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Now that we face a new year, how are we going to make the most of it as authors? Even before we have something published, we need to promote ourselves and our work. Many people have limited ideas of how or where. Let's examine a few suggestions.
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Examples of Types of Promotion
Promotion should begin before publication. We need a fan base, need our names to be familiar, before we promote books, published articles or stories or poetry.
Social media: is almost a must to promote authors in today's world. Each person needs to be active on Facebook,Tweeter, LinkedIn, Google+, and/or Pinerest. Other sites are available, too. No, we don't have to be active on all the sites, but we need to choose at least two major ones for major input and maybe two more where we spend less time but have accounts.
Blogging can be a good means to promote ourselves, if we're willing to have a blog up and going before we publish. We don't want our blogs to be constant advertising of our books, either. My personal blog is a combination of writing tips, experiences, events, etc. I place much of the promotion for my books in the sidebar rather than in the posts.
Writing sites give us opportunities to network and promote our work. Those of us on W.Com know that this site is helpful in many ways, including the ability to promote ourselves and our writing.
Contests and readers polls also provide promotional ideas we can use. Not all competitions are for unpublished material; some are for published works only. Writer's Digest has contests for published books; many book festivals and writing conferences have contest for currently published books. Predators & Editors has a readers poll for authors, artists, published books, articles, and stories as well as writing sites (wonder if W.Com has been nominated yet?). In fact I have a book in the Children's book division, (I Like Pink; I'm nominated for the best author; and my small publishing company, 4RV Publishing, is nominated for print/electronic book publisher and bookstore. Carla Ralston, another W.Com member, is nominated in the editor category. Harry Gilleland's book A Wandering Warrior is in the cover art and other novel categories. I'd be delighted if you'd stop by and vote. I'll give some links at the end of this article.
Participating in book or writing events always helps promote an author. Classes in schools, libraries, and conferences need volunteers and speakers.
Promotion is a must for authors.
Links for a few categories on the Preditors & Editors Readers Poll:
Children's Books -- http://critters.org/predpoll/novelchildrens.shtml
Author Page -- http://critters.org/predpoll/author.shtml
Print/electronic book publisher -- http://critters.org/predpoll/ebookpublisher.shtml
Bookstore -- http://critters.org/predpoll/bookstore.shtml
Print/ebook cover art -- http://critters.org/predpoll/bookart.shtml
Print/ebook editor -- http://critters.org/predpoll/bookeditor.shtml |
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