How to Promote Your Independently Published Book or Ebook
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Re: How to Promote Your Independently Published Book or Eboo
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I completely agree! I cannot express how frustrating it is to me that a perfectly good, well-written book, sometimes has a crappy cover. I think that in the world of self-publishing, a lot of people don't take the cover into account as much as they should.psyche wrote:I think that in addition to the book, the cover and blurb need to be good, clear and look professional. They should make it absolutely clear what "type" of book it is. I see many self-pub books with covers and blurbs that are vague and give very little info about the book.
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I also cannot agree more that a good cover can make a book more enticing. I've stuck with some awful reads for longer than I normally would have just because I so wanted to believe the words on the pages would live up to the cover art.
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Congratulations, Scott!!!Scott wrote:I have written about 30x as much on this topic of book promotion and released it as an ebook for Kindle just today. Check it out: 10 Step Plan to Promote Your Book: Online Book Marketing on Any Budget
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Congratulations and good luck!Scott wrote:I have written about 30x as much on this topic of book promotion and released it as an ebook for Kindle just today. Check it out: 10 Step Plan to Promote Your Book: Online Book Marketing on Any Budget
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Editing, re-writing, creating, design and story-editing are all easy tasks for me--the MOST difficult task is breaking "a really good book" through the layers of very poor E-books flooding the E-book market and get the reader to look at them, especially if one writes a saga--a really LONG book (1,000 pages+). Websites that allow authors to post and advertise their books are inundated with posts of book covers and if you notice, rarely does anyone COMMENT on the books. The sites are flooded with AUTHORS and not readers!
The key is separating talented authors from self-aggrandizing egotists. The true storyteller is interested in as many people as possible READING their stories and sharing the joy of the twists and turns and the little verbal pictures hidden throughout the adventure. I have had the pleasure of meeting a number of highly successful authors and not one of them has written a single word FOR money; money comes after good writing.
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Every word of the book reflects your experience in this field and can be of great help to anyone needing it.
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That's a great point, @donaldzlotik ! And thank you for other comments too!donaldzlotnik wrote:. I have had the pleasure of meeting a number of highly successful authors and not one of them has written a single word FOR money; money comes after good writing.
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Thank you, Divya!Divya agarwal wrote:Very informative and acute tips. In fact, i will also like to mention the same for your book '10 Step Plan To Promote Your Book' and advise Indie authors and self pubishers to read and follow it.
Every word of the book reflects your experience in this field and can be of great help to anyone needing it.
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