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Welcome to Part 2 of our advice on what you need to do once you’ve published your book. In Part 1, we covered the psychology of post-publication, the three-book rule, and the value of different types of review. Here in Part 2, we’ll delve into expanding your platform, using social media to your advantage, how an author site and blog can work for you, advertising, book tours, and using book …
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You had the idea, you wrote the book, you edited it, you perfected it, you published it. Am I going to say ‘now comes the hard part’? No, everything you just did was definitely the hard part. But if you want to find readers and build an enduring readership, there is more work to do. Of course, you’re not afraid of work, you just published a book! So, where do you start? Well, in Part 1 of the …
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Why would you want libraries to buy and stock your book? Well, it’s a surprisingly lucrative source of income, but it’s also a marketing masterstroke. There are almost 120,000 libraries just in the US. For comparison, there are around 14,000 Starbucks stores and just under 11,000 bookstores. Your work will stay on the shelves longer than in a bookstore, and it’s more likely to be picked up, …
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If you’re a young person in the modern workforce (or you know one) you’re likely familiar with job listings that target their salaries and responsibilities at recent graduates while asking for a decade or more of experience in the field. ‘How can I get experience if you won’t give me any experience?’ goes the job-hunter’s lament. For writers, the same frustration can apply; it can be incredibly …
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If genre fiction is Die Hard, The Notebook, and The Hangover – stuff you watch to relax and eat popcorn to – literary fiction is the opposite. It’s the Citizen Kane, The Pianist, the There Will Be Blood of the literary world – books you wouldn’t necessarily call a ‘good time’ but that are artistic, intelligent, and affecting on some deep level. To be lazy and reductive: literary fiction is a …
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When you think of LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, employers, and soon-to-be-graduating students desperate for a job, chances are you don’t think of writers, literary success, or even books. It’s difficult to imagine your target readership getting enthusiastic about their blossoming Network or spending hours trawling through market statistics (unless you’re writing business …
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