Promotion

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  • Web Link E-book Worm

    A blog of Amazon kindle news, ebook reviews, and enhancements.

  • Web Link How To Set Up a Facebook Page for Your Book

    I think it's safe to say if you don't already have a personal Facebook account, you haven't yet joined in on the party that is the 21st Century. In the event you don't have an account, setting one up is just as easy as setting up a Twitter account.

    Type facebook.com into your browser, and after providing a first and last name, e-mail address, password, gender, and birthdate, you're signed up! After you've logged in (and, if you wish, provided varying degrees of unnecessary personal information), you will be directed to your homepage. If at any time you feel lost and forlorn, you can click on "Home" on your upper right hand corner to get back.

    To set up a Facebook page, move your pointer over to the left hand sidebar, and click on the link to "More," located just below "Games" and "Apps" at the bottom. From here you can click on the "Pages" tab.

    A box on the upper right hand corner of this page will enable you to "Create a page." To create a page for your book, click on the "Entertainment" box and choose "Book" from the drop down menu. To create a page for your website, click on the "Brand or Product" box and choose "Website" in the drop down menu. You can also create a page for a business, company organization or institution, artist or public figure, or cause or community. From here, Facebook will guide you step-by-step through creating a page for your product.  Get rocking!

  • Web Link How To Create a Linked-In Account

    LinkedIn is a social media tool that enables its users to create exclusively professional profiles and to connect them to current and potential business colleagues. It is a social networking tool akin to Facebook, but (theoretically) devoid of personal details.

    To join LinkedIn, navigate on over to linkedin.com and click on "Join Now."  You will need to provide a first and last name, e-mail address, and new password, then click on "Join LinkedIn." You will be guided through a step-by-step process in order to create your profile, by providing employment information, a zip code, company name, job title, etc. The process will then direct you to connecting with colleagues you already know via e-mail address.

    To create a "Company Page" for your book, login to your personal account, then click on "Companies" at the top of the homepage. In the drop down menu provided, click on "Find Companies." To the right, next to FAQ's, will be a link to "Add a Company." After you click here, you will be guided through a step-by-step process to add a company by providing the company (book) name and confirming your e-mail address.

  • Web Link How to Create a YouTube Account or Channel


    Go to www.youtube.com. At the top of the page, click on the link to "Create an Account." To get started, you will need to provide an e-mail address, username, postal code, date of birth, gender, and then accept terms of use. Choose a new password for your account.

    After you confirm your account via your e-mail address, you will be able to browse videos, view movies, and upload your own videos and book trailers. In case you lose track of it, the "Upload" link is always in the upper right hand corner of the YouTube page when logged in.  By setting this up, you "create" a "channel" that is strictly yours.  You can, if you wish, create a channel just for your book--or one for each book, if you have promotional videos that you want people to see for each book.  Videos are powerful marketing tools, although the jury still seems to be out on whether or not they are very helpful in marketing books.  If you write "how-to" or instructional books, however, short videos demonstrating some of the techniques in your book, or promotional videos describing what a prospective reader may learn in your book, can be invaluable. 

  • Web Link The All-MysteryNewsletter Promotion Platforms

    All Mystery e-newsletter is multi-platform promotion for authors of mystery, suspense, thrillers only. No vampires, werewolves or zombies allowed--unless they solve crime in their spare time. More info at our website: http://allmysteryenewsletter.com.  (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED by Booknook.biz)

  • Web Link Make A Killing on KIndle

    According to best-selling author Mike Alvear, "[t]here are only 12 steps to successful Kindle selling and I show you how to do each of them with step-by-step directions, including picture tutorials."  Mike points out that your carefully crafted, painstakingly created book can't be bought if it can't be found.  Mike's gotten every single one of his books on Page 1 of Amazon's search results, and in this book, he shows you how.

    This book is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED by Booknook.biz!  Don't miss this one!

  • Web Link Useful Book Blogs and Review Sites

    Below is a list of networks and otherwise useful sites, which provide book and ebook publishing news, commentary, reader and writer forums, and reviews or features that can be submitted by anyone and everyone. These sites are helpful tools in your navigating of networking, enabling you to more quickly find popular and/or effective blogs for review, and in stocking up on voluntary reader reviews for your book, which often make landing a big-time blogger review more likely.

    Websites are listed by Alexa ranking, which rates blogs according to traffic and therefore popularity.

