Social Media Maven Ananda Leeke Discusses How Authors Use Social Media at Capital BookFest

PR Log (Press Release) – Sep 28, 2009 – Washington, DC - Ananda Leeke, an author and social media strategist, will discuss how authors can use social media to market their books and build a reader audience during a panel discussion on “Everything You Wanted to Know about Getting Published” held on Saturday, October 3, from 12:20 p.m. to 1:20 p.m. at the fifth annual Capital BookFest in Largo, Maryland. Authors Kevin Johnson, Donna Hill, and Charisse Carney Nunes will also participate in the panel discussion held inside of Borders Bookstore, 931A Capital Centre Boulevard, Largo, MD 20774. For more information, visit www.captialbookfest.org.

Leeke (www.anandaleeke.com) is a lawyer turned blogger, online community manager, radio host, social media strategist, author, artist, creativity coach, and yoga teacher. She currently serves as the D.C. Social Media Examiner for Examiner.com:  www.examiner.com/x-24564-DC-Social-Media-Examiner.  Her first Internet encounter occurred when she heard AOL’s “you’ve got mail” in 1995. It was love at first click! A year later, she began working for The Hamilton Securities Group, Inc., an investment bank and financial software firm, where she established an intellectual property protection program for the firm’s Internet products and services. Leeke served as an online content contributor for NetNoir.com's Gospel and Women's Channels from 2001 to 2002. She launched her first blog in 2005 and used social media tools to market her books, Love’s Troubadours – Karma: Book One (2007) and That Which Awakens Me: A Creative Woman’s Poetic Memoir of Self-Discovery (2009). She enjoys attending blogging conferences such as Blogging While Brown, Fem 2.0, BlogHer, and Blogalicious.

Learn more about Leeke by reading her author blog at http://authoranandaleeke.wordpress.com and yoga blog at http://kgyoga.blogspot.com.  Take her online yoga classes offered on www.stickam.com/anandaleeke.com. Follow her on Twitter: http://twitter.com/anandaleeke.  Watch Ananda Leeke TV for interesting webisodes about Leeke’s creative and yoga adventures: www.youtube.com/anandaleeke. Join her Facebook Fan page and receive updates about her events: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ananda-Leeke/68996700906.