13 Things To Do After Publishing Your Next Book – Guest Post by, Toni Pike…

Author Toni Pike shares 13 quick steps you can take after publishing your first novel. Many I’ve seen elsewhere, but if it’s really your first novel, this may be new to you. Also good for promoting your first published online poem or short story.

PS, you should explore some of these before you publish too.

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You have already published your first book. As part of that process, you set up your author pages on Amazon and other distribution sites such as Smashwords. You also established your own website, Facebook author page, Goodreads Author page, Twitter account and accounts on other social media platforms.

Now the time has come to publish your next book. You upload it and, hey presto, a short time later your precious creation goes live. Here is a list of thirteen housekeeping jobs to attend to before beginning the hard work of post-publication marketing.

1. Assemble your Buyer Links

Assemble a list of the new buyer links for adding to your website, signatures and posts.

2. Your Amazon Author Pages

Update your author pages on Amazon USA, UK, France, Germany and Japan: claim the new book and modify your biography.

3. The Author Page on other distribution sites, such as Smashwords

Modify…

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