The Hype Behind a Book Launch

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This last month has been emotionally exhausting and exhilarating at the same time. I had my book professional edited by an editor at Reedsy.com and she did a fabulous job getting me my final edited manuscript the day she said she would with lots of personal suggestions to improve my book. She took a personal interest in it and the topic.

Getting the manuscript back on time and edited is so big to me because I went with a local editor on my When Will Papa Get Home? book and he didn’t meet the deadline–I had to push and push and then he didn’t do a stellar job of editing. There were LOTS of mistakes and I caught most of them on a final edit.

For this book, I had the cover created by fiverr.com and I was disappointed with the person I selected, but the cover finally turned out great. I had to keep delaying the publication date with createspace.com because of the repeated revisions that I had to do on the cover, but finally on Sunday it was a go.

I have many of the pieces in place for the book launch:

An author’s web site
An author’s Facebook page
Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn accounts
I just put together a Goodreads Giveaway
A landing page to promote my book.
Email lists I just emailed and that I will continue to email.

I have a launch party set for June 21, so–WOW! It’s here!

Today, I breath a sigh of relief–another baby of mine is born. Now the work of marketing comes!

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