Marketing a self published book?
Discussion
Hi,
I've had a quick flick through here and there look to be a few folk who have self published books on Amazon.
My wife has just done the same with a new romantic novel she has been writing and I was wondering if anyone had any top tips on how to go about promoting such a thing?
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Tom
I've had a quick flick through here and there look to be a few folk who have self published books on Amazon.
My wife has just done the same with a new romantic novel she has been writing and I was wondering if anyone had any top tips on how to go about promoting such a thing?
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Tom
Thanks Andy, that was a good read.
I think I'll look at updating the book description soon, I didn't think you could put HTML tags in there, but I have seen a couple with h2's and bold in there so will try and give it some more punch.
Out of interest, how did you use the Bookbub promotion?
Did you give it away for free or drop it to 99c?
There seems to be a split opinion on if it's best to give it away for free and have it appear later in a load of "People who bought this also bought" links after the promotion, or to charge a little for it so it goes up the paid charts. I understand free downloads no longer count towards the paid charts..
If you charge for it I see the bookbubb fee is also more.
I think I'll look at updating the book description soon, I didn't think you could put HTML tags in there, but I have seen a couple with h2's and bold in there so will try and give it some more punch.
Out of interest, how did you use the Bookbub promotion?
Did you give it away for free or drop it to 99c?
There seems to be a split opinion on if it's best to give it away for free and have it appear later in a load of "People who bought this also bought" links after the promotion, or to charge a little for it so it goes up the paid charts. I understand free downloads no longer count towards the paid charts..
If you charge for it I see the bookbubb fee is also more.
We put my Wife's book on create space. The interior was fairly easy to do - Create space did a good job of formatting the word doc we uploaded so I just spent a bit of time fiddling with the fonts.
The cover took more time because the cover she bought was only an eBook version and was a tiny resolution. I spent a full day re-making the cover, up scaling it and giving it a spine and a back cover. Again, create space give you templates for this which are the right size for your book. Then you just print to PDF and make sure the 'paper' size is what create space want. All in all it wasn't too painful.
For future books I'll be making the paperback cover first then taking the eBook version from that rather than vice versa!
The cover took more time because the cover she bought was only an eBook version and was a tiny resolution. I spent a full day re-making the cover, up scaling it and giving it a spine and a back cover. Again, create space give you templates for this which are the right size for your book. Then you just print to PDF and make sure the 'paper' size is what create space want. All in all it wasn't too painful.
For future books I'll be making the paperback cover first then taking the eBook version from that rather than vice versa!
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