The Art of Promotion

First off, I'd like to start off by saying that I am so excited to announce the release of my first novella Irish Dreams. I've included the blurb and cover below. In addition to this, I'm going to start a mini-series over the course of the next few weeks as to how to promote your book as this release has been a learning experience and I've barely been able to keep up.

So your book comes out and it sells and you automatically become a best-selling, well-known author. Wrong! Not that I thought that, but I certainly didn't think about all the ins and outs of promoting a book. There are so many websites out there, so many tools.

Most if not all of the big guys (Amazon.com, B&N, etc.) selling books have author pages for you to put up a bio, photo, blog and list of books. Publishers will have these pages too. In addition to these, there are sites like Goodreads that allow you to interact with readers. These sites also have author pages that allow you to put up information about you and your books. And of course, I can't forget the reviewers like those on ManicReaders who are a huge part of book promotion, not to mention very valuable to the general public in that they keep us up-to-date on the great books out there. Then there are trailers and blogs and of course Facebook. Wow! It never seems to end. But that's it for today. I'll go into the bits and pieces over the next few weeks—it's still somewhat of a learning experience for me as well.

In the mean time, enjoy…

Blurb:

It's one thing to resist an Irish dream, quite another to resist a dreamy Irishman.

After being traded for another woman by her fiance, Maggie decides she's had it with men. Good thing she's far away from him, in Ireland fulfilling her best friend's request to be maid-of-honor. Wicklow and the Emerald Isle are more than she expects—green, lush, and exactly what she needs. What she doesn't need is rescuing by some emerald-eyed charmer.

Newly divorced, Ethan Moore is ready to enjoy bachelorhood. Only one problem—the fiery-haired Maggie Christy. Unlike any woman he's ever met, Maggie draws him close and turns him inside out. The attraction is unexpected and inconvenient, but nobody ever said true love was easy.

WARNING: Exceedingly charming Irishmen and sexually explicit scenes.

 

 

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