The majority of authors I know are struggling to
find readers for their books, and the majority of their books are really good or at least ideal for a particular niche of readers.
It's a convenient way to keep your existing readers engaged and generate new leads or, in other words, find
new readers for your books.
With that big caveat out of the way, let's talk about how to find
beta readers for your book and ensure you have an A + experience with them!
I'm not sure whether I would give this many copies away again, but it was a great way to find
early readers for my book and get some feedback.
There is enough time to get things done, there are
enough readers for your book to find its place, there is enough room in the market for it.
Here's the way traditional commercial book publishing has worked for a long, long time — they take a financial risk to find
unknown readers for your book.
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One might argue that if I'm simply looking
for readers for my books — and as a student of Nick Stephenson's Your First 10,000 Readers course, indeed I am seeking readers — then I should just start writing thrillers, or mysteries or horror, since they are already selling in an electronic form.
By the time Susan Ee queried Axelrod about representation, her Young Adult novel Angelfall had already collected over 90 reviews on Amazon and 230 ratings on Goodreads, with an average of 4.5 — 5 stars, and the book had been nominated
by readers for the book bloggers» Cybils Award for the 2011 Best YA Fantasy.
She's ticked all the boxes for building an author platform by using an extensive number of social media networks, YouTube and a website to
attract readers for her book.
What the teen panel also shared were the number of ways to reach these
teen readers for book discovery — Instagram (book covers), YouTube (book trailers), Facebook (ads), and Tumblr (photos of book covers and highlighted passages).
Getting the attention of random people is not enough anymore, you need to make sure that all your book marketing efforts are focused on finding the
RIGHT readers for your books.
Authors who build a team of
early readers for their book are securing fans who will help them read the ARC, suggest edits, and then give it a review.
Like a successful marketing plan, honing in on your
target reader for the book will help readers identify with the message and get more out of it.
It's been a fun year and I appreciate the support from family, friends, colleagues, my writing group, and bookstores, libraries, and organizations that have been readers or helped
find readers for this book.
Using Pinterest is another great way to find
readers for your books.
I strongly believe that there is
a reader for every book.
While you may want to find
readers for the book you already have, instead of writing a new one, the painful reality is that if you're a self - publishing author who only ever writes one book, your chances of succeeding with it in a meaningful way are very low.
Watch the video below, listen to the podcast, read the writeup, and learn how to find more
readers for your books!
Online conversations represent potential markets for a book according to book marketer Peter McCarthy who argued that there are far more potential
readers for each book than is ever reached.
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What are 3 tips you can offer for Indie authors on finding
readers for their books?
Because this new video app from Twitter might not help you reach the right
readers for your book.
Bookbub is a service that helps find new
readers for your book.
You can also make sure to link your books to trending topics as these topics get more views from readers, which could attract potential buyers /
readers for your books.
That is, the sole purpose of announcing your books to the world and finding
readers for those books.