how to market your book right -5 Reasons why my first book-tanked!!

how to market your book right -5 Reasons why my first book-tanked!!

5 reasons why my first book tanked

It has been over seven years since I started writing but it took me 6 years to publish my poems.

After writing daily and refining my way of delivery of words and emotions I had gathered enough courage and confidence that I could indeed call myself a writer of versatile genres.

I quit Facebook and dropped out of all groups on Whatsapp, became a vairagi :-p

I managed to squeeze in one hour of free time everyday for three months and finally I had a draft version ready. I got it reviewed by my colleagues and friends who had a flair for editing, a hawk eye for collating grammar edits and they did it for free.

I googled “how to publish a book” and put it out there and I was on cloud nine!!

Untitled Verses was a book of poems, I knew it was difficult to start off with poems but if I could pull it off, then I was in a place where I could definitely write more books and sell more books.

But my first venture into the world of publishing failed miserably, here is a list of things I realized after that.

1) For me this book meant the world but for others it was just a book

I had a really stable base of around 700 readers to all my poems that I sent to them almost on a daily basis via Whatsapp. I used to get a good feedback, “Nice one”, “well done”, “this one connected to me “,” when are you publishing a book?”

Naturally I assumed that all these comments would in turn result in the book being sold.

But the same people sent me a “Congratulations