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Thanks much Matt. Your advice. I have both an eBook and a paperback at Amazon. Oct. 22 thru Oct. 26 you can download my ebook for free. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0100W111O I'm on Facebook but I am terrible with its rules of usage. My goal for today will be to get up to speed on Facebook. Which is your best book? I will buy and review. See you on Facebook Wayne

Matt Carrell Wayne - Thai Lottery is a series of short stories set in Pattaya - Thai Kiss is a novel - similar theme. Vortex is a financial thriller set in Bangkok…moreWayne - Thai Lottery is a series of short stories set in Pattaya - Thai Kiss is a novel - similar theme. Vortex is a financial thriller set in Bangkok - any of those will give you an idea of my stuff. Link on Facebook and I can give you a few more specific ideas for getting noticed.(less)

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Hi Matt, I just published my first book, "Memoirs of a Dirty Old Man in Thailand". It took me one year to write and I'm dedicating the next tear to promoting the book. I am impressed by your list of books and ratings. Do you have any advice on marketing? Wayne Aubry

Matt Carrell Hi Wayne - happy to help if I can.
Marketing is the hard part I'm afraid - there's literally a million self published authors out there all screaming f…moreHi Wayne - happy to help if I can.
Marketing is the hard part I'm afraid - there's literally a million self published authors out there all screaming for attention. All I can do is list the things I did that worked and the things that didn't.

What worked -
No 1 - I did a lot of my research on a Thai forum - made some friends on there and one of them gave my first book a good plug. I've engaged with a lot of the members and they are really good at spreading the word.
Facebook - I've hooked up with a lot of other writers (Thai bias) on Facebook - they have their own fanbase and they've been kind to me. I've had really successful authors like Tim Hallinan share my posts. If you are on there - find me and I'll help you get acquainted.
GoodReads participation and giveaways get you noticed. Maybe you'd never have heard of me if I wasn't on here.
Are you doing e-book or paperback too? Highly recommend the latter. I've given away a lot of review copies.
You need to know who you're targeting and get in front of them. The forums are good for that but I've also offered free articles for magazines that give me some coverage.
I've got three or four blogs and reshare the posts regularly - with an autolink to Facebook - one is here http://journalism-factorfiction.blogs...
One other thought - your title suggests something quite lurid. Are you sure this is what you want to do. It will draw a lot of readers in - but it will drive far more away. I write about the dark side of Thailand but there is no explicit sex in my books - so I get a lot of women readers.
I have a pretty decent web-site that brings all my stuff together in one place. I'm not an IT geek - but if you know you're way round a computer it isn't that hard to create and maintain.
I entered three or four writing competitions and got into the winner's circle in two of them - good PR for your Amazon page.
Finally - stuff like this is good. Contacting other authors is a great idea and you're already guaranteed a sale. Send the link when you're ready and I'll buy a copy. If I like it I'll post a review.

Things that didn't work (for me - others may disagree)
Twitter - you have to really work at this to get any feedback. I did make some contacts and definitely sold some books - but at disproportionate cost in terms of time and effort. Also I joined a site for authors wishing to promote their books and my followers leapt by 1,000. All authors. SO when I tweeted - half my followers were not interested in buying books only selling their own.
I've done a few free promos of books - and of short stories that are supposed to draw people in to the short stories. It didn't llok to me as though it had any longer term impact on sales.
I haven't tried it - but I'm very skeptical about paid advertising - there's just too much of it out there.

Summary - it's all about targeting people who might like your book - not about just shouting from the rooftops. If you do social media - don't just spam people. Most of my Facebook posts are nothing to do with the books.

Find me on Facebook - happy to chat about this. Good luck with your book.

Matt.
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	Thai Kiss 4.02 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thai Lottery... and Other Stories from Pattaya, Thailand 3.71 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vortex 4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vortex... the Endgame 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood Brothers... Thai Style 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Matter of Life and Death 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Something Must Be Done 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I wrote about the Thai sex industry and people ask me how many bar-girls I slept with. I've just completed a short story about a High School shooting but nobody thinks I shot anyone.”
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“You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffers except my karma a little bit. I don't do big harm. You prostitute your mind. Mind is seat of Buddha. What you do is very very bad. You should not use your mind in that way”
― John Burdett, Bangkok Tattoo

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“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

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“People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

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