Your website is your home base. You always want to bring the reader to your home. This is the place you keep them informed on what’s happening with you and your books. It is the second most important part of your promotion plan. If you can fit it into your budget, get your own site, with your name as the domain name. This makes it so easy for readers to type in your name.com to
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The first issue of Building Your Readership introduced you to building your infrastructure. The following issues will be taking each component of the infrastructure and helping you build it. EMAIL LIST For me this is your number one tool when it comes to your book promotion. I don’t recommend you promote without one. Part of your promotion strategy is to meet new readers. Why do you need an email list? You can get in front
Welcome to the first issue of Building Your Readership Newsletter. This newsletter will come out every Wednesday, and I will be sharing tips on how to build your readership. When I work with clients, I do a mini survey to see if they have the foundation for their book promotion infrastructure. Rarely do I meet an author who is ready to promote their books. I believe if you have your book promotion infrastructure in place
100 Author Project – Day 4 I signed up for the 100 Author Project. It’s a project to journal about your writing life for a whole year. Once the year is up, we submit our journal to the project. I decided to blog and share on social media my daily posts, then put them in the journal. I wanted a way to keep my thoughts and hopefully this will work for me. November I was
The writing bug hit me when I was nine. I kept a diary with all my nine-year-old secrets. I wrote in my journals until I was twenty-five. I wrote my first manuscript at sixteen. I dreamed of being a published writer for many years. At 48, my publishing dream came true. Was it worth the long wait? Every minute of it because I was learning the craft as I waited. I was learning from some
How can you support your friend when their love ones dies? 1. Send your condolences Cards, emails, social media posts. They do help. During my grief, I read over cards, emails and social media posts to get me through those tough days. 2. Make them dinner or send gift cards for food. Most people in grief don’t have the energy to cook. During my grief, the gift cards helped me not have to focus on
In the coming months I will be chatting with you about ChatGPT. I believe it’s a good tool for helping you with your writing and marketing. I will be talking more about how I use it for my writing and marketing. I hope it will be something you can use too. Each post will include prompts you can use inside ChatGTP. Today I will be focusing on using it for brainstorming. Brainstorming is one of
Look what came in the mail yesterday? As a person who teaches book promotion I believe in staying in the know about book promotion which means taking classes and reading the latest books on book promotion. Debra Owsley is someone who loves authors and always helping to support them. I’m grateful to call her fiend. I’m looking forward to learning new strategies from this book. Get your copy today. https://amzn.to/3Nntrd7
I am willing to put in the work and time necessary to successfully promote my book.
I am confident in my ability to connect with potential readers and build a fanbase.
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