Best Reading for an Author: READ Your People
What if finding your audience may be the single most important part of getting people to read your book?
What if finding your audience may be the single most important part of getting people to read your book?
When fellow authors have asked me for advice on how to market books, I ask one question: Have you done any events? The typical response is, yes, book signings either at Barnes & Noble or some local mom and pop shop. Nope, that won’t cut…
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…
If you request a review from a busy book blogger, you are likely to be put in a months-long que. Popular bloggers can’t keep up with the requests they get, and some of the biggest bloggers get paid by large publishers to review books. What chance…
Long before my first book was published, I read-up on the best practices for autographing books. My wife thought I was crazy for spending so much time on this topic considering I didn’t have a book that needed signing, but the information learned…
Although I am grateful that SFA Press, an independent university press, has published my debut novel, “The Heart to Kill”, and continues to distribute it, I quickly discovered that if I want to sell the book, I’m the one who has to get…
I’d like to challenge you to ask this question of your friends and followers on social media channels. Why? I’d like to learn as much as I can about people’s reading behavior, as our team renews our focus on attracting readers to…