I get more questions from
authors about book promotion than any other topic.
Not exact matches
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Author websites and multimedia production for
book marketing and
book promotion.
Get
book reviews and
promotions,
book information,
author interviews and other related articles on my blog Frequency
about 2 posts per week.
There's an active debate in
author circles
about the effectiveness of guest posts as a
book promotion tool.
Yes, blog tours represent a
book promotion opportunity that most
authors, publishers, and
book publicists have known
about for awhile.
That said, I can see her method would be helpful in two specific ways: a) potentially more buzz and / or Amazon algorithm friendliness, and b) forcing
authors to focus on production first and not worrying
about promotion until later in the series (as there would be nothing released to promote until 5
books in).
One
author who also had intimate knowledge of independent
book stores, talked to her publisher, asked probing questions
about their plans for
book promotion for her
book, and then chose to self - publisher her own
book.
Our policies reward
authors who are proactive
about the
promotion and marketing of their
books.
So,
authors, I'm
about to share with you some of this
book publicist's advice
about mistakes
authors make with interviews — and how to avoid them — to maximize your chances of
book promotion success.
To make this
promotion exciting for even the people who already have all 3
books, we organized a private Google + Hangout and the four of us talked
about a whole load of things for both new
authors and more advanced stuff.
In a recent interview MediaShower interview, Ms. Miller shares advice
about online
book promotion and
author publicity.
When it comes to
book promotion she knows what she's talking
about and indie
authors should listen — and act.
Mentioned in the video: Kevin Kruse's «15 Secrets Successful People Know
About Time Management»: http://amzn.to/1TJO8B0 Steve / SJ Scott's
Author Page: http://amzn.to/1UjxpRL K
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«As a first - time
author, I had a lot to learn
about independent publishing and the task of
book promotion.
It sounds ridiculously naive to me when indie
authors talk
about book marketing or
promotion.
I ended up learning so much
about the process of keywords,
book categories,
author mailing lists, and other aspects of
book promotion, that I decided to start my own authority website to freely share my knowledge with other
authors.
Echoing those car stickers that you see in rear windscreens saying things like «My Other Car is a Porsche», my other blog is
about book promotion, offering tips to
authors on how to sell more of their
books.
As a premium member there is everything a new
author needs to know
about book promotion from marketing, taxes,
book covers, and optimizing sales.
So
authors contact me and say «I'm curious
about what it would take to launch a
book promotion campaign for my self - published
book» too late for me to steer them toward the most information they could find: they haven't really self - published at all.
Authors use temporarily free
promotions to get the word out
about their
book.
Before you open your mouth and say something ignorant
about this, remember that Joe Konrath is just ONE
author that was a midlister who got zero support /
promotion once a
book was published.
Years of training and coaching
authors has helped me uncover what most do and don't know
about book promotion.
This could be seriously good news for unknown
authors who are launching, or who are
about to launch,
book promotion campaigns.
David Graughan's blog is on industry news, helpful post in
book promotion, and frequently
about avoiding vanity presses that don't offer a good value for your money like the one owned and used by a number of the big 5 (
author solutions).
Another
author who tried to run a
promotion reported that when he contacted the company
about a refund, they just attacked his
book and said it was low quality which was why it didn't do better.
There's a lot out there
about book marketing and
book promotion, specifically for indie
authors, but I've decided there isn't enough
about promoting a series.
The reason indie
authors often contact other
book publicists (and seek additional
book promotion opportunities) after enduring a fruitless long - term relationship with another
book publicist is because, when a
book's
about to be published, an
author and publisher's common sense seems to kick in.
I make a note to warn my clients
about the potential to be ambushed by this host, and I always give
authors the option of taking known - to - be combative interviewers off my list of media targets as we proceed with
book promotion campaigns.
With that type of competition, and
promotion left to
authors, it's no wonder the average print
book today only sells
about 250 copies per year.
Most
authors want to use their
book as what they're giving away but, again, think
about whether your new — and therefore mostly unknown —
book is really the best thing to motivate people to take part in your
promotion.
For example, there may have been no more than 40 people or so in a fast - paced, tweet - storm of a session on what
authors need to know and do
about promotion and publicity for their
books.
Authors and publishers are welcome to visit Smith Publicity at BookExpo America 2013 — held in the Javits Center in NYC, May 30 to June 1 — to meet us and ask any questions
about book publicity and
promotion.
