been said. Yeah. In the meantime, trying to think. Oh, I have to give. We have our Friday commenter, so. And again, I'm actually gonna. Just because I had a printing issue today, so I don't know if this is gonna mess you guys up, but these are my names. I'm going to. Can I send this to you, Sarah, and you can randomize it. That's what I'll do. Okay. So how do I. I think it's.

The arrow in the top, right?

Yeah. So don't mind us as we're just staring. It looks like we're staring blankly at you guys right now. But I'm actually sending.

Sorry, I don't know why I'm doing mime. I just figured I'd give you something to look at.

Okay.

Sorry, guys.

There we go. Okay, so perfect.

Yeah, just send that to me.

If it would send, why is it not sending? Doesn't have the send option.

That has never happened before.

How about just a random number generator and we can.

Yeah, we might have to do that. Okay, so can you give me a random number and we'll just pick from that. Oops, I lost you guys. Let me close that.

Out of how many?

I don't know. That may mean we have to count.

And it looks like about 15.

16, 23, 16. All right, here we go. This is for the YouTube book launchers mug for the Friday commenters. So we're gonna go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. Mandy Lynn. So, Mandy Lynn, congratulations. That is for this. So email us@teamoklaunchers.com with your mailing address and as long as you are in North America, I will ship one of these lovely mugs to you. And yeah, and if you want to win one of those mugs, all you have to do is tune in on Fridays when videos come out. And by the way, in 2019, big news. I'm going to be releasing two videos per week, Tuesdays and Fridays. So you're going to have twice the chance to win book launchers mugs. And I'm working on developing some new cool swag stuff I haven't given away before, so you'll be entered to win that stuff too. So. Plus, I do give my regular commenters a shout out in the videos because I appreciate you guys so much. All right, now our next prize. Let's see if we found a winner. Google is how I kill my characters. What do you. I'm curious about this, Amber. So do you type in you know how to kill someone into Google? Because that could probably put you on some flag lists.

That's how to hide the body.

How to hide a body. Yeah. Dave actually has a. Did a little short film on how to hide him. How to hide a dead body.

Thank you. I'm reading the comments.

Thank you, Dave. Sarah did some epic miming. Now, I thought I was transported to France. Okay, there we go. Rachelle. Walmart. Yay.

Thank you.

Congratulations, Rachelle. Same thing. Email us@teamoklaunchers.com and we haven't been writing down who's been winning what.

I won't have to watch the video.

We'll have to watch it. They'll be proof. So you can't fool me, but do send me an email and tell me what you want, make my job easier. So that was for.

I can remember what you just did.

That was that. Yes.

We have not talked about that.

We have not talked about what you just won. You won the Elephant in the Gym, which is another fantastic book. And this one, the subtitle is your body positive guide to writing your own health and fitness story. And really, it's an explanation. No, not quite. There's an explanation of kind of why the fitness industry doesn't want you to actually lose weight and get fit, because then they wouldn't have clients. Right. So this is really a different approach than just another fad diet and just another, you know, another different way of exercising. It's not like a new workout regime. It's not a new diet. It's really an entirely new approach. Approach to getting healthy. Feeling great. Yeah.

So I actually. This book got me back into the gym, and I hired a personal trainer, and he tried to get me to step on the scale and do all the things, and I was like, you know what? Elf in the Gym tells me that I just need to go with how I feel and what I want to feel like, and I want to be able to run 10 miles and feel.

Good at the end of it again.

That's the goal. Not a pound result, so. And he had a hard time wrapping his brain around that one.

Yeah. Sounds like he needs to get a copy of this book. I know.

I kind of want to bring it.

In, be like, yeah, for everybody.

And another one. I just. It's just another beautifully designed book. So I just have to show you guys again because I just think my team's done such a great job of these books. So, yeah, just another.

