As a reader what can I do to help promote you and your books?
I’m getting lots and lots of email asking me this so I thought I’d paste in my FAQ answer. And THANK YOU!
As a reader what can I do to help promote you and your books?
You can wrap your arms around yourself and hug yourself from me. I mean it. The fact so many of you email to ask me how you can help spread the word about me/my books is awesome! The best way to help is by asking your local bookstores/libraries carry my books. Another awesome way to help is by taking the time to write a quick online review of my books—Amazon, Barnes and Noble, ARE, they all offer spots for readers to write reviews. I have to say, it tickles me to no end when readers go the extra mile and write a review (good or bad). I understand fully that taking time out of one’s busy day to comment about my title is important, again, good or bad comments.
Sum up for what you as a reader can do to help spread the word about me and my titles:
Talk about my books online.
Post about my books.
Blog about my books.
Put up online reader reviews (always honest, if you hate a title say so, I won’t hold it against you… if you love it, say so)—It should be noted that The Raven Books/ my other pub houses already has a set number of “professional” review sites that they automatically sends to and they have a person in charge of this who tracks and logs all ARCs sent for review to professional sites.
Agree/disagree with reviews already posted on various vendors
Hit the LIKE button on my titles at vendors
Agree or disagree with TAG words on vendors.
If you see someone is reading an author who is similar to me, suggest they try me (politely, of course… but we know this goes without saying).
Anything online is the single MOST important thing you can do to help me. Why? Simple, because the majority of my sales have ALWAYS come from ebooks. And with the market shift moving towards ebooks more and more each day this is becoming so for many authors. Not just me.
If you would like some promo goodies (bookmarks, etc) to pass around to your friends, local bookstores, reading groups and libraries please email me mandyATmandyrothDOTcom with subject header PROMO GOODIES. Include your name and snail mail addy in the email. I can’t promise when they’ll be mailed out or how many will be sent. It depends on what I have on hand and how often my personal assistant is able to get to mailings.
