Tag: Promote

Book Promotion

(Self-Published) Authors Promoting Authors

Here is another opportunity to use your blog to promote your book. 

Have you heard of Authors Promoting Authors? This is a free promotional service for authors either self-published or published by small presses or independent publishers. Authors Promoting Authors will post your cover and “blurb” about your book on their blog. You take the post that appeared before your book and blurb and post it on your blog (within the week).

If you have a blog and you are interested in this free opportunity to promote your book to other bloggers and their readers, email a jpg image of your cover and blurb to authorspromotingauthors@gmail.com

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

Book Promotion

Using a Blog to Promote your Self Published Book

Do you use a blog to promote your self-published book(s)?

If not, this is something you may want to consider. If you do, there are many blog directories out there to help you promote your blog. Here are a few to start with:

BlogFlux              Directory of Writing/Publishing Blogs
BlogDigger          
BlogHub              Blog Directory & Search engine
Blog Top Sites     Literature Blogs - Blog Top Sites
Blog Top List       Literature     Top Blogs

You can visit each site and add your blog to their list if it is not there already. Some blogs require that you link back to their site or add a button as shown above. If so, they will provide an html code for you to do this.

There are many blog directories out there. Listing your blog on them is easy, and can improve your blog stats and, ultimately, your book sales, so give it a try!

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

Book Reviews

Book Review Leads for the Self Published Author

Getting your book reviewed is an important part of book promotion for the self-published author.

If you are seeking book reviews: BookPleasures.com is a website you may want to investigate. They’ve been known to write book reviews and even interview authors for additional exposure. There is more information on their site at www.bookpleasures.com

Another opportunity exists at www.reviewyourbook.com where you can submit your book for a possible free review and listing on their website. There’s no fee (that I could see) and every little bit helps.

If you’ve written a travel log, or a book that fits the description of “travel log” (a memoir involving a foreign locale, for example), you may also want to look into: sketchandtravel.com

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

Book Promotion

Using Amazon Search Suggestions to Promote your Self Published Book

If you are a self-published author, hopefully you have signed up for an Amazon Connect account.  If not, you can do it now by going here: www.amazon.com/connect.

I am going to share 2 suggestions with you about how to use Amazon to your advantage. You have to be signed into your Amazon account to be able to complete these tips, so be sure you set up an account if you have not done so already.

1 – Help customers find your books using Search Suggestions

On your book listing page, scroll down to the section titled “Tags Customers Associate with This Product” and click the link near the bottom of that section that says “What do you suggest?” Then follow the online prompts to add a search term for your book to Amazon’s search engine. You can add a maximum of 10 terms, and I strongly encourage you to come up with all 10.

2 – Directly above that link you will see all the “tags” that other people have given for your book. (If you don’t see any, now is the time to add some yourself).  You will want to click on all of the popular tags. The more “tags” your book has, the more likely it is to appear in forum discussions about that topic, which is akin to directly promoting your book to its very specific target audience.

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

Book Promotion

Using Amazon’s BXGY to Promote your Self Published Book

Imagine seeing your self-published book listed next to Harry Potter, the Da Vinci Code, or Clive Cussler’s latest horror novel.

Pairing two novels together for a combined discount is what Amazon.com calls their BXGY plan (which stands for “Buy Title X, Get Title Y”). The idea behind the promotion is simple: Find a book that is very highly ranked on Amazon.com (Title X) and match the theme or potential audience of that book with yours.

Then, contact Amazon and participate in their BXGY marketing program. For an entire month, your title (Title Y) will be paired with an Amazon best selling title (Title X) of your choice.

To contact Amazon and arrange your Co-Op advertising campaign (which runs for 1 month and costs between $750-$1000 billed directly by Amazon) click on this link to Amazon.com’s CO-OP webpage. http://www.amazon.com/coop

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