Think back to the last time you saw a book
signing at your local bookstore.
Can't arrange
a signing at your local bookstore?
I did a book
signing at a local bookstore that netted me more connections than money, but it was well worth it.
Offer to do a book
signing at a local bookstore (note that the store will take a percentage of your profits).
Go to writing groups, other author
signings at your local bookstore, and larger events like expos and conventions.
Fiction authors should consider getting their book on Netgalley, partnering with a local business to host a book launch, or setting up a book
signing at a local bookstore.
If every author does a reading or a book
signing at the local bookstore, how are you supposed to stand out?
Now, I know, your official author dreams included book
signings at your local bookstore.
Not exact matches
Our team specializes in creating and promoting events with built - in audiences
at unique off - site venues or with
bookstores if you would be paired with a
local author or group panel, or simply going in for a meet - and - greet with booksellers where you
sign stock copies of your book.
I believe I need more than two sets of eyes to edit my books, I need to market my books, and sell my books
at conferences, and
local bookstores through book
signings.
I've had moderate success, but mostly
at the
local bookstore and book
signings.
But, I do have
at least eight reviews on amazon, managed to get my book in our
local library, doing a book
signing this Saturday
at the
local bookstore / café, and had a sequel night there two weeks ago.
However, when it comes to a book becoming an international success, a small book
signing at a
local independent
bookstore might help gather some
local attention but will do very little for selling hundreds of thousands of copies.
I learned how to write a press release, how to set up an author website, who to talk to
at bookstores to set up a
signing, and which of the
local newspapers were willing to do a story on me and my book.
If the book is in print and available
at their
local bookstore they can offer to do a reading or to
sign stock copies.
Someone might remember meeting you
at a convention or seeing you
at a
signing in the
local bookstore.
So you have an author website, a couple of social media sites for your book, and you've even done a
signing or two
at your
local bookstore.
I don't have a lot of experience in this arena being a debut author, but I do know some
local bookstores are open to indie authors holding
signings at their locations, and usually the author does a reading from the book as well.
I'm not a global bestselling author just yet, but I have just completed my first book
signing and Digitox is on the shelves, not only in my
local bookstores, but also in Waterstones, WHSmiths, Blackwells, and even
at Blenheim Palace, the ancestral home of Winston Churchill.
-- Audience: An author appearing
at their
local bookstore is as close to a sure fire hit as you can get since authors can, generally speaking, get their friends / neighbors / colleagues to show up a book
signing and buy books.
If they show up for the
signing at the
local independent
bookstore on Tuesday evening, that doesn't leave very many people attending the
signing at the Barnes & Noble half a mile away that Saturday (or vice versa).
It seemed a perfect fit: Moore has a book to promote (he told the crowd
at the
bookstore last night that he had no interest in doing
signings at big chain stores), and St. Mark's Bookshop is itself in trouble, and has asked its landlord, Cooper Union, the private engineering, architecture and art college, to reduce its $ 20,000 monthly rent (with backup from a
local petition and a community board resolution).