The things that you want to know when you visit your favorite writer's website are the same things
your potential readers want to know about you.
How many times do my readers and
potential readers want to hear from me a month / year?
Some of
my potential readers want a Kindle version FROM Amazon as they are tech - phobic and don't want to follow Smashword's very simple directions for downloading to their Kindle.
Your blurbs are interesting and make
your potential readers want to know more.
Hardly
any potential reader wants to know your daily word count or your rejection sorrows.
You need to make sure the preview is such that it doesn't leave
your potential readers wanting to throw their tablet, phone or computer through the wall.
Not exact matches
Because some groups have thousands of members or more — and are therefore filled with
potential readers and customers — they are ripe targets for spammers, as well as for well - meaning content creators who just
want to spread their messages as far and wide as they can, without due concern for where it gets placed.
Gentle
readers, As we approach the long Memorial Day weekend full of the
potential for all kinds of free time, I
want to share another date idea from the book 52 Uncommon Dates by Randy Southern.
A good cinematic book trailer is the type of thing that
potential readers will
want to share with their friends, literary websites will
want to write articles on, and brands the author as a professional with a multimedia digital marketing campaign, a force to be reckoned with.
Probably (1) get bought — or at least read; (2) make you money; (3) if self - published, get snagged by a «big house» and do more of [1] and [2]; (4) establish you as an «expert» or «authority» in its topic field; (5) get
potential readers to
want to know -LSB-...]
However, some
potential readers do not
want publishers to email them (or even, have no email addresses), but will accept postal mail.
If multiple
readers point something out, then it is not a difference of opinion, there is merit and if you
want your message conveyed to its best
potential, you need to address that concern.
Rather than changing the title of the book, adding a subtitle that gives
potential readers a better sense of what the book is helps not just ensure the book turns up in a
readers search results but is also easily distinguished from what the
reader doesn't
want.
Your website may be where
potential readers come to decide whether they
want to buy a copy.
You
want this person to approach your blurb the way a
potential reader would.
All I
wanted to do was entertain the
potential reader.
You don't
want potential readers to get so bogged down by details that they get bored and move on to someone else's book.
Because good reviews (and even bad reviews) can help
potential readers decide they
want to purchase your book, giving the book away to
readers who are likely to post an online review is the easiest way to accomplish this.
When you speak to book buyers,
potential readers or media representatives, you
want to have a short, crisp and compelling reason why someone should buy your book.
With a limited amount of space to tell a
potential reader why your book is worth their time and money, you'll
want to make sure each word sells your book.
If you
want to sell your book directly to
readers and receive higher royalties, but don't
want to deal with the
potential time and complications associated with fulfilling orders yourself, we offer this convenient, affordable alternative.
To connect with your
potential readers, garner reviews, and promote your book, you'll
want a Goodreads profile.
«It's a recreation of the actual newspaper that was released the day of Bartow's execution — I
wanted something to grab a
potential reader's eye — which is why the noose and headline are there.»
The stories are common, but authors seem to keep them private because they do nt»
want to be seen as complaining or negative by
potential readers.
Your
potential ideal
reader is someone who you'll
want to either educate, entertain, enlighten, or inform.
This cover started out strong — the typography is on its way to being effective — but whatever gave this guy that bad case of the blurries is not the sort of thing you
want potential readers wondering about.
Because of this, we sometimes lose sight of the fact that our
potential readers have to catch up and learn what we've known all along — that our books are fantastic and they really need and really
want to read them.
Remember you
want your title and cover to give as much information as possible to your
potential reader without confusing or overwhelming them.
Establish an author platform (again, months or maybe even years before the release of your book) through a blog / website and sites like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. and create a network of
potential readers and other people in the industry through your author platform who are likely to
want to know about, spread the word about, read and / or buy your book.
As for why it's digital - only, as opposed to digital - first, Reynolds said he
wanted to focus on the marketing challenge of getting
potential readers to find the comic in a digital format, and he added that this doesn't necessarily mean that more digital - only comics will be forthcoming.
Reviews are one area of
potential «influence» that may be pernicious for authors, especially if writers don't maintain a firm distinction between what
readers say they
want and what is actually good for a book — or for the project the author set out to accomplish.
You don't
want potential readers to be turned off by a public argument in the middle of your book's reviews — having a nice attitude online will be much more effective in the long run!
With that in mind, you
want to get those
potential readers off Facebook, and into your mailing list, ASAP.
Even though the romance genre requires a happy ending,
readers still
want to see a hint upfront of his
potential to be better.
Pick some topics
potential readers would be interested in or
want to learn about, and blog about them.
The genre of book, the audience you
want to target as
potential readers, and the «hook» that will make people
want to read the book will all be factors in what marketing and promotional methods you choose.
You
want to state these things to help spark your
potential readers visual image of your story.
I know it's harsh when we first enter that hard cold world of marketing and sales, but indie writers will benefit immensely by remembering that
potential readers spend a maximum of three seconds to decide whether or not they
want to learn more about a book.
Laying out back cover endorsements should be done in a strategic way that compels a
potential reader to
want to explore the contents of the book, and ultimately purchase it to indulge in the interesting content within.
The genre of book, the audience you
want to target as
potential readers, and the «hook» that will make people
want to read the book are all factors in what marketing and promotional methods you choose.
You'll
want a book cover design that speaks to
potential readers, who will need to instantly understand what your book is about.
You don't
want to bombard your
potential readers with testimonials when they first land on your page.
Any action that you
want your
readers or
potential readers to take.
This should tell publishers that there might be some
potential in developing their own e-reading apps, especially if they were able to offer incentives for in - app purchasing, but by and large, that would require
readers to not only know the title and possibly author of the book they
want to purchase, but even to know the publisher in order to search in the correct app.
It's sad to see a series with great
potential exit the magazine, but this is something we
want our
readers to be able to experience.
If you
want to be successful at selling today, you need to quit pushing your needs (please buy my book) and messages at
potential readers and concentrate on figuring out how to pull them in by putting their needs above yours.
Do you really
want to lose out on
potential readers?
When you speak to book buyers,
potential readers, or media representatives, you
want to have a quick and compelling reason why someone should buy your book.
But on the other hand, having contact information from
readers who express an interest in a particular title or genre is valuable information for discovering what the audience
wants to read, so
potential for losing an ebook sale is outweighed by gaining a customer.
Your book cover is your ultimate point - of - purchase sales pitch for your book, so you
want to be sure it appeals to and entices your
potential readers!