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The only promotional tool for that is to work harder
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Re: succesful ways to promote
"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” Stephen King
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I will be at the Grand Valley Festival in Orwell, Ohio August 17, 18 and 19 Signing copies of the Golden Staff Saga: The Pillar of Light. I will let everyone know how successful it was afterwards.
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I'm in Spain and writing in English so it doesn't help for me to do physical promotions locally. I do my promotions online.
I blog regularly, I use Twitter and Facebook to connect with readers and authors, and I make use of KDP select to do free promotions. I always list details of my free promotion on all of the Kindle sites, send details to my list of subscribers from my website, set up a Goodreads events etc. and then also arrange advertising for a few days following the free promotion to keep the momentum going. It's worked out really well.
I blog regularly, I use Twitter and Facebook to connect with readers and authors, and I make use of KDP select to do free promotions. I always list details of my free promotion on all of the Kindle sites, send details to my list of subscribers from my website, set up a Goodreads events etc. and then also arrange advertising for a few days following the free promotion to keep the momentum going. It's worked out really well.
Claire Ridgway, best-selling author of The Anne Boleyn Collection and The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown, Tudor history addict and indie publishing blogger.
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if a book could talk it would take 3 days to tell its tale. YOU have to speak for your work before anyone else is going to take the time to actually read it. (And speak quickly, for attention spans are shrinking!) Networking is one way of getting your foot in the door to give that initial pitch.
Secondly, in a world with lots of talent, success requires more than simply being great. If two deserving submissions are under consideration by an editor, which one do you think will be accepted? – The one written by the author who did the more effective networking, of course!
Secondly, in a world with lots of talent, success requires more than simply being great. If two deserving submissions are under consideration by an editor, which one do you think will be accepted? – The one written by the author who did the more effective networking, of course!
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I've been marketing heavily through twitter... but I believe I need to:
1) Develop a more global outlook to both my book and tweets...
2) Find new ways of promotion.
My book is not out yet. But I plan to do some serious promoting. I am trying the e-world currently because my audience is English speakers and I am in a country where another language is mainly spoken. Oh and I have a website up already. Just can't begin to get people to visit it though.
1) Develop a more global outlook to both my book and tweets...
2) Find new ways of promotion.
My book is not out yet. But I plan to do some serious promoting. I am trying the e-world currently because my audience is English speakers and I am in a country where another language is mainly spoken. Oh and I have a website up already. Just can't begin to get people to visit it though.
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Re: succesful ways to promote
I attended the Grand Valley Festival and sold a few books there. I also created a booklet containing the first chapter as well as my website and gave those to people who looked interested. The festival was smaller than I expected with only about 100 visitors to my table. This could be a good way to promote a book if you can get a table at a larger festival.