If you receive these posts in email and the pictures in the post don’t show for you, tap here janabotkin.net. It will take you to the blog on the internet.
. . .Selling
Selling is the most difficult part of writing a book. There are entire blogs and websites devoted to this topic, and it is as individual as the stories and the authors. I have no answers, no tricks, no proven method. A friend told me (in reference to The Cabins of Wilsonia) “The worn spot in the sink was made drip by drip by drip”.
Here is a list of You Cans:
- Ask some place to host a book signing, such as a local book shop or gift shop or museum or gallery.
- Host your own book signing at your house or a friend’s house or your church or your service club.
- Use the Book of Faces or other (anti)social media.
- Send a press release to your local paper (if there is one).
- Keep books with you at all times.
- Write a newsletter about the book and send it to everyone you know.
- Send emails to everyone you know.
- Give a book every time someone asks for a donation to a fundraiser.
- Look for local businesses to sell the book.
- Pay your publisher to list the book on their site.
- Pay the publisher to list the book on that big online store.
- Start a blog and do all the publicity ideas above to get the word out.
There are many other ways to sell, but this is enough for now.
Indeed. I believe our Reading Rabbit has expired from exhaustion.
2 Comments
8. And don’t forget, the value of that book/donation is tax deductible!
Sharon, good point. I think you would be allowed to deduct the cost of the book rather than the retail value.
Comments are closed for this article!