Book Promotion | Self-Publishing Review

How to get your book reviewed – by avoiding book reviewers.

To have a chance at selling your book on amazon or online, you need reviews. Lots of them. And if you’re like me, you hate pushing all your friends and family to review your work (is it really fair to ask them?) and leave comments. So most authors do this:

1) Search online for book reviews, indie book reviewers, self-published book reviews, how to get book reviews, etc.

2) Email or contact those reviewers asking them to take a look at their books and comment.

Here’s why that doesn’t work. First of all – those few sites that offer […]

Derek Murphy2013-05-27T15:49:08+02:00April 3rd, 2011|Categories: Features, Lead Story, Resources|Tags: Book Marketing, Book Promotion, Book Reviews|

Blogads for book sales? Where and how to advertise your self-published book.

For the past few months I’ve been trying just about everything to get people to read and comment on my indie non-fiction. I’m giving it away for free on my website. I sent out massive email campaigns to related bloggers, basically begging them to take a look at get the free copy. Response has been good – but limited. As of right now I’ve got only a handful of amazon comments and the book is ranked well over the 1,000,000 mark on amazon. But I’m still optimistic, even excited, because I’m learning a lot about what works and what doesn’t, […]

Derek Murphy2017-03-24T09:22:57+02:00April 1st, 2011|Categories: Resources|Tags: Book Marketing, Book Promotion|

Is there a point of critical mass in marketing a book when it begins to sell itself?

At the beginning of September I made a pledge to myself to cut back on marketing, step up my writing, and see what effect this had on my sales. So how did I do?

Well, I wasn’t completely successful in terms of writing. A trip, a cold, several sets of papers to grade became useful excuses not to write, but I did write 2,000 more words, and have 5 chapters of “Uneasy Spirits,” my sequel to Maids of Misfortune, completed. More importantly, I am much more engaged in the process of writing. For those of you who have read […]

Mary Lou Locke2019-02-03T09:04:12+02:00October 26th, 2010|Categories: Features|Tags: Book Marketing, Book Promotion|

Back to Basics on Book Promotion – A Review of Book Candy Studios

BACK TO BASICS – BOOK PROMOTION

How many of you have been tempted to or already paid for “Blog Tours”? Did it increase your book sales? Expensive book trailer? Fun but more book sales? When it comes to book sales, the old adage is still true: the best form of advertising is “word of mouth”. The only question is, how do you generate word of mouth without spending a lot of money? Approximately 5,000 new books are released every month and the average author sells only 250 (mostly to family and friends).

I have probably made the same mistakes many […]

Marlayne Giron2011-10-08T17:10:44+02:00September 3rd, 2010|Categories: Resources|Tags: Book Promotion|