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BAnDillero

Marketing, Advertising, Digital Strategy, & Sales for Authors and Book Publishers

 

I Help Authors Feel Empowered - Not Overwhelmed - By Marketing. 

Since 2007, I've been an author-marketer who has helped indie Authors as well as the 'Big 5' Book Publishers reach new readers, increase ebook sales and continue sustained platform growth. I am well versed in social media marketing, content marketing, organic search & ppc, book landing pages, email marketing, and growth hacking. I deliver high-quality, results-driven strategic processes and programs to help authors sell more books. 

Email Marketing

Get the right readers on your list. Everyone talks about the importance of making your email list bigger. The problem with this common view is that the emphasis is on getting more people, not what kind of people you’re drawing in. Growing your email list is about attracting and retaining your most loyal readers. I'll show you how to center your marketing tactics to attract raving fans of your work.

Book Marketing

I've worked exclusively in the book-marketing space - making apps, writing blurbs, executing marketing campaigns and selling books for the Big 5 Publishers and Established Authors - since 2010. Do you think you know which marketing is working for your books, but you don’t know for sure? I'll show you what has worked for authors like you, and we'll work together to execute the right steps for you to move forward and Sell More Books!

Legacy Building

For paranormal, romance or fantasy authors, I offer legacy marketing services as an Author's Publishing Program Manager. If your titles have generated around 40,000 total downloads, I will help you manage your backlist titles. Commission would be an 80/20 split. Duties include refreshing book metadata, occasional price promotions, increasing SEO and searchability, refreshing book covers and blurbs. Contact me to discuss exact duties and terms.

Platform building

Authors with platforms sell more books. It's that simple.
I'll help you decide on the proper platforms for your titles and we'll target each one for strategic growth. I'll either do the marketing campaigns for you, or help you implement them yourself to make the most out of your marketing dollars. I'll show you how to gain new and meaningful connections that expand your reach and grow your readership.

Let's Get in Touch

 

For an author platform marketing consultation, advice, or speaking inquiries, please call me or fill out the contact form below. I only accept up to two select consulting gigs at one time, so I can be hands-on and provide the desired results. That said, I love talking all things marketing, whether it's on Google Hangout, at your author event or podcast, or over a beer.

(347)829-9338
marquina@authorpreneurlaunch.com

 

 
 
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About My Book - 'TOUGH: Women Who Survived Cancer'

No Woman Should Have To Experience Cancer Alone . . .

TOUGH: Women Who Survived Cancer is the ultimate recovery companion for women facing any type of cancer.

TOUGH is an Award-Winning Finalist in the Women's Issues category of the

2019 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest

 
 

This book is for newly-diagnosed women, survivors, thrivers, & the people who love them. It makes a great gift!

Working from interviews with 37 women with a variety of cancer types, Iliev-Piselli, a survivor herself, has created honest and triumphant essays that will lift readers up like a conversation with good friends (if all your friends had survived cancer!).

During life's most difficult moments, these women found joy in creative pursuits as diverse as they are, including writing, stand up comedy, drawing, air guitar, and many more.

Get ready for honest, inspiring, uplifting, rock-n-rolling, gut-wrenching, heart-pounding, chemo-brain-fueled tales about cancer and its aftermath.

‘TOUGH: Women Who Survived Cancer’

‘TOUGH: Women Who Survived Cancer’

This book isn’t about me. It’s about the women I interviewed, whose stories made me fall in love with every one of them. Their guts and grit – and honesty – blows me away every time I read their essays. Still, I’ll tell you the Cliff’s Notes version of my story, because it introduces the inspiration and intent of TOUGH.

            I’m Marquina – a mother, wife, digital marketer, breast cancer survivor, competitive air guitarist, insufferable karaoke singer, and all-around-goofball living in Brooklyn, NY. In September 2015, I found a small lump in my breast. Everyone said, “It's nothing.” But I end up getting a mammogram, sonogram, and biopsy. It was something alright. I was diagnosed October of 2015, and chemotherapy started November 1st. My last treatment was Halloween of 2016 and I’ve been in remission almost 3 years. 

            In the months after my diagnosis, I experienced uncertainty, sadness, anger, and pure fear. That fear caused me to retreat into myself. I didn’t want to talk to anyone about my diagnosis because it was too painful to relive with each retelling. Each time I would muster the courage to discuss what I was going through, I left the interaction feeling depleted and raw. At a certain point, I didn’t want to talk, walk, smile, or leave my bed. I was short-tempered with my husband and son. I felt stalled. Stuck.

            When I started chemo, I knew that to get through it, I needed to find that one thing that could make going through treatment not sad anymore. I didn’t want to sit for eight hours a day doing nothing and being afraid. I landed on what I called Glam Chemo. I was donated fabulous dresses, jewelry, wigs and crowns. My friend, Eden Di Bianco, who is a make up artist agreed to come in and do my make up for some of my chemo sessions at Weill Cornell Hospital in NY. I put beautiful painted tattoos on my bald head. Casey Fatchett, the photographer who shot my wedding, took pictures of me looking…well, you can see for yourself if you Google “glam chemo” and People magazine, which did a piece on the story.

