Tag: Promote

Book Promotion

101 Surefire Ways to Market Your (Self-Published) Book

We recently posted a book review for The Daughter-in-Law Rules by Sally Shields.

On her website, this author lists 101 Surefire Ways to Market Your Book, Product or Service! which gives some really great ideas for promoting a self published book.  Check it out!

Don’t forget, every Saturday we post a weekly book review of a self-published book (submitted by the author). To submit your review, please send it to selfpublishingadvice@gmail.com with a .jpg image of your cover. Self Publishing Advice will post your review and cover image on our blog.

Good luck and have fun!
Kelly Schuknecht
selfpublishingadvice.wordpress.com

Book Promotion

Submitting the Ebook Edition of your Self-Published Book

Last week I talked about using an ebook edition of your self-published book to promote your hard copy book.

I mentioned Amazon’s Kindle Store as one place where you can submit your ebook edition. If you haven’t checked that out yet, here is where you can go to set up your account and submit your ebook file: dtp.amazon.com

Have you been looking into other places where you can submit your ebook edition? There are a variety of ebook retailers on the internet. You can contact them each individually and submit your ebook file. Each ebook retailer will offer different royalty splits.

You can do a search on Google to find more ebook sites. Here’s another one to get you started: www.fictionwise.com

Good luck and have fun!
Kelly Schuknecht
selfpublishingadvice.wordpress.com

Book Promotion

Using Ezines to Promote your Self Published Book

Ezines are a great place to get reviews of your book published. They need content and, as a self-published author, you need reviews – it’s a perfect match!

Here is an ezine that actively solicits and reviews POD books (and you can find many others but conducting a search on Google for “ezine.”
www.mysticlivingtoday.com

Take a look at their site and if you feel your book is a good match for the tone of the ezine, send them a review copy of your book along with a copy of your sales sheet and a cover letter asking for a review.

Send it to:
Planet Starz, Inc.
314 Mill Pond Rd
Bluffton, SC 29910

Don’t forget, Self Publishing Advice will post your review and cover image on our blog. Once you receive a review for your book, you can submit it to selfpublishingadvice@gmail.com with a .jpg image of your cover.

Good luck and have fun!
Kelly Schuknecht
selfpublishingadvice.wordpress.com

Book Promotion

Promoting Your Self-Published Book to Libraries

In the course of promoting and marketing your self-published book, have you pursued libraries yet?

Libraries are a great place to conduct readings and a great way to get involved with your community. The contacts you make at your local library may be able to help you bridge that larger gap to national exposure.

Here is a website that lists all the public libraries by state. I hope you find it helpful.

http://www.publiclibraries.com/

Good luck and have fun!
Kelly Schuknecht
selfpublishingadvice.wordpress.com

Book Promotion

Using Podcasts to Promote Your Self Published Book

Perhaps you’ve heard about podcasts? These are recorded sessions of either music or talking. Podcasts that focus on books are perfect because they are already written (so you aren’t making something up at the same time you record) and they are either entertaining or educational (or both).

Recording a podcast of your self-published book is a great way to promote it. Once your podcast is recorded, you can upload it to popular sites like itunes.com and reach a whole new audience.

Podiobooks.com is a relatively easy way to start creating a podcast for your book. You will find helpful instructions for what you need in the way of hardware and software to make your first recording. They also allow you to upload your files to their site for free, but once you have your podcast file (usually an mp3 file) don’t forget to upload it to other popular sites, too.  You can conduct a search on Google to find sites where you can upload your podcast, and you can submit your podcast feed URL to the iTunes Store here.

Other links that will help you down the road of podcasting include:
audacity.sourceforge.net
mypodcast.com
switchpod.com
blogtalkradio.com

Good luck and have fun!
Kelly Schuknecht
selfpublishingadvice.wordpress.com