And another great thing about this book for Rochelle to be aware of and anyone who wants to pick it up is that we've been working with Gillian. She is doing a ton of extra stuff that you get if you read the book. She's doing Facebook groups with exclusive coaching. She's doing a course. She's doing things that are coming up soon.

Sorry, guys.

She's had some great media coverage on the book. She's been featured in Weight Watchers Canada and all sorts of really interesting things. She's incredibly interactive with her audience. This is a huge marketing.

Yes.

Please interact with your audience as much as possible. So if you pick up the book, you're going to get to interact with Jillian in all sorts of amazing ways. So I can't recommend it enough.

Awesome. So yeah, I'm just. Hey, Dale, I just spammed you. Okay, April. April, you're making new friends, Dale. So awesome. And yes, do connect with Dale Roberts. If you guys haven't already been such such a great supporter. Always so much good information too. So if something new is happening and I'm like, I gotta get up to speed on this, I go to Taylor's channel now. You know my insider secret.

Marnie asked if you were doing any of your books. Yeah, I saw that.

I skimmed past it. But we could. Yes, Marnie asked if we were going to give away some of my books and we could. So in the future we could do it today. I just didn't plan on it. I don't know why. I was too busy. I'm just so proud and focused on my clients books that I kind of forgot about mine. Honestly, I do have one more book to give away. Not a client's book, but it was a book I reviewed here on the channel and I loved it and I just thought it would be great for all of you folks wanting to write a book. It's called don't write a crappy book and it's by James Ranson and he graciously agreed to give away a copy to someone. So if you're in the States, he'll ship you a physical copy. If you are anywhere else, he'll ship you. By that I mean email you a PDF or E version of the book for your reading pleasure. So that is our next book prize. And Sarah, what is the skill testing question to now let's do. No, you gotta use your brain this time. Well, we have a lot of comments to catch up on. So April does write really long quality comments on my videos to raise my video engagement and please the YouTube. She does. So if you guys want to see how to be an amazing YouTube supporter, check out what April does on my channel. She writes really, really great comments and adds value to everybody checking out the comments too. So thank you so much, April. You'll definitely end up winning a mug. I know there's a mug in your future at the bare minimum.

And the mugs are like the perfect Keurig, like full Keurig size and just like one creamer. And it's perfectly filled.

It's wonderful. That's funny. And Amber says my Google history would have me on a lot of lists. She says she's relying on a friend in the FBI to keep her doorbell quiet. I don't know if that's a strategy or not, but good luck. If suddenly Ms. Amber stops commenting on my YouTube videos, I will, you know, call someone and say, hey, did she get picked up? It was for her book, so it wasn't real. And Dave says, we're having too much fun. He doesn't think we're actually at work. But you missed the three and a half hours of meetings we had prior to this. Okay, she's got a question. This is for the James Ransom.

This is for the book. And if you have watched any of the other book launchers videos that I've done in the past. I did a couple of videos.

I did one video last month.

I did a zoom call that's been uploaded. I've talked to some of you on the phone about what my history is. So to win the book, where did I. One of the two jobs that I started my career in, publishing. It might be kind of tough, like.

What you did, or do they have to know the exact name of the company?

No, they don't know the name of the company. Just general job title. I've talked about this a number of times. Julie's talked about it in her newsletters. So if you have ever watched a video or had a phone call with.

Me or watched the videos before, you.

May have caught this.

Yeah, good one. And April, actually. Her book actually does go deeply into some of that stuff. So April was just commenting about, you know, an old diet and some of the things and. Yeah, so there's. There's actually her books. Really comprehensive. It's hard to summarize it. I kind of gave the marketing spiel, but it's. It's really. Actually touches on the emotional side of the things that you need to address to feel better. And it's not just about I feel okay. It is definitely deeper than that, for sure. Hey, open James Ranson's book to page 178. And it's Dale. So, yes, Dale. Dale is featured in James book. I don't know why I didn't get featured. Maybe because he didn't. I didn't know him yet. That's probably it. He didn't exclude me on purpose, I'm sure. But, yeah, excellent book. And Dave was saying mime again. Were you miming again?

