I went into overdrive then and studied as
much about book promotion as I could, while working with a group of beta readers to help me refine the very rough draft of the book I had.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
That way,
book marketing,
promotion, and learning
about the industry I've become avidly interested in, becomes
much more fun.
So, because I'm a glutton for punishment, I decided to publish a
much more detailed
book about self - publishing — from writing through to post-launch
promotions.
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.
If you got, also
book reviews, or press releases in Italian or English on this
book promotion site, the process to sell your
book in the places, where Italian readers are, will be
much easier, because Italian
book sellers and Italian
book clubs you contacted will read the link with information in the Italian language
about your
book and will become interested in buying it!
You don't know how
much time I've wasted combing blogs for your email address so I can contact you to ask a question
about your blog, ask you to guest blog, or ask you to participate in something that might help you with
book promotion.
When you've scheduled a
book promotion interview, or when your
book publicist has scheduled one for you, get as
much information
about the interviewer as you can.
So stop obsessing
about the numbers, and remember the point of a
book promotion campaign: to gain as
much visibility for your
book, and for you, as possible, and let people come to the conclusion — over the long haul — that they want to buy your
book.
Micro-blogging helped me come at
book promotion from a spirit of giving and inviting, and not so
much about «pay attention to me and buy my stuff!»
Your presentation, because it's related to your
book's content, will be a subtle
book promotion, and that is SO
much better than a presentation based on «here's what my
book is
about and why you should buy it.»
How
much should learn
about book promotion before you submit or sell (and would you like to learn more)?
If this model holds, then there might be a chance writers can once again return to their primary title as writers, period, and not have to worry (as
much)
about promotion and schmoozing or wasting time chatting on Twitter when they ought to be writing their
book, not chatting with 14 - year - old Bieber - ites who don't have time or interest to read anything beyond 140 characters anyway.