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How To Promote Your Book
1. Make a Twitter account and begin to follow other writers you admire. Build a following of your own and begin to promote your book. Tweet small excerpts or reviews you have received. 2. Do a book promotion. Give a few copies of your book away...
6 Tips for Making a Better eBook Cover
While indie authors are often advised to hire professional book cover designers, the truth is that sometimes budget does not allow for hiring a professional. In some cases, the author may not even have the budget to purchase a pre-made cover, or may prefer to...
When to Pay to Advertise and When to Save Your Money
There are heading for a million books published every year in the USA alone, so competition worldwide in all genres is fierce, especially when you remember bestsellers go on selling. To Kill a Mockingbird has sold forty million copies since it was published in 1960,...
Author Interviews as a Marketing Tool
You may have already done an online interview, and very likely more than one if you have an author page on Facebook, Goodreads, Instagram, Pinterest or Google. I’ve even been offered them through messages on Twitter. Did they increase your book sales during the time you were...
How YouTube Can Help Your Book
YouTube, a free video sharing website, boasts more than one billion users watching videos every month. This makes YouTube a wonderful tool for authors looking to get more readers and buyers for their books. With more than one billion active users watching videos every month, there...
YouTube Promotional Strategies
YouTube is a free video sharing website that has more than one billion users watching videos every month. This makes it the perfect tool for authors looking to promote their books to online viewers. There are three main strategies used by authors to promote their...
Express Yourself
When creating a book, whether it is in the graphic novel, humor, fiction, memoir, professional development, social science or cultural studies genres, one thing that you must consider is the demographics. While your book can be of interest to anyone, knowing and understanding your market...
How Authors Can Get Free Publicity
Most authors like reading; for pleasure, to find out how others write successful books in the genre or genres that interest them, or both. The cheapest, and most readily available are eBooks and Amazon is the biggest provider, and very likely where you buy yours, download them...
Four Mistakes New Authors Make When Approaching Bloggers & How to Fix Them
As a book blogger with a few years' experience under my belt, I have seen new self-published authors make some mistakes when approaching book bloggers. Below are the four most common mistakes new authors make when approaching bloggers and how to fix them: Mistake #1: Randomly...
Indie Authors - "The End"...Now What?
Authors are passionate, creative individuals who have stories to tell. These authors have labored countless hours over their characters, have lost precious sleep going over the finer points of their stories’ plot development, have missed important family events in order to agonize over their stories...