    • http://www.amazon.com 17: A website on which consumers can buy, sell, and review books and ebooks... as well as pretty much everything else.
    • http://www.goodreads.com 1,009: A network/forum focusing on readers, featuring book recommendations, book clubs, trivia games, and giveaways.
    • http://www.mobileread.com 7,885: A forum for e-reading, featuring e-book and e-reader recommendations and news.
    • http://www.Librarything.com 8,066: A personal book cataloger, allowing readers to catalog books from Amazon, Library of Congress, and 690 other world libraries, and to find new books based on what others have read with similar tastes.
    • http://www.kindleboards.com 15,928: A forum in which members can "feel free to talk about anything and everything related to Kindle!"
    • http://www.absolutewrite.com 20,898: A bulletin featuring newsworthy deadline information for commercial authors and forums for writers.
    • http://forum.writersdigest.com 32,083: News and forums for writers on how to write better and how to get published.
    • http://www.sellingbooks.com/ 72,365: A guide to writing, publishing, and marketing books and ebooks. (Not a review site, per se; but worth reading & subscribing to, really!)
    • http://www.authonomy.com 77,981: A networking community for writers, readers, and publishers developed by HarperCollins.
    • http://www.Redroom.com 121,918: A network connecting published authors, aspiring writers, readers, publishers, agents, associations, students, and researchers.
    • http://kindlenationdaily.com/ 127,724: A site that catalogs free kindle books, gives kindle tips, and provides related news and commentary. It features "books of the week" by genre and price.
    • http://www.nookboards.com/forum 150,145: A forum featuring the Barnes and Noble nook.
    • http://www.selfpublishingreview.com/ 175,292: An online magazine devoted to legitimizing self-publishing: news, book reviews, publisher reviews, interviews, opinion, how-to's, and a social network for writers.
    • http://www.webook.com 178,015 :"Writing community for writers, readers, and literary agents: Submit works, read and rate writings."
    • http://www.writingforums.org 205,616: A network of discussion forums and site announcements for creative writers, featuring contests and author interviews.
    • http://www.writersbeat.com 374,125: A forum for writers only, featuring  discussions on the writing craft, marketing ideas, and enabling posts for critique from fellow writers.
    • http://kindlereader.blogspot.com 1,729,177:  An Amazon.com affiliate blog run by a librarian that features kindle books that cost $4.99 or less. It is designed to be "a time-saving menu of reading choices," as opposed to a review site.
    • http://indiebooksblog.blogspot.com/ 3,758,915: A blog that features (not reviews) independent writers' books. Follow the directions to submit a book: http://indiebooksblog.blogspot.com/p/get-featured.html
    • http://indiebookman.com/ 22,641,246: "A meeting ground for the Indie Publishing Revolution blogging all things of interest to self publishers, indie presses, guerrilla book marketers and other soldiers of the revolution." (check out his blog radio shows)
  • Web Link 28 Book Review Sites for the Self-Published Author

    Below is a list of 28 websites, ezines, and blogs, whose contributors post more in-depth reviews of featured books and ebooks. Again, the sites are ranked by Alexa number: the lower the number, the more popular the site. You can submit your work to all of them, although it goes without saying that a submission will not necessarily result in a review, favorable or otherwise!

    Give 'em a try, and let us know if any of these are particularly fabulous--or particularly bad.  We like to keep our clients and folks who drop by updated!  Thanks!

  • Web Link Jeffrey Marks--Intent to Sell: Publishing the Genre Novel

    So you’ve sold your novel.

     

    Congratulations. Now all you have to do is sit back and wait for the reviews and royalties to come rolling in, right? Not exactly. The process of promoting your own work should begin before the ink is dry on your contracts. I’m not going to talk about including promotional language in the contract with your publisher. It doesn’t matter if you’re publishing your first novel or bringing an entire series out in e-book format.

    So how do you make a splash when over 100,000 new books are published each year? How do you stand out when they are all vying for attention? Jeffrey Marks, the author of Intent to Sell: Marketing the Genre Novel, and the long time moderator of the Yahoo Group, Murder Must Advertise, can help. The book is in its fourth edition (courtesy of Booknook) and is the only book that helps genre authors (mystery, science fiction, romance and Westerns) find the keys they need to make their name stand out. Marks is internationally known as a marketer and has led seminars across the globe. His own works have been nominated for every major mystery award and has won the Anthony.

