For book/ebook authors, publishers, & self-publishers
"Your life changes when you meet people." - Sterling Valentine
I want to encourage the authors and publishers on this Book Marketing Network to work together to help each other to sell more books. That's the main reason I created this network in the first place.
There are so many ways that you can help each other. For example, I wrote an article on 30 Ways to Help a Book Author You Love - http://www.bookmarket.com/loveawriter.htm. Most of those ways apply not only to your friends but also to authors helping each other.
In addition, you can do joint ventures, Amazon Bestseller Campaigns, blog tours, and more.
Please use this forum right here to list your requests for partners as well as your responses or offers to help other authors.
You'll be amazed at what you can accomplish if you work together rather than alone.
For example, I'd love to see a fiction writers co-op promotion where each novelist promotes the other members in the co-op on their blog or website or social network. Tweet about each other. Like each others' Facebook page. Do joint blog tours.
Poets can do the same thing. So can business book authors. Spiritual authors. Christian authors. Cookbook authors. Etc.
Tags: author co-ops, author promotions, book marketing, book promotion
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Permalink Reply by Shawn Lamb on Would appreciate some Tweets on my latest giveaway:
It has been a long time since I contributed something to this network. I've been too busy and only now got a chance to post. I joined the Greater Los Angeles Writers Society(GLAWS) and while I was skeptical at first I must say it was very different from my other join which fizzled. Not only do I have access to better resources and chances to display and sell my books at local LA venues, I am beginning to be recognized as an author in the community. I will be signing books at the grand opening of a branch of Mysterious Galaxy Books March 31, and will be participating with GLAWS at the LA Times Festival of Books. I have also shed my two sites and integrated them into one (like before, only better) at my new site: theresammoore.com, and I have started selling books online. Part of the problems I had were associated with email comm at my old sites, and I had no tech support when it came to processing forms. So I dumped the old service and got my site with a new one. My offer of listing space is still open. Check out my FAQ.
Well, the bloom came off the rose early. Not only did the event's organizers screw up communications, they "uninvited" me to the event after I was formally accepted and signed off on the liability release. Suffice to say that I was completely flummoxed by this turn of events. Other friends have reminded me that I could sue them for breach but I feel that enough damage has been done already to my trust of others that I have simply withdrawn from all further participation in their programs. Consequently I will not be at the LA Time Festival of Books at their booth, and I will not be renewing my membership. I may try again at LATFOB next year on my own or with some other group which is not so confused that it can't clarify anything I could have done to make the situation better. (They seemed to be more concerned about what kind of wine or cheese to bring to the signing than coordinating better with the signers.) For my part I made a simple and honest mistake in bringing books to the bookstore early based on two contradicting documents they gave me to follow, and I was forced to remove the books from the store myself. The bookstore's manager assured me that I would have the opportunity to consign in a couple of months when they were more organized and ready to accept indie books, and I do not hold the bookstore culpable. But for me, GLAWS is another example of an amateur group posing as something more professional and I would recommend you avoid them in the future.
I wrote a guest blog for www.savvywriters.wordpress.com on writing a book from love letters. Or, you can get the tips directly from me at my Cozy Book Basics blog on margaretvirany.com
My offer of hosting genre titles on my site still stands: Books by Other Authors
I'd be very interested in doing a guest spot on your blog. Please contact me at rbennett@enablingwords.com.
Permalink Reply by Aileen Stewart on http://www.aileenwstewart.blogspot.com/ Hi everyone. I have entered my blog in the GoodReads contest and would greatly appreciate it if you would pop on over to my site and vote for me. Thanks so much!
Permalink Reply by William Yatscoff on Authors working together is a great idea, but there must be a better way to increase the amount of books you sell. Why not create a group of authors that reads each others books and posts reviews on the major book selling sites? We know that reviews help in ranking. So it could be worth a try.
Unfortunately this has already been done ad infinitum. One of these sites is called GoodReads, and it's not as good at doing its job as you might think. I stopped working with it when I found that no reader there is interested in anything but free books, no reviewer is interested in following through with a review, and Amazon has basically taken it over. As for reviews, there are more one-star reviews posted out of maliciousness than honest criticism. Another is called Shelfari, and there is an abundance of other sites which basically do the same thing.
Permalink Reply by William Yatscoff on True, but those aren't all author to author. Those are all Reader to Author. I understand that going Author to Author for reviews may be a little manipulative, but if it puts you ahead of the pack then what is the problem?
There must be a better way. You would think that some authors would be interested in making a group to help promote each others books, pool resources, etc. Especially since crowd sourcing is so huge these days.
Permalink Reply by Vincent Casale on It is still an uphill climb, however no work no results. My new book The Coparazzi, is now on Amazon and Barnes 7 Noble.com
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