When we chat with
authors about their book launch, the same things often come up: a signing in a book store, a few giveaways to reviewers / journalists and an email to the mailing list.
To learn more, see yesterday's blog post, as well as previous posts
about her book launch party and 7 Low - cost Examples of Author Book Marketing Best Practices.
«You mean I have to try to get on radio stations nationwide, and have a crazy - active Twitter account, and have a blog, and also do a blog tour, and have book signings, and worry about getting my book in bookstores, and have book reviews, and write a newsletter, and have a book trailer, and do speaking engagements, and
what about a book launch?
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The other fascinating
thing about this book launch is that he's crowdfunding the project through Kickstarter, and therefore will know exactly how many books he needs to print.
I also interview bestselling authors Amanda Young, Valerie Gangas, Sharon Hamilton, Jen Levitz, and Laila
Ali about their book launch plans.
It, luckily, corresponded with a new release so the newsletter had
details about the book launch, a couple of recipes (standard fare for my list), a plea to follow me on Instagram (more on that below), and an invitation to enter a giveaway for one of the 25 free downloads.
There are many different tactics for spreading the word
about your book launch day, but one of the tools we use with our authors every time is called Thunderclap.
Then I
heard about the book launch taking place at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto last night, and invited myself along.
This week at Indie Publishing Austin, we talked
about Book Launches.
Whilst we are here, talking
about book launches — please do join us in June for the launch of Snapshots III, BookMachine on Publishing, in London, Oxford, Cambridge or Brighton.