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Neil Ostroff's Blog – May 2014 Archive (6)

Reviews for sale! - Never pay for a review!

I’ve touched on this subject many times but it warrants repeating. Never pay someone to read and review one of your books. Paid reviewers give glowing reports on the books they read even if the books are terrible. Why? Because they want your repeat business. Would you pay someone a second time if they gave your book a bad review the first time? Of course…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on May 28, 2014 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

Writing withdrawal

I recently completed and published my tenth book. It took nearly fourteen months working at my computer from three to five hours a day. Seeing the book for sale worldwide is both exhilarating and relieving. I had planned to finish it while on my recent vacation but since I completed it a month ahead of schedule I found myself on vacation with nothing to write.

 

This has never happened before. I’ve always had a project that…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on May 24, 2014 at 1:28pm — No Comments

More marketing advice

 

I recently published my tenth ebook in the last three years. I didn’t write all of these books in that time frame, some are decades in the making, but all have been meticulously proofread and edited. In my quest to sell books I’ve made every mistake a new author can and spent thousands on promotions that didn’t work.

 

As my latest book begins the process of getting noticed and reviewed, there are still a…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on May 14, 2014 at 11:52am — No Comments

Getting sales

When it comes to marketing and promoting your book nothing beats grassroots marketing and word-of-mouth promotion. That said, I’ve joined an exciting new online writers group devoted to paying it forward through various methods of promotion, including tweets, Facebook, and word-of-mouth promotion.

   Getting noticed above the massive flood of new books is hard, but the task becomes easier when authors help each other. That’s what this group…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on May 10, 2014 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Is marketing worth it?

I’ve been reading a lot of threads and forums lately dealing with the topic of marketing your book. It seems there are a lot of “newbies” out there in this relatively virgin explosion of indie publishing and many can’t understand why their books aren’t selling. When asked if these new authors market and promote their books most say yes, but complain that they have…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on May 7, 2014 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

What a great day!

What a great day! First, this new 5-star review for DROP OUT.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring,

By LisaC - See all my…

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Added by Neil Ostroff on May 1, 2014 at 12:24pm — No Comments

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