Time Management for Writers, Artists & Creatives
Hi everyone! I am guest posting on these topics over at The Blog Society. Read the post here!
Category: Writing Tips
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Today the lovely (and fellow INFJ personality type) Lauren Sapala let me be featured on her blog. Click here to read the post.
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I’m writing a series about villains and bad guys over on my other blog. Click here to read the latest Q&A with TV & film actor Alan Smyth, who has appeared as a fantastic villain in CSI NY, Leverage, and NCIS.
Amazon Self-Publishing and Book Promotion
If you’re a self-published author, chances are you want more readers. We all do, and somehow finding more readers and promoting our books is the great and eternal mystery.
How do we get our first 100 readers?
Will anyone else read our work besides our friends and family?
How can we spread the word, rise above the low book sales and learn how to promote our books on Amazon and other vendors?
The Answer?
By focusing our marketing efforts in a spherical way, always trying new and different ways to reach potential readers.
When I took the plunge into self-publishing my books on Amazon and other vendors back in 2013, I didn’t know how to get my first 100 readers. I didn’t even know how to get my first 10 readers.
Sound familiar?
Then you’ve come to the right place. I took the good and bad that I’ve learned over the last several years in self-publishing and created a free email course on book promotion.
It’s called Marketing for Authors.
In this free course, I explain the steps I took to go from 0 readers to Amazon bestselling author. Here’s what you’ll get in this free course:
- 7 modules (sent by email over the course of 2 weeks) that go into finding readers, using social media, creating a newsletter and staying in touch with readers, and more.
- 2 bonuses: a list of all book/author promo Facebook groups you can join AND a listing of book promotion sites where you can list your book for free or for a minor fee.
- Open Q&A with me if you have any questions.
And the best part is? It’s FREE.
Sign up now and start getting more readers.
The day has finally arrived.
You’ve been invited or have signed up to attend a book signing as an author! You smile bigger, walk easier, and can’t wait for the event.
But wait…other than bringing your books, what else can you expect?
Here’s some tips and tricks to ensure a great signing:
- Bring Swag. This can include pens, buttons, postcards, bookmarks, any type of book related stuff.
- Postcard Recommendation: GotPrint or VistaPrint. You can put the cover of the book on 1 side, the blurb and a place to sign on the other.
- Bring Candy! It helps you appear more approachable and everyone loves candy!
- Bring a gift/giveaway that you can hold a raffle for at the signing. Get readers to enter their name/email on a piece of paper (this helps build your email list too!) and then the winner will get notified by email. Try and make the gift/prize relate to your book.
- Dress and act professional. Some signings go better than others, but always be professional and don’t complain.
- If the book signing is scheduled for longer than 2 hours, plan ahead and bring protein-rich snacks in a bag. I’ve attended 8 hour signings before and without granola bars, yogurt, water, etc., my equilibrium would have been shot. Prepare and you’ll be good.
- Do yourself a favor and buy one of those mini-suitcases with wheels from Wal-Mart or Target. You can fit about 30-35 books in the main and side pockets, and it’s easy to bring your books to another room in a hotel or a bookstore.