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    Book Marketing for Authors
    Book Marketing for Authors
    Book Marketing for Authors
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    Book Marketing for Authors

    By Craig A. Price Jr.

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    Do you want to know how to Market a Book?

    Book Marketing for authors is an easy to use guide, shooting straight to the meat of what you need to know to market your book. Marketing your book can be tough, and expensive. Make sure you're pursuing the right way to market, and remember that your content is what's most important. In this guide, I go over 19 very important things you can do to market your book. I keep this short and to the point with little fluff. If you want to know the most important things to do to your book so you can market it, this is the guide for you. I also have recommendations of other great books you can look at for more great advice. This is a good guide for book marketing for beginners. Follow these 19 tips of my book marketing plan for success. This is a straight forward guide for book marketing made easy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClaymore Publishing
    Release dateApr 21, 2016
    ISBN9781533704962
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      Book Marketing for Authors - Craig A. Price Jr.

      Book Marketing for Authors:

      19 Tips & Tricks to Market your Book to Readers

      By Craig A. Price Jr.

      Copyright © 2016 by Craig A. Price Jr.

      First edition

      All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the copyright owner, except for fair use as attributed quotations in reviews of the book.

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      Content:

      What does the content of my book have to do with marketing?

      Before you do anything to market your book, you need to make sure you have a good product to market. I want you to think about it. When a Kirby vacuum salesman comes to your door and promises they can get a stain out of your rug, they’re going to make sure they’re able to do it. They’re selling a quality product and not an average product.

      How can you make sure your book stands out from the rest? Have you looked at a lot of Self-published books? Look at some of the older ones, or the ones done by retired people. They all have something in common. Look at their one star reviews, and you’ll often find what is most complained about. Take a close look at some of those comments, how many actually talk about the story itself? Most of the time, readers complain about errors, the cover, and how it’s formatted. I’ve seen a lot of self-published covers where the cover image doesn’t stretch all the way on the front of the book. You don’t want white space around your image. You also want the spine and the back to match the front. You want it to look like it’s supposed to be there, and sometimes that can be as simple as matching colors.

      So what all do you need?

      Professional Editing, Professional Cover, Professional Formatting, Good Blurb (Read Gotta Read it by Libbie Hawker.), Professional Author Photo.

      I’m going to break each of these down for you. All of these things together will be the content of your book. The first thing you need to make sure you have is good content. Nowadays, readers can be vicious, and there are trolls everywhere. Don’t believe me? Look at some of the greatest books out there, go to their Amazon page, and look at the one star reviews. You need to do everything you can to bring a professional product to your reader. This includes editing, cover, formatting, blurb, and author photo.

      Let’s get started.

      Editing: This one should really go without saying. Editing is the single most important thing you can do before you publish your book. The problem? Editing is expensive. Many of us write because we love to, not because we have the extra money to blow. The best thing you can do is learn as much as you can and self-edit as best as you can before finding yourself an editor.

      There are several great books out there that can help you, Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King, Revising Fiction: A Handbook for Writers by David Madden, The Elements of Style by William Strunk, and Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss. There are also several books by Mignon Fogarty that are very helpful. Mingon Fogarty also has a podcast called Grammar Girl that is very helpful for learning grammar.

      You should also learn the difference of show verses tell, which is one of the hardest things for authors to comprehend. I had trouble with it for the longest time. There are a few excellent books out there by Angela Ackerman and Becci Pugsli that are very helpful for better understanding show verses tell: Emotion Amplifiers, The Emotion Thesaurus, THe Positive Trait Thesaurus, The Negative Trait Thesaurus, The Rural Setting Thesaurus, and The Urban Setting Thesaurus.

      You can learn a lot about your writing from hiring an editor and through a critique group. You’ve heard many things like, read your work aloud, find a critique group, and hire an editor. They all work. Read your work aloud and you will catch a lot of errors. You can also set up your computer or your device to read your work back to you. The computer voice will really be able to catch errors you didn’t know were there. The problem with reading through it yourself, is you know what’s already supposed to be there.

      How to I self-edit? There are several things I do, including reading those books, having an editor, and having a critique group. You need to realize what you do wrong and learn from it. If you go through a critique group and don’t learn how to improve—you’re doing it wrong. Same goes for an editor. If you have an entire manuscript edited, you should learn what your weaknesses are and do better in the future. One great thing that has helped me is printing out my entire completed manuscript and putting it in a binder. I will keep it with me as I travel. If I’m at work, I’ll have it with me, and I’ll work on it between projects. I don’t use a red pen, there is some kind of psychology against a red pen. Plain and simple. It’s scary. Red pens are scary. I like a light blue, it’s my favorite to use for editing. I buy a color pack of Pilot 0.7 pens. I like how they write, and I’ll use the light blue first. Don’t use black, and don’t use red. You can’t see black and red hurts. Read through your printed manuscript and make marks.

      Tighten your sentences. As Elements of Style puts it: Omit Needless Words. Also make sure you use show vs tell as much as you’re able. A great book to read for help on how to show emotions rather than tell them is The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Guide to Character Expression by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi, as I’ve stated before.

      What can you do to fix grammar, plot holes, and punctuation without the services of an editor? The first thing I would suggest is looking for a community of writers near you. There are many writers guilds or writing communities out there. Look locally. Sometimes you can find them online, or sometimes you will see fliers at a local library or coffee shop. Look around, ask some people. The next thing you want to do is see if they have critique groups. A critique group can be a great thing to improve your writing. Not all writers are editors. But, all writers have strengths. What is your strength? Mine is captivating endings on chapters

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