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Whenever I have spoken with other authors about marketing books, not many of us enjoy this process. We enjoy writing but abhor marketing our titles. For me, as a marketer and web content manager, I thought I would like the process of marketing. In reality, it’s a hard slog and if you want the rewards then you have to keep slogging away.
Christopher Hitchens, an American journalist, is quoted as saying this during a conversation with colleagues. Hitchens was known for his sardonic wit. The whole quote (or something similar) is “Everyone has a book inside them, which is exactly where it should, I think, in most cases, remain.”
Our first sighting of Stromness, its rusting roofs and holding tanks hugging the distant shore below, was evocative of a bygone era folded into the pages of history books.
Author Gerdette Rooney tells SelfPubAus about her self-publishing journey and the biggest challenge involved
Sydney-based Irish author Gerdette Rooney recently published her first book, Womadic Wanders: Stories of a compulsive traveller
NaNoWriMo (“National Novel Writing Month”) is a global competition to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. Every November, hundreds of thousands of writers take part
Many of us, while writing, have a particular reader or kind of reader in mind. But your imagined target market may not be who you think they are.
Are you keen to get your book printed but confused when it comes to all the different options? How do you get from a Word document onto the shelves of Dymocks?
One of the most important things to figure out when trying to market your book is the reader’s path to purchase. This is the journey they go on when finding and buying your book.
A big question for many authors is whether to enrol in Kindle Select or not. So why might you want to choose it?