Thank you for visiting our website.  We plan a series of enhancements in the future, which will provide additional information about the members of our group that wish to participate.  We intend to provide profile information about our participating authors to allow you, the visitors to our
website, to learn about their respective books, marketing projects, and thoughts.

I am contacted all the time about the need for various speakers.  We usually have a guest speaker attend our meetings.  We would be honored to consider people to speak before our group.  Examples of our speakers have included:


***An attorney discuss legal authors that pertain to authors.

***A program director from a radio station address our group about how to approach a radio station to discuss your book.

***Newspaper reporters speak about how to approach a newspaper to discuss your book for a story.

***A local author, who was paid a six figure advance to sign with a major publisher, described how he did it.  More importantly,he shared how, if your follow his advice, how you can do it too.


If you wish to speak before our group, you will be requested to submit an audiotape. 

We are striving for EXCELLENCE as we move forward.  For the benefit of our members, we want to hear your enthusiasm about the product and service you provide. 

If you are a published author, we want to hear ideas and strategies you have used that will help our members market and sell THEIR books.  More information on this issue can be verbally explained.

We would love to hear from you.  If you have any comments or questions, you can contact Jim Durkin at the e-mail address listed below.  Also, include in the subject line a comment to indicate how you heard of us. 

An example is
"Authors Marketing Group---Website (Question)"



James T. Durkin
Co-Founder, Authors Marketing Group
james@authorsmarketinggroup.org"