    First of course, you can purchase his book, Intent to Sell: Marketing the Genre Novel, as an e-book for $5.99 or a paperback at $12.99 using the following links:

    Kindle e-book: Click Here to Buy Me

    Paperback edition: Click Here to Buy Me

    If you’re hoping for more personalized services, Marks offers an e-mail course. The course consists of six lessons, which help you walk through the steps of creating the exact promotional items that a publicist would charge thousands for. He’ll read and critique the marketing materials that you create and suggest the best way to brand yourself as an author. He’ll look at the content on your website as well. The class runs six weeks, and each class only contains 6-10 students. You can share ideas with the other authors in the class or work 1-on-1 with the instructor. The six week course is just $75, well inside the budget of most authors.

    Finally, if you’re hoping for more individual services on social media and marketing your book, Marks offers a series of video courses on how to harness the power of social networking sites to sell more books. There will be a series of 5 20-30 minute videos and 1 30 minute Skype session on how to create an on-line presence that allows you to sell books more easily. This package is only $149.99 and includes a copy of Intent to Sell: Marketing the Genre Novel.

    Some additional resources:

    MurderMustAdvertise– the site has articles by authors on techniques that work

    The MMA Blog– more techniques by authors.

    The Crime Fiction Group on LinkedIn

    About Jeffrey Marks:

    Jeffrey Marks was born in Georgetown, Ohio, the boyhood home of Ulysses S. Grant. Although he moved with his family at an early age, the family frequently told stories about Grant and the people of the small farming community.

    At the age of twelve, he was introduced to the works of Agatha Christie via her short story collection, The Underdog and Other Stories. He finished all her books by the age of sixteen and had begun to collect mystery first editions.

    After stints on the high school and college newspapers, he began to freelance. After numerous author profiles, he chose to chronicle the short but full life of mystery writer Craig Rice.

    That biography (which came out in April 2001 as Who Was That Lady?) encouraged him to write mystery fiction. The Ambush of My Name is the first mystery novel by Marks to be published although he has several mystery short story anthologies on the market. He followed up with Atomic Renaissance: Women Mystery Writers of the 1940s/1950s and Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography.

    His work has won a number of awards including the an Anthony in 2009 for his Anthony Boucher biography, Barnes and Noble Prize, and he has been nominated for an Edgar (MWA), an Agatha (Malice Domestic), a Maxwell award (DWAA), and an Anthony award (Bouchercon). Today, he writes from his home in Cincinnati, which he shares with his dogs. Visit Jeff's website at: www.jeffreymarks.com/

    Jeff and his course (and, naturally, his novels!) are endorsed and recommend by: Booknook.biz

  • Web Link How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months! by John Locke

    John Locke reveals the marketing system he created to sell more than 1,100,000 eBooks in five months, including discussions about social networking, mailing lists, marketing services, and pricing.

  • Web Link Twitter

    Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest information about what you find interesting, via a system of following other users and categorizing information by "hashtags." The network is limited to information streams called "tweets" that are 140 characters in length, or less.

  • Web Link Facebook Pages for Your Book/Website

    Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet. You can use the service to set up a "page" to promote your e-book.

  • Web Link Social Media for Dummies

    In one succinct post, we explain how to set up accounts within and how to use: Twitter, Facebook, Amazon Author Central, YouTube, bitly, TweetDeck, HootSuite and LinkedIn. 

  • Web Link SocialOomph

    SocialOomph is an entirely free dashboard that allows you to navigate twitter. You can: set up scheduled and auto-updates, auto-replies, and auto-follows and -unfollows; track conversations via specific keywords; find new people/businesses to follow based on interests and brands; organize your followers into groups; automatically feed new blog entries to your twitter account; and integrate link shortener services such as bit.ly to keep links you post... short....

  • Web Link Kindle Boards

    Kindle Boards is a network aimed at ebook authors and kindle owners/readers, which includes discussions about the kindle machine, ebooks available on kindle, and ebook promotion.

  • Web Link Kindle Nation Daily

    A blog featuring kindle tips, ebook news and commentary, and alerts about free kindle books. Authors/publishers can purchase a variety of promotions on the site.

  • Web Link How to Manage Twitter and Facebook via SocialOomph

    A how-to article on using SocialOomph to build and easily manage large quantities of Twitter followers and Facebook groups.

  • Web Link Frugal eReader

    A site featuring ebooks available at the Amazon Kindle Store for under $9. Authors and publishers can sign up for paid promotions.

  • Web Link Ereader News Today

    Tips, tricks, and free ebooks for your kindle. Authors and publishers can sign up for paid promotions on this site.

  • Web Link Jenny Blake's Spreadsheet for Self-Published Authors

    Author Jenny Blake offers up the secrets of her publishing success via The Domino Project. There is no one size fits all approach to promoting a book, but there can be a more streamlined way to get organized. 

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