HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR BOOK?
GREETINGS!
Are you a writer? Have you
just published your first book and have no idea what to do next? Worry not
bestie, I’ve got you covered.
In this blog I would be
talking about “what to do after you have published your first book”.
INTRODUCTION
So you just published your
first book? This calls for celebration, but wait. Your work just started.
Th real work of your brain,
hands, hearts and body is for what comes after you publish your book.
After publishing the next
step is about advertising it, so lemme just re phrase the title of today's blog.
Welcome, let’s start to
understand the facts on “how to advertise your first book”?
Before we get started, I wanna
tell you that may you are a new bee or an old one, every time you write a book,
you need to promote it and these tips might help to do so as well.
Here it goes.
STEP 1: AUTHOR WEBSITE
What is an
author website? An author website is an exclusive website for authors where you
promote and advertise for your book or any sort of big events you plan to do.
STEP 2: SOCIAL MEDIA
Bestie, don’t
even get me started on this. Today’s world is nothing without a social media.
Promote it
on twitter, Facebook, Instagram and even WhatsApp. Gather attention of your
fans.
Trick them
into buying your book (not directly though, and I do not support fraud so I inevitably
do not support in tricking your fans, be genuine and true, that is what sells.)
STEP 3: LINKEDIN AUTHOR PAGE
We both know
how fast LinkedIn is growing. It is a trend.
Make your LinkedIn
author page and keep posting about your big events like I mentioned above and
just like I said before GATHER ATTENTION.
STEP 4: PROMOTE ON YOUTUBE
Yep, neither
am I a big fan of camera but you gotta do it. See how people promote their
books on YouTube. Get some ideas. Follow through your work. It might take time
to you know beat the YouTube algorithm but it’s definitely worth it.
Here are
some YouTube channels that would guide you on how to promote your book on YouTube.
Do not worry
guys, it’s tried and tested. Also don’t forget to say hi to the you tubers and don’t
forget to tell them that “you came to their channel after reading the blog of
writingspeare.”
STEP 5: SELL ON AMAZON
We both
know, how big amazon is as a company. And hear hear, Jeff Bezos started amazon
as an online book store in the beginning. I’ll share some analytics with you
guys on how much percentage does books hold on amazon.
Source: Google
Source: Google
You can see
in the pie chart above that, books have over 33,214,143. Books come under the top
ten product categories in amazon. So you get an idea how much it means to have
a book on amazon.
Also, if you
are publishing via amazon KDP (like I did) you get an advantage of publishing
an e-book as well.
Now why an
e-book is important?
Well because
not everybody reads paperback and over 1 million people have kindle unlimited. Which
means they get to read your book for free apparently, which also mean, that you
get to generate the KENP on amazon KDP which, is a analytical stimulator which generates
royalties.
The royalties
generate for when someone reads 1 or 2 or the any number of pages.
For example
they read 10 pages from your 300 pages book, you generate for about $1-$5. Which
again is not much. But on e-book of amazon KDP you can promote your book for
free for 5 days.
When I did
my book through that my sales boosted up insane. I had over 1000 pages read in
total where the total number of pages of my book was 118.
You see what
I am saying here?
STEP 6: NETWORKING
Now the next
step is to do networking. How do you do that?
You got to do
one thing, attend book publishing events.
This is a
great way to connect and expand your network in your very niche. Seriously do
it no joke. Search for these events and mark them on your calendar. With covid
on our heads, everything is online. So it would be easy to attend these as well.
Interact in
these seminars as much as possible. I mean go beyond your comfort zone.
Yes, I am
calling you out on this.
STEP 7: REGISTER ON GOODREADS
The good old
good reads. Seriously don’t debate this, don’t question this because people
love good reads. Go register yourself on that NOW!
STEP 8: AUTHOR PODCASTS
Author podcasts,
a great way of networking and expanding your career.
Search for
authentic content on google for how to start your own podcast(s) and you’re
good to go bestie.
STEP 9: SEND YOUR BOOK TO PRODUCER OR
EDITOR VIA FED EX OR UPS
This is the
last step of having your first book’s edition complete. Or maybe even the
millionth book as well. The title is itself self explanatory.
Just send
your book to a producer or editor and it might take time, but keep bugging them
off so they know that a author name (y/n) exists and their book name (b/n) is
there.
CONCLUSION:
You need to remember that this is your first book and it need
not be perfect. It is completely okay if the first book sucks because it would.
You are new to this field, you would learn eventually by experience and that’s
the beauty of being a writer.
“A story written in a book is already
well written” – My father said this to me when I wrote my first book. And trust
me the book sucked. The book was not as good as it looked. I mean the content
and book cover and all the necessities were perfect but I did not have sales
because nobody knew me. And that is completely fine. Why would someone buy your
book if nobody knows you? They will not.
The first thing to remember is that you
should not stop writing even when the first book sucks, and even if there are
no sales at all.
Also remember
that you do not stop promoting it until your next book is in the market.
Keep the
hype up bestie.
Thank you for reading it this far. I hope this helped you in any
way possible.
Comment down below for any queries or
skip to the “CONTACT
ME” page to know where to contact me.
Read: How to write your first book?
Also read:
What to do after you have written your first book?
aryaruth©
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