{"id":7262,"date":"2012-10-22T19:46:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T00:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisatener.local\/?p=7262"},"modified":"2024-09-30T09:00:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:00:27","slug":"how-to-get-blurbs-from-bestselling-authors-and-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/2012\/10\/how-to-get-blurbs-from-bestselling-authors-and-celebrities\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get Blurbs from Bestselling Authors and Celebrities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Author Stacy Corrigan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Bring Your Book to Life<\/a> Graduate Stacy Corrigan<\/a>, author of Manifest Your Man<\/em>, sent me her blurbs, I was impressed\u2014they included bestselling authors Marci Shimoff, Joe Vitale and Bob Doyle, as well as Jeanna Gabellini, who co-authored Life Lessons for Mastering the Law of Attraction: 7 Essential Ingredients for Living a Prosperous Life<\/em><\/a> <\/em>with Jack Canfield, Eva Gregory and Mark Victor Hansen.<\/p>\n

I told Stacy I\u2019d love to know how she got these great endorsements so I could share the strategies with my blog readers. Here\u2019s what she said:<\/p>\n

\u201cI acquired Marci Shimoff\u2019s endorsement after doing research for my twitter campaign. I wanted to have some celebrity endorsements as Eli Davidson suggested in her Be Famous Now<\/strong><\/em> program, but I didn’t want to go the traditional celebrity route: I wanted to stick with Law of Attraction celebrities.\u00a0 While researching celebrities, I discovered Marci planned to be in Chicago the next weekend.<\/p>\n

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Stacy’s book got endorsements from 3 bestselling authors so far.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI changed my plans and stayed with my Mastermind partner, Anna, in Chicago.\u00a0 The event offered a luncheon on Saturday for 300 women and an optional VIP reception on Friday evening.\u00a0 There were only 20 women at the VIP event Friday and Marci graciously gave me\u00a0a 15 minute private pow wow of advice, and agreed to endorse my book.<\/p>\n

\u201cJeanna Gabellini is my business coach.\u00a0 She heartily agreed to write an endorsement for my book and asked, \u2018If you could have anyone write your foreword and blurbs, who would it be and why?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI shared my list of desired people and she told me she knew two of them personally and one owed her a favor!\u00a0 She contacted Bob Doyle, who enthusiastically agreed to write my foreword, and Joe Vitale, who responded with an endorsement immediately.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had been willing to settle. After getting a \u201cno\u201d from a bestselling law of attraction author who also wrote a dating book, I thought I\u2019d just have a client write my foreword. The universe rose up to support me and basically said, \u2018You will NOT settle,\u2019 and delivered even more than I asked for, which is what I often find to be true once we open our hearts and minds to the possibility!\u201d<\/p>\n

Stacy’s experience reminded me of my own. When my co-authors and I were looking for blurbs for The Ultimate Guide to Transforming Anger<\/em>, we first searched for an anger expert. There seemed to be just one household name in anger at the time and she said she didn\u2019t give blurbs at all. We did get blurbs from a couple of anger experts, but we also wanted someone who was a household name to our readers\u2014someone they knew and trusted.<\/p>\n

So we thought about who we knew and Peaco was friends with Amy Tan\u2014they\u2019d been in a writing circle together years before. While Amy wasn\u2019t an anger expert, she was a household name for many of the people in our target audience. And she could write more personally about her experience of the book. She wrote us a great blurb.<\/p>\n

The take-aways:<\/p>\n