Attention: new authors and soon to be authors. Book Marketing isn’t easy, nor glamorous or inexpensive. It’s work. Hard, extremely detailed work. But when done right, it is also highly rewarding. Since my first novel – America, the…
As a physical therapist, preparing to publish Your Body Book Guide to Better Body Motion with Less Pain, I purchased John Kremer’s 1001 Ways to Market Your Books. I read it from cover-to-cover, all 700 + pages. I turned down corners of pages…
Most authors love writing books more than selling books. We want readers to buy our books, but with acquiring readers comes the hard work of business, marketing, and self-promotion. We dream of the day we will sit behind our book table as readers…
When I published my first book, Forgetting English, back in 2009, social media wasn’t quite the phenomenon it was today. I had just joined Facebook, I wasn’t on Twitter, and Instagram didn’t even exist. Back then, I relied on email marketing…
I’m excited about what we’ve done so far in building Hometown Reads because I believe to be successful in marketing a book, authors need to start where they are — mobilizing the networks of relationships they already have. Oftentimes…
