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Relying on pictures isn’t natural for authors but an author photo is one of the easiest, most effective forms of marketing available to you. They may not be worth a thousand of your wonderful words but they can immediately communicate vital information and help establish you as a brand with your readers. What’s your author photo for? It has two purposes: 1. To inform readers about the type of …
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Whether you’re technologically savvy or not, in this day and age every author needs a website. In this article I’ll tell you the features you need to create a professional fiction author’s website that works for you, but first you need to know exactly what it is you’re trying to achieve. If you are looking for a good value hosting company with excellent support, I recommend SiteGround. The two …
Deciding how to price your ebook is a tricky business, especially because there are no hard and fast rules to help you decide what’s best. Do you set the price low in the hope of increasing traction and gaining new readers? Or, do you go higher and hope to build up a loyal readership who value your writing and actually read your books? As I said, tricky. I am going to tell you something that …
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As an author, the secret to finding your target audience is not to list everyone who might be interested in your book. That's a simple way to waste your book marketing efforts. Oh no, the key is to find your one perfect reader. You know, the reader who buys every single one of your books. The reader who signs up to your newsletter, pays attention to every word you write, and who knows your main …
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Writing a book blurb is a little like online dating, I suppose. You’ve snagged a prospective “date” by your alluring cover, so now you’ve got to show there’s more than just surface appeal. The blurb of your book is the second thing a potential reader will look at after the cover—so take the time to get it right. Your book blurb (aka online description), like your dating profile, has to be …
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You want to get media coverage to promote your book. You've done the press release thing. You've created a stir on Twitter, you even dressed up as a character from your book and ran around town quoting lines from it. But the phone just isn't ringing. What you don't know is that yesterday, your website was visited by Jake, the literary editor of a major newspaper in New York. He came, saw, …
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