Newsletter swaps is a system whereby authors can
find other authors in their genre who also have a newsletter mailing list full of readers, and they can then exchange book recommendations.
So how do
you find these other authors in your genre to network with?
This directory is intended to help Romance authors
find other authors in their genre and network with them on Facebook.
Not exact matches
Cross-promote by
finding other e-book
authors who write
in your
genre.
It's also worth
finding out whether you've received a fair offer — as
in, an offer that's on par with
other comparable
authors in your
genre or category.
Find online - savvy
authors in your
genre — or compatible
genres — who like to blog, are on Facebook or Twitter, or release content
in other interesting ways (like podcasting).
-- Networking with
other authors in your
genre for mutual support and benefit —
Finding ways to bring a lot of traffic to your and your book (like guest - posting)
Find another
author in your
genre and offer to send book announcements to each
other's mailing lists.
When it comes to
author events, many stores
find that certain
genres are more successful than
others in drawing crowds.
I
find that these promotions, run alongside
other authors in my
genres, are the most satisfying and successful.
You can
find them by searching for book bloggers, also by following
other authors in your
genre or area of expertise to see who's reading them.
The best way to
find an editor is by asking for recommendations from
other authors who have published quality, successful books
in your
genre.
On the
other hand, getting together with fellow
authors in your
genre to do a joint sale or promotion can be very successful, as I
found out teaming up with
other members of the «Official Chick Lit Group» on Facebook.
You need to
find the right sorts of followers — the ones that follow
other authors that write
in a similar
genre.
One of my favorite ways to
find key hashtags that your ideal reader uses is to look at what hashtags
other successful
authors in your
genre are using.
Most
authors like reading; for pleasure, to
find out how
others write successful books
in the
genre or
genres that interest them, or both.
Go to the Etsy home page and type
in some keywords to
find other authors who are selling similar books
in your
genre.
Like the collections
found in the Kindle app, you can organize the Nook books that you've purchased into shelves — group by
genre,
author, or any
other scheme that suits your needs.
Doing targeted marketing at fans of
other similar
authors in the same
genre (Facebook ads etc) would be a perfectly fine strategy to
find new readers for the book, and also help get that «Also bought» positioning.
If you haven't spent time
finding new industry people or
other authors in your
genre to follow, do that now.
So I think if people can... Or ask
other authors, so especially indies, look at the back of people's books and
find editors
in your
genre and then basically, I can't even remember how I
found Jen.