I was. No, I didn't do miming again. I can do it again if you like.

I wasn't before. Are you trying to be like Jackson and go mime? Do It. Do it. So Marnie gets it. I would say that's right. Don't you think so? It's close enough. Yes. All right, so, Marnie, you. You are now the proud winner of James Ranson's Don't Write a Crappy Book. So just email me@teamokonshares.com please, just so I know and I remember, because the chances of me going back over this video to remember who everybody was, I.

Have most of them.

There's one I'm missing. But I got most of the prizes right here. Awesome. Okay, cool.

Congrats, Marnie.

Yeah. Nobody would purposely exclude you, Julie. Thank you. Okay, so we have one more prize, I believe. Just checking through my brain here.

We've done the mug.

We did the Dale Roberts course.

We did three of our most recent launches.

We did writing coach.

We did an hour call with me. We did the second book, Don't Write a Crappy Book.

That's right.

Is there anything else we do?

We have one more of Dale's course. Oh, wow. So we're gonna actually. I have several more of Dale's course. So this is what I'm gonna do. I'm gon one more live and then I'm going for those of you watching the replay, because I don't want to leave the replay out because I know some of you just couldn't make it. You have mean bosses who don't understand the importance of watching us give away prizes for an hour. So if you're watching the replay and you've stuck to this point, put a comment in that says, I stuck with you. Okay? That's all you have to do. I stuck with you, and I will. What's the date today? Today's the 11th. So on December 20th, because that's the workday I'm doing next week, December 20th, I will draw your name. I'll go live on Facebook probably, and just draw your name from anybody who says I stuck with it. And you'll be entered to win. Here's what I'm gonna do. You'll be entered to win Dale's course and both of my books. There you go. So that's what I'll give. There'll be two prizes. It'll be both of my books and Dale's course. And that's for the replay. Now we have one more of Dale's fantastic do it yourself self publishing course. If you weren't here earlier, I gave a pretty good rundown on some of the key points that are in this course. It is not available for Sale right now. It is exclusively for you fabulous people. And all you need to do right now to win is. Are we going to do randomizer for it? What should we do?

We can do randomizer.

Let's do it.

Got it.

Ready? Okay, we've got randomizer.

Let's just see.

Hold on. Let's see if there's any last entrance. Right. Let's make sure. Yes. Team book launchers. That's correct. Yes. Me course. Yes. Yes. Oh, hey, you made it.

Hi, Talena.

I stuck with you. Now what you have to do is go put that on YouTube and then you can be entered into to win the prizes.

All right, you ready?

Yes. All right.

I'm running this and my phone doesn't want to work.

Lynette. Yay, Lynette. And so, yes, thank you so much, Dale, for fantastic prize. And when it is available live for the public, please let us know. Give us a link so that we can share it with everybody who did not win this exclusive, exclusive course to help them with all of the steps along the way. And thank you to everybody for tuning in today. It was really great to have you all here and have you participate. It says we have 174 comments today.

Amazing.

I love these days. That's pretty extraordinary. So thank you so much. And thank you to Jacqueline and Sarah for joining us today as well. And again, if you're watching the replay, Are you climbing the tree?

I don't know how to mime. I'm just trying to keep some movement on there.

Oh, my goodness. I didn't know the skills that these folks have. I do not know. You never know. I really have an extraordinary team. They're just two of the many people on the team, but I'm learning new things every single day. So, yeah, thank you so much for being here. And if you're watching the replay, do give it a thumbs up. And dude, right? I stuck with you because you can win prizes. And again, 2019 new videos every Tuesday, every Friday. And then we'll enter you to win. If you comment on the day a video is released, we'll enter you to win a mug or some other cool swag that we will have out in 2019. So thank you, everybody. Have a safe and fun holiday season. And we'll be back live with you again in 2019.

Bye bye, everybody.