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Getting people to care about the products of your imagination is a profound and infinitely complex task that will absorb as much attention as you give it.
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Self-Publishing Ideas
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"The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself." ~Seth Godin
I picked myself! http://amzn.to/properorder 
Otis Chandler says: “The most valuable commodity for the sustained promotion of a book is word-of-mouth buzz . . . 
Try out this fun tool! Where will your first sentence take you? 
Self-publishing is great, but we can’t all be writers just because we have a story idea. It’s work, and a lot of it, to bring a book to market – be patient and don’t skip any of the steps. 
Self-publishing is upending the book industry. One woman's unlikely road to a hit novel, The Mill River Recluse. 
In Monday's jam-packed announcement post, we announced an exciting opportunity for all of our amazingly talented indie author friends: a Self-Publishing... "So if selling is not inherently evil, then you're home free right? Forget your qualms, grit your teeth, and start tweeting. Well, not quite. Instead if you're feeling guilty about self-promotion, try stepping back and ask yourself these three questions. 1. Are you offering a quality product?" 
"a treasure trove of advice and encouragement from the great writers who best embody, in their own work, NaNoWriMo's goals of writing much and writing fast." 
Amazon.com, the online retailer, has long competed with bookstores; now it is starting to make deals with authors, bypassing the traditional publisher. 
A great directory where Indie/Self Published Authors can find book reputable book bloggers to read and review their books free of charge. 
Has an agent ever told you that your writing voice was like Michener's? Has a friend said that your book reminded him of "The Catcher and the Rye"? You know what you like about your book, but what is it about your book that caused your last reader to keep turning the pages?
When I tweeted a request to a few recent readers of "The Proper Order of Things", I was surprised that most responded within a few hours. Here is my latest self-publishing idea:
1) Create a new discussion on your Amazon Author Page Forum (You have one, right?) asking readers to fill in the blank to a statement such as this:
If you like ______________ , you'll love "The Proper Order of Things".
2) In your forum post, advise readers to fill in the blank by adding an author name, a book title, a genre, or any other word or phrase that seems appropriate.
3) Share a link to your Amazon Author Discussion via twitter/FB etc., and ask your readers to take a second to fill in the blank for your future readers.
4) Each time you get a note from a satisfied reader, share a link to your discussion page and invite them to fill-in-the-blank.
Please take a moment to check out the discussion on my Amazon Author page. You'll see that I found myself some blurbs! http://bit.ly/ProperOrderAkin |
Leave your attitude at home, bring your talents to the table, and let’s all get down to business. There are books to write. There are pages to edit. There are covers to design. There are new readers to find. And, at the root of it all, there is money to be made. 
I think I'll try the last method (101 ideas) to try to think of new ways to market my novel. 
Kentucky novelist John Locke is the first self-published author to sell more than a million digital books on Amazon.com.
"Writing your novel, and publishing your novel, become bookends to the volumes of non-manuscript-writing work in between them." 
Stephen Page: The media and the market for books are in flux in the age of ebooks and Amazon, but publishers still have a vital role... 
Clearly, then, I am still at the stage of trusting self-published material only when it comes from a known source. 
The following is a guest post by Joseph M. Rinaldo. 
With the advent of self publishing we have seen a literary gold rush of sorts. All chasing Kindle fame and fortune. 
Have you heard of Audioboo? My online English learners use it to practise speaking English. You can use it to share audio excerpts of your writing." 
52 great blogs for self-publishers including book design, editing, marketing, and all phases of the publishing process. 
YouTube is probably a poor platform for trying to sell books for indie/mid-list authors. 
"Write more books before worrying about putting a lot of time into promotion. There’s nothing wrong with putting a first book up, but remember, most traditionally published authors didn’t sell until manuscript 2, 3 or 4. So don’t worry about sales on that first book. Don’t waste time promoting. Wait until you have three books published, then start pushing the promotion. Have patience." |
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