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What's Your Biggest Challenge with Your Book?
I'd be interested to learn what authors/publishers on this network think their biggest challenges are with their book. I wonder if there's any common, pervasive challenge we all face.
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Permalink Reply by MARY CLARK on
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My biggest challenge will be getting people to read it.
Molested at age 8, run over by a train at age 9,My teen and adult years I was addicted to drugs and alcohol. I wrote this book "My Tragedy My Life My Testimony" praying that it will help or save someone else's life. Written by: Mary Louise Clark
OUT IN SEPTEMBER
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Permalink Reply by albertasequeira on
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Hi Mary,
I'm on the other end of the alcoholic family. I'm the mother who lost Lori in 2006. I wrote Someone Stop This Merry-Go-Round; An Alcoholic Family in Crisis.
When your book is published, give talks. Reach the people.
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Permalink Reply by Susan Klopfer on
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Your advice on giving talks really helps. Sometimes I feel like I'm on a Merry-go-round just trying to plan everything I should do to sell my book. And I haven't finished writing it, yet.
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Hi Susan,
It's always good to have a plan before the book comes out. With your past and pain, I think talks are your best bet. When I talked at the Providence Marriott Hotel in Rhode Island, I sold 26 books, almost a complete box of 32. It was my first huge audience of 150 women and with a priest named Fr. Randall. It was for the Magnificat, a Catholic Woman's Ministry. That was in February of this year. From that talk, another leader from the Magnificat in Boston, MA was there and asked me to talk to her group on Dec. 12th. I got paid from the Ministry (which I didn't expect) on top of selling my books. This is where you get known. Like other authors have said, "GO TO YOUR AUDIENCE."
I found two wonderful books with promoting and marketing. The first is 1001 ways to Market Your Books by John Kremer and Bliz (Getting Your Book in the News) by Barbara Gaughen and Ernest Weckbaugh. I'm sure there are others.
If you can't afford the books, go online and order used ones. They state the condition they are in. If not, go to your library.
But, get a website up now talking about your future book. Put excerpts in to tease the people hitting on your site. Add a picture of yourself so the people can connect to your face and life experience.
Go to bookstores and introduce yourself. Leave a flier with an Introduction, a Bio, and excerpts. See if you can do future readings and book signing. Get a relationship with the managers going now.
I hope these help. GET SEEN IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
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Thank you, Do you have any suggestions as to how
I would go about doing that on the internet lol
read the FIRST LINE AGAIN of the small bio to see why I asked you that.
Again thank you for your suggestions and your support.
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I'm not sure where your bio is. I don't see a website. If you don't have a website, get one up and running. You can get free ones if you can't afford one. Go to my site and see one that I had professionally done www.albertasequeira.com. I advertise my book on it and offer Paypal as a way of paying for an autographed book with any credit card.
Go to www.booksinsync.com and join as a member to promote your book and yourself. It only cost $25.00 a year! You'll get reviews, interviews, internet exposure, etc. for that cheap price. I'm on the site also.
Call newspapers, cable TV, and radio shows to see if they will do a story on you. It cost no money for it.
Do a book signing at bookstores, leave books with them on consignment. Go to rehabs, halfway homes and woman's organizations to talk.
Always keep a box of your books and business cards in the car. Go to hotels, restaurants, restrooms, airports, etc. and leave your business cards with your book on them. Have the publisher's site to order them.
There is a lot to do. GET SEEN AND NOTICED!
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Permalink Reply by J. Steve Miller on
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Concerning setting up a site, what recommendations do people have for people starting a site? Back when I put up my sites, we did it with tools such as MicroSoft Frontpage or Dreamweaver. Now those tools have become much more complicated to use (primarily because of Cascading Style Sheets.) Thus, many people are arguing that if you want to set up a site, do it in a blog environment, such as Wordpress . I believe this is free for their basic plan, then you may have to pay a reasonable fee for add-ons.
From what I understand, a Wordpress blog can look just like a regular site, with multiple pages, but can have a traditional-looking blog for one of those pages. A benefit is supposedly that neophytes can learn to maintain it so that they don't have to keep hiring programmers/designers. Also, the pages are more easily indexed by search engines, syndicated, etc. to maximize your exposure on the web.
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Hi Steve,
I'm no expert. I started four years ago with www.networksolutions.com because they seemed easy. I also liked the fact they help you step by step 24/7 with any problem or no knowledge to what you are doing. I had a professional do mine about three weeks ago. Visit the site at www.albertasequeira.com.
I liked the way she sorted everything. I had good info but scattered all over my site. I like it much better.
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By the way, Steve, the expert did my site through my already networksolutions website. She became my technical support and has a password to make changes.
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Nice site. Thanks for sharing. Your sort of look like Meryl Street!!
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Thanks Susan,
I wish I had Meryl's money and fame!
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Permalink Reply by Shawna Savage-Yaroch on
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Hi everyone, I apologize for not being able to read the threads or add to the discussions this past two weeks. I have been writing intensely, in a 12 residency at the University, formatting my manuscript to the publishers guidelines, organizing marketing research and changing all the cites in may manuscript to Chicago Style. Plus working my full time job. Wow was that it? LOL
Anyways I am combing through the site today and bookmarking all your sites and helpful links regarding marketing my book. You have all proved to be wonderful and inviting to us for time authors, Thank You.
Shawna
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