An invitation to speak at a local library, a handout asking for
authors with interesting
books and interesting stories to appear on either a regular or Internet radio show, teachers eager to bring their
book into their school library, not to mention the opportunity to learn ever so much
about book promotion from the more seasoned
authors.
An Associated Press reporter saw the article in the local paper, contacted the
author, and wrote a story
about her
book promotion.
This group is hosted by Body and Soul Publishing but Christian
authors and readers are free to post
about books that are free either via a
promotion or giveaway, etc..
When I talk to
authors about their
promotions sometimes they feel strongly that discounting the
book by $ 1 or $ 2 is sufficient to drive sales.
But if the same
author tweets five times a day
about the progress of her
book promotion campaign («I just sent out 3 email pitches to the media,» «A national radio show producer is on vacation this week and won't be checking his email — that leaves two pitches that might come through,» «Just received an auto response from a producer, so who knows what might happen,» «I received a random phone call from a high school classmate and pitched my
book to her,» and «I just sold a coworker a copy of my
book»), that's going to get old pretty quickly.
Once you've installed the
Author Cats software onto your WordPress site, you'll get access to our built in author website template, customizable landing pages, upsell pages, thank - you pages, book showcase pages, joint promotion pages, book delivery pages, events pages, and everything else you need (like your blog, about page, privacy policy, and
Author Cats software onto your WordPress site, you'll get access to our built in
author website template, customizable landing pages, upsell pages, thank - you pages, book showcase pages, joint promotion pages, book delivery pages, events pages, and everything else you need (like your blog, about page, privacy policy, and
author website template, customizable landing pages, upsell pages, thank - you pages,
book showcase pages, joint
promotion pages,
book delivery pages, events pages, and everything else you need (like your blog,
about page, privacy policy, and more).
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book clubs —
book signings — swag (bookmarks, pens, postcards, etc)-- guest blog guest blog guest blog (and not only
about your
book and how wonderful your toenails are)-- interviews (give and do for others)-- don't argue with reviewers (from The
Author CEO Naomi Blackburn)-- giveaways,
promotions, etc. — email newsletter (aka, email marketing)-- Give back, for fuck's sake.
You can learn more
about her by visiting her
book promoting blog at: Lyon Book and Social Media Promotions and visit her Amazon Author Page at: Author, Catherine Townsend - Lyon «Book and Social Media Promoting is my Passion!&ra
book promoting blog at: Lyon
Book and Social Media Promotions and visit her Amazon Author Page at: Author, Catherine Townsend - Lyon «Book and Social Media Promoting is my Passion!&ra
Book and Social Media
Promotions and visit her Amazon
Author Page at:
Author, Catherine Townsend - Lyon «
Book and Social Media Promoting is my Passion!&ra
Book and Social Media Promoting is my Passion!»
Just
about any
author who's interested in
book promotion — or that soon will be the case.
Authors, on the other hand, may have mixed feelings
about online
book promotion.
-LSB-...] The Creative Penn — «How To Hit The USA Today Bestseller List As A Single
Author With Ad Stacking» Again, another article that isn't solely talking
about Facebook Ads but talks
about the use of multiple outlets to during a
promotion period to sell
books.
A Houston Chronicle article talks
about book promotion from the different perspectives of several successful
authors including Rebecca Skloot,
author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and others.
Publishers, faced with shrinking
book promotion budgets, are more excited than ever
about telling
authors to promote their own
books online.
Apart from the methods of
promotion mentioned here, there are probably hundreds of others that
authors can use to tell people
about their
books.
So why don't all
authors get excited
about book giveaways as part of their
book promotion campaigns?
The
Book Standard has published an article about another new trend: journalists who write books and then have book promotion opportunities handed to them on a silver platter via «serious» news venues that may well ignore other authors who are not as well connec
Book Standard has published an article
about another new trend: journalists who write
books and then have
book promotion opportunities handed to them on a silver platter via «serious» news venues that may well ignore other authors who are not as well connec
book promotion opportunities handed to them on a silver platter via «serious» news venues that may well ignore other
authors who are not as well connected.
-- It took me thirty minutes to do the front matter, set up a table of contents, title pages, and
about the
author page at the end of the
book with
promotion for other collections.
The
author page is where you don't have to worry
about post frequency or too much
promotion: the people that like your
author page like it because they want to know everything
about your
book, from readings and events to reviews.