OCS Media Agency will help you implement your marketing plan and increase your chances of garnering media coverage. From drafting and distributing press releases to following-up with media contracts. OCS will work with you to promote your book and generate media interest. We will help you successfully launch a regional, national or targeted non-fiction and fiction marketing campaign.

We will help you compile a list of publishers in your books subject area; send for those publishers’ catalogs and manuscript preparation guidelines, current contact names, and other information:

• Create a one-page query letter to submit to the publishers
• Follow-up with editors that queries were sent to.
• Locate publishers that pay a royalty

 We will produce a press kit for you and your books, including a press release and a full color Fact Sheet and Author biography sheet;

Customized business cards (if requested), postcards, rack cards and posters designed to promote your book (Client will be charged accordingly);

Review and approve professionally written press release for distribution to targeted media outlets;

Follow-up with media outlets, and send review copies of your book upon request;

We will send out queries to solicit stage plays, film and other large production deals;

Set-up and maintain your Social Media Service (This service establishes your brand and your titles in nontraditional online outlets, which increases your potential viral impact. Your readers can easily know what’s going on with you and pass your message on to friends:

• Create & maintain a Facebook page for your identity as an author
• Create & maintain a Facebook page for your book
• Create & maintain a Shelfari social book account
• Create & maintain a Goodreads social book account
• Create & maintain a LibraryThing book-cataloging account
• Create & maintain a Twitter micro-blogging account

 Terms:  Agent receives 20% commission on domestic & foreign sales. OCS charges client for expenses, postage and mail services.

Here are some additional responsibilities that I will do as your PR Agent:

Make sure that your books reaches a wide audience

Interview Release: written to highlight your expertise and topics you can discuss in an interview

We will distribute your press materials, handle all media inquiries, schedule interviews based on your schedule:

Personally pitch your story for interviews and feature stories and follow-up on pitching efforts

Utilize a vast network of media contacts

Secure the maximum amount of media coverage for you and your book

You will receive a weekly update on any press you’ve received, upcoming pitching efforts and campaign direction

Solicit book signings in a specific geographic area

Research to develop a media list that makes sense for your books and goals. This list may include: 

For additional information, photos, request for appearances and interviews for
OCS Media Agency clients, please contact:
Keasha Howard-Charles, President
OCS Media Agency
P.O. Box 253
Toll free# & Fax: (888) 988-8551
or (336) 602-7885
Email: khc@OCSMediaAgency.com

Go to OCS client page: Mary Ross Smith

Soul Survivor by Mary Ross Smith This book conveys the message that obstacles can be overcome, no matter the circumstances... Life is worth living. This remarkable story is a must read about one persons struggle for survival and how she did it. "Soul Survivor" is a gripping memoir of Mary Ross Smith as a child and young adult. "Little Mary" spent her childhood living, playing and working in a family owned funeral home. She often times found that the mortuary was the only place where she could find peace, and her only true friends laid in caskets. You will marvel at the famous entertainers that passed through Smith’s life, and were her mentors, include: Lou Rawls and Johnny Cochran, and regular home visitors such as Redd Foxx, Sam Cook, and Billy Preston.

PRESS RELEASES

2.1.09        OCS Media Agency named the official PR/Media agency for Arizona based Author, Mary Ross Smith

2.2.09        Bookwhirl.com

2.9.09        Soul Survivor book promotion - Her Only True Friends were Dead People

About OCS

Our Community Source, LLC founded in 2007 by Keasha Howard Charles, President & CEO of the OCS brand. Ms. Howard Charles developed & designed OurCommunitySource.com, a direct marketing web portal to host her Marketing & Advertising companies, which consist of a Residential Social Networking site. OCS Marketing & Advertising. OCS Media Agency a Public Relations firm. S'anJeliK Apparel Brand.

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