Sentences with phrase «n't on book promotion»

My mind wasn't on book promotion.

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But for now I am leveraging this program to boost my book's visibility and sales on a monthly basis in a way I never could if it didn't exist (One Blood was downloaded 5,276 times during a 1 day promotion in January 2013 and has been downloaded a total of 15,122 times since December 2011).

Which you probably aren't: unless you do a ton of clever promotion and marketing — which you aren't going to do, because you don't know how, and even if you hire a publicist, they'll focus on TV and radio and old school methods that don't actually impact book sales.

«Fauzia Burke has been on the web promoting books from the very beginning... She knows exactly what kinds of web promotion will drive book sales, and doesn't waste your time or money with distractions.»

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).

I parted company with HarperCollins after my last book launch and have since taken back control of not just «brand Polly Courtney» but all the component parts of the publishing process: editing (I use a professional freelance editor as well as crowd - sourced readers) and cover design (I work directly with a designer, who has also worked on the second editions for my first two novels), production and distribution (I use Troubador Publishing) as well as promotion — which I'm finding far easier to do now that I'm proud of the product I'm promoting!

The one you are not allowed to promote is the Kindle edition, some will argue you can but this is an area when the TOS do state you can have 5 days of promotion on amazon for free, where people can download your book at no cost, and you don't earn any income.

Do not run an ebook promotion without any reviews on your book.

I politely asked them to escalate the problem as having a book on promotion achieve a rank below 5,000 in the Amazon store, and still only have a couple of hundred pages read didn't make any sense.

While it's true that not every successful author (indie or otherwise) falls back on a mailing list for promotion, it's a tool that has helped numerous authors go from obscurity to making a living with book royalties.

Obviously they've done something to push the book — not traditional promotions, but something on the Amazon site — because more than one author has seen this level of sustained success.

It's exactly what I needed to get me started on finding reviewers for my recently self - published book (and I'm following the advice to such an extent I'm not going to mention its title in shameless self - promotion, but rest assured there are very few Tottie Limejuices out there).

A new author with few contacts and little experience must take on the challenge, not that they are expected to be a partner in promotion of their book, but that the promotion of their book is ALL on them.

Watching your book vanish after a month on the shelves without promotion is considered not being good enough.

If your book's price has not been reduced on the day of the promo, we will be unable to give you a refund or reschedule your promotion.

Turning to more promotion when something doesn't sell is a fear - based decision based on ignorance of what sells books.)

In essence, the only people who go on these book promotion pages are other authors, not people who read books.

Follow - on sales do not happen all in 1 or 2 days after your paid book promotion with us.

What type of book promotions don't work on you as a reader?

In this blog I touch on the difficulty of gaining initial interest, not liking my book cover, feeling abandoned, and doing a great deal of my own book promotion.

This is very hard concept for many indie writers to grasp, thus all the constant talk about promotion and price - changing because a book doesn't sell instantly on one site to some magic idea by the writer of what it should sell or what some friend's book sold.

Other times, the interviewer has no interest in the author or in the topic; the assignment editor, producer, or other media decision maker foisted the author on the interviewer, and that's just not the recipe for a book promotion success.

In short, I can't offer you a scientific formula for deciding how much money to spend on a book promotion campaign.

Our Instant Response Media Campaigns fill gaps — which authors always find frustrating and disappointing — left by the old - fashioned approach to book promotion that says «once we've contacted the media, we're finished» or «sorry, but we can't promote you until your book is on the shelves.»

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).

Don't make your book publicist play guessing games when you embark on a book promotion partnership with her.

Even with all the things I've learned about book promotion and positioning on Amazon, some books just don't take off.

Your editing «line item» will likely be a third of what's allotted for book promotion, assuming you're not spending thousands on a book trailer or swanky swag.

When I launched my book on KDP Direct, their rules state that I can not run a «free» promotion until after it has been published for 1 month.

I was wondering if I sign up for the free book promotion and did not get accepted can I go back and sign up for the paid promotion to make sure I get accepted and be on next weeks newsletter?

If the price does not match on the day of your promotion, we will not include your book and will be unable to grant a refund.

Kobo's platform isn't great: they are perpetually fixing one issue or another with their number tracking, loading books, or interface, but once you make an account and post a book the first thing you can and should do is send them an email to ask if they can turn on the promotions tab for you.

Like any aspect of book promotion, your success depends on the quality of your content and your long - term commitment to trying things and adapting to what is and isn't working.

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.

Find a book publicist who can help you take leverage those eBook promotion opportunities so you won't be left behind... and you won't be left wondering how, on Earth, you can get the traditional book publicity venues to take your eBook seriously!

Genre It would be nice if all books were created equal, but they are not, and your genre is going to have a huge impact on the success of your free promotion.

One last note here, when you're doing your category research, books priced at $ 0.99 are probably on promotion so may not be representative of the top - ranking books in the category.

If you're not Canadian, or you're looking for a self - publishing course that also covers book promotion, I always recommend the How To Become a Bestselling Author on Amazon Kindle course.

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.

15 Authors Running Fantastic Book Promotions on Instagram (Diana Urban for BookBub): I'm a big believer that authors shouldn't try to reinvent the wheel for their marketing campaigns.

Agents also, at times, helped on the promotion side of things, making sure a book didn't get forgotten inside a publishing house.

And since the onus of marketing is vastly on me and my coauthor (something else many self - publishing authors don't realize — they'll have to do the majority of book promotion themselves regardless of how they publish), there hasn't been a real advantage to going the trad route.

Can you promote your book even though it is not on a promotion or free.

I mean, who doesn't see an appearance on «Oprah» as the greatest book promotion opportunity of all time?

Real publishing success depends only on readers loving and sharing your book, and that's something you can't fix with advertising, marketing or promotion.

Still... there are all sorts of book promotion activities that you can engage in that do not depend on real humans being at the other end of their email accounts or telephones.