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. 

I have the honor of being the June guest blogger for a Twitter friend of mine, who asked me to write out some tips on indie publishing and writing. You can view the post here. Thanks!

Hello all, Yes, it’s been a while. BUT good news: I haven’t been blogging much but I have been #Writing my Elemental Clan Series. So that’s a good thing, but I hope to blog more, even if it’s brief. That being said, thought I would mention, especially to you Indie authors – that IndieCon 2013 is going on this week over on their web site. Here is the link. I enjoyed this online conference last year, and I think they have some valuable info worth sharing. Thanks, and stay tuned for an author promo tomorrow, 6/11, Keri Neal and her release FLIGHTLESS!

Thanks to everyone for your support, text messages, and encouragement this week. Y’all rock :) To say it has been quite a week is, well, an understatement. One of my writer friends told me that doing this publish-it-yourself thing would be a means to learn as you go along. She didn’t realize it at the time, but she was actually reading my future. WOW. Lots of things to prepare, have reviewed by the sites where the book will be sold, have re-reviewed by the book sites because their site was down after entering a full page of information (guilty culprit: you know who you are!) and more. SO… I am doing final prep of the links & my website today. Tomorrow (Friday 2/1) is the official “release day.” And for those of you asking, yes, I do have a bottle of champagne chilling in the fridge. It’s actually been there since Christmas, when my inlaws brought it over and we decided not to partake of the bubbly until later. (Thank you, my dear inlaws – the bubbly will not go to waste!) What is this darn book about, you ask? Well, to read a short blurb, click here. I will say that the paranormal fiction is not for everyone’s taste, and that is okay. (For my more ultra-conservative friends, note that this genre may not be to your liking.) I have enabled sampling on Amazon, etc. so you can try before you buy. And it’s okay. I have many author friends who are talented writers, but I simply cannot get through certain types of fiction writing no matter how wonderful they are as people. So, for those of you who like the paranormal twists and saving human souls, the Elemental Clan Series will be an ideal fit. For those of you who prefer more “real life” fiction, don’t worry – I have several books I will be releasing later this year and into next, so you can have something more suitable to your tastes. See? Something for everyone. That’s the beauty in not going with a standard NYC publisher, when things all have to fit into a box. I write about Elementals, Fallen Angels, ghost stories and people seeing the dead, women’s fiction and women’s relationships with family and romance, and many other types of things in between. Stop by my blog on Friday 2/1, leave a comment, and get a chance to win a FREE copy of Water’s Blood.