            I didn't originally plan to go public with the pictures. They were for me, to turn my saddest day into my best day. I wasn’t getting chemo—no! I was in a photo shoot, smiling the whole time. It made it fun. The next day, of course, I always felt terrible. But two days later, Casey would send me the pictures and I’d think, Oh yeah. Amazing!  I might have a raging headache right then, but I’d see the photos and know, Yeah, I can do this. It's okay. It's gonna be all right.

            Every couple weeks I got dressed up and tried to make something special happen in those six to eight hours. It saved me. It saved my spirit. And it still is saving me, because now, I don't look back on that time with fear. Instead, I remember how my friends came together for me. My brother came and we re-enacted some of our childhood photos, which was hilarious—me in a baby bib or a Mickey Mouse t-shirt. My best friend came, and a bunch of fellow air guitarists came (air guitar being another one of my life-saving creative passions). We did trust falls in the lobby, which was not sanctioned. We did it because that's what air guitarists do. We do spontaneous, very, very safe, mildly crazy things.

            I made the best out of chemotherapy I possibly could. Glam Chemo isn’t for everyone, but my experience made me wonder how other women got through it. It also made me want to encourage others to find their thing. It might be something they always wanted to do, but were stopped by fear or inertia. Or it might be something completely unknown to them, until they take the first step. It might be during treatment or after. The question is, what’s that one thing that can save you from sinking down into yourself and retreating from life? What can light you up, even in the worst times, and connect you to a community?

            This line of thinking, along with my inability to find a book that served up a bunch of this kind of stories, lead me to create TOUGH. I went on a six-month journey to find and interview women who had embraced creative pursuits, or found otherwise inspiring ways to weather the emotional earthquake of cancer.

            I found them! Their stories are as diverse as they are: writing, stand-up comedy, lip synching, furniture restoration, quilting, you name it! Working with an editor, I turned their interviews into essays, and the result is a giant, inspiring—but also, often raw—oral history of heroines. My hope is that through TOUGH, any reader can immediately surround herself with a circle of women who get it, and have wisdom to share.

            Get ready for honest, inspiring, uplifting, rock-n-rolling, gut-wrenching, heart-pounding, chemo-brain-fueled tales about cancer and its aftermath.

Visit Amazon.com or BarnesAndNoble.com to purchase TOUGH: Women Who Survived Cancer.

  

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Hey, Marquina here again! In addition to my author marketing career, I am an Art Ambassador to people who have cancer. I create collaborative art projects to uplift and inspire. I'd love to collaborate with you on a project in your town!

 

When diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, I experienced what a lot of others experience - uncertainty, sadness, anger, and pure fear. That fear caused me to retreat into myself. I didn't want to talk to anyone about my diagnosis because it was too painful to relive with each retelling. Each time I would muster the courage to discuss what I was going through, I left the interaction feeling depleted and raw. At a certain point, I didn't want to talk anymore. I only knew I wanted more than this sadness, I wanted to take my life back.

To do so, I began to create...

 

When I made art, it was small at first. Songs and poems were written on the subway as I shuttled to and from troubling doctor appointments. Sketches. Drawings. Searching for hair design inspiration on Pinterest to show my barber, Breidy, so he could shave a cool fade into my slowly balding hair. Looking for a way to not be sad while sitting hours upon hours in the chemo chair, I decided to take my changing outward appearance and use it as a canvas and created what I now call The Glam Chemo Project. Through my project, I showed others how I wanted to face the disease; it gave me a bridge to connect again with friends and bring them on my journey.

 

Since my first project, I have returned to The Breast Center at Weill Cornell to continue creating art-inspired projects for survivors.

 

I'm available to come and speak to your group or organization on how to use art to inspire and relate even at difficult moments. My fees are 5k + travel. Please contact me to inquire about availablity: https://www.marquinamarie.com/contact

 

My speaking fees enable me to further spread my message to other communities.

 

Much Love,

 

Marquina

 

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Marquina Marie Iliev-Piselli I Founder, Author, Survivor, Air Guitarist 

Air Guitar? Yep! It's a thing! Click here for an air guitar intro video.

Become a First Reader for 'Grin & Air It': marquinamarie.com/book

Let's connect! TwitterFacebookPinterestLinkedIn 

The Glam Chemo Project as seen on: Weill Cornell, People MagazineVanity Fair ItaliaGlamChemo.com

Women's Empowerment Project as seen on: Weill CornellThe Today ShowPeople MagazineVanity Fair ItaliaHuffington Post

Online courses available

Choose from several online courses to build your business and sell more books at AuthorpreneurLaunch.com

Choose from several online courses to build your business and sell more books at AuthorpreneurLaunch.com