Reddit – the self-declared front page of the internet. This weird mix of social news aggregate, discussion forum, and content-sharing site has been around since 2005 and, despite the occasional controversy, it continues to be an open, accessible, and mostly friendly place for those interested in, well, anything.
A 3D book mockup is a digitally created image which shows how your book will look when it exists. It’s a great marketing tool when you don’t yet have physical copies, and with full control over angles and lighting, it’s probably the best your book will ever look.
How do you use a photo-based platform to advertise your written work? Good question, and seeing as Instagram boasts over 500,000,000 users who spend nearly an hour a day (on average) perusing the site, one that’s well worth answering.
For a certain type of reader, a book that includes a map of its setting is catnip. For these readers, your blurb, your title, and your cover are secondary concerns: the map’s the thing, and you had them as soon as they saw it.
