Debbie Young's Blog, page 59
July 21, 2013
Top Tips For Marketing YOUR Book
This blog about how to market your self-published book supplements Sell Your Books!, my book promotion handbook for indie authors, available worldwide in paperback and e-book. For a constant stream of effective ideas and fresh inspiration, based on helpful examples … Continue reading →
July 1, 2013
How To Sell More Books: Start A National Awareness Day – with flash fiction writer Calum Kerr
About a year ago, not long before my book promotion handbook Sell Your Books! went to press, I was bowled over by an audacious publicity ploy called National Flash Fiction Day (NFFD). Now, I’d never really heard of flash fiction, but a … Continue reading →
June 23, 2013
How to Use Guest Posts to Sell More Books – A Practical Demonstration
I’ve blogged before about how guest blog posts can help you raise your visibility and so sell more of your books, whether you’re host or guest. I’m pleased to share with you now a practical example of how I’ve just … Continue reading →
June 18, 2013
How to Use National Events to Promote Your Books (for National Flash Fiction Day)
Coming up this Saturday is National Flash Fiction Day – which a year ago turned me into a fan of a genre I’m not sure I’d even heard of before. Since then, I’ve enjoyed reading several volumes and often dip … Continue reading →
June 14, 2013
How to Use Your Hobbies to Sell More Books: with Historical Re-enactor Paula Lofting
When I discovered that historical novelist Paula Lofting is a keen historical re-enactor, I wondered whether she used her hobby to promote her book. I always say don’t just sell your book, sell the author too - so I was pleased to … Continue reading →
June 11, 2013
How to Sell More Books by Creating Online Events
I’ve blogged before about how running author events can help you sell your books (and how attending other people’s events can give you ideas for your own), but this week I’m focusing on events based online. One of the great … Continue reading →
June 4, 2013
Does Book Marketing Begin at Home? How Author Relatives May Help You Promote Your Book
With so much talk in the news lately about the rights and wrongs of parents helping their children get a step up on the career ladder, I wondered what difference it makes to an author to have a parent who … Continue reading →
May 28, 2013
How to Sell More Books: Get Involved with Events
In Chapter 9 of Sell Your Books, I cover how to make the most of promotional events, dwelling mostly on book launches. But there are many other events that you can use to reach readers, from the humblest local fete … Continue reading →
May 21, 2013
How to Sell More Books: Seize Handselling Opportunities
It’s all too easy, in this age of internet bookselling, to focus only on your online sales figures, allowing allow handselling opportunities to pass you by. But if you look out for them, you’ll be surprised at how many of … Continue reading →
May 12, 2013
How to Sell More Books: Diversify – with Guest Author Jessica Bell
One way to raise your profile as a writer is to diversify, especially if you are self-publishing your work or being published by a small independent press. As I’ve said in a previous post, the best way to sell more … Continue reading →
