I’m Published, Now What?
- Posted by Essays Blog in Essays Blog |
- September 28th, 2008 |
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So you’re published! Congratulations! Now if you’re like most authors you may be asking yourself, now what? Thither are so many distance to market yourself, so many in fact it’s sometimes bad to know which one you should chose. Now without getting into all your choices, let’s look at any basic things you can do to surround yourself with enough education and experts so you never have to admiration: I’m published, now what?
1) Find any good books to bury yourself in.
2) Thither are a lot of marketing choices and if you’re not careful which one to chose here’s a advise: if it seems to good to be accurate it probably is. Act away from hype because hype rarely pays off. Ask for references, talk to other authors.
3) You can find a lot of information online if you’re choice to do any research. Whether you’re looking for promotional ideas or people to help you promote your book you should definitely Google them first and accompany what you can find.
4) Find individual you belief to talk you finished the process. Whether you hire individual or met individual in your writing group, find individual you can bounce ideas off of who knows the industry and understands current book marketing trends.
5) Don’t live in a clean. Get out and meet other published authors. Go to writers conferences, check out your local PMA listings (Publisher’s Marketing Association) and consider joining them on a national level. Also Motion (Bantam Press Association of North America) is another fantastic organization to join. Both of these places offer a monthly newsletter with tips, articles, and advice columns.
6) Do any online networking via publishing and book marketing forums, here are a few for you to get started with:
Pub-forum &ndash .pub-forum.net
Publish-L &ndash .publish-l.com
Smallpub-civil finance.groups.bumpkin.com/group/smallpub-civil
Ind-E-Pubs &ndash covers ebooks .ind-e-pubs.com
POD publishers finance.groups.bumpkin.com/group/pod_publishers
7) Subscribe any great publishing newsletters, there’s a lot of information out thither and a lot of it is packed in any of the best newsletters you’ll ever read:
Dan Poynter’s Parapublishing Tips: .parapublishing.com
Readers and Writers .writersreaders.com/
John Kremer: .bookmarket.com
Brian Jud: .bookmarketing.com
Book Marketing Expert: .amarketingexpert.com
Get your book reviewed: maybe this sounds like a no-brainer but you’d be amazed how many authors forget this block but it’s important and here’s why: people like what other people like. What individual else says about your book is a thousand-fold more effective than anything you could have. Do reviews sell books? Advantageously, yes I believe they do and here’s why: if your book is abreast Amazon or another online portal and no one’s talking about it a potential new reader might not be motivated to buy. Readers rarely buy “naked” books.
9) Outline a few goals and hit the promotional “road”: keep it simple and keep it realistic. Long, complicated, and involved marketing plans are not only bad to follow, they’re probably gonna cost you a bundle.