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Comment by Janet Starr Hull on January 30, 2013 at 11:27am

Sharon's giving you good advice. Your publisher should provide you some marketing support at the initial pub, and when you let them know your ideas to promote your book, you can work together to double-punch the launch. Once you have gotten started, then you can take it from there and keep the energy flowing. Publishers appreciate an author taking action, and they typically will get you started using their budget. They like to see an author willing to put forth the effort to promote the book after the initial campaign. 

Comment by Sharon Lindenburger on January 30, 2013 at 10:26am

Sondra, does your publisher give you any marketing support or PR? If so, then you should perhaps meet with their marketing and PR person about what strategies they might be willing to implement. In terms of publicity you can do on your own, recently I met a woman who is an ace marketer. She has a number of programs but the one that might interest you is her press release program...website is www.pressreleasesuccess.com. This program I think is only $67 to get a complete guidebook program for having success with press releases aimed at getting media interviews. The woman's name is Shannon Cherry. You could check her other websites too. I am not an affiliate in these programs, so I am not making money by recommending her programs. My recommendation is based only on my impression that she seems to really know her stuff and is a really nice person as well.

Comment by Sondra Sneed on January 30, 2013 at 9:35am

Deborah,

My publisher informed me this weekend that my book will be available April 4, much much sooner than originally anticipated.  This means I don't have much time for ramp up to launch.  Do you, or anyone, have suggestions, a list of "must do's" before the launch day?

Sondra Sneed

Book title: What to Do When You're Dead: A Former Atheist Interviews the Source of Infinite Being

Comment by Linda McGee Graber on November 29, 2012 at 6:07pm

Our book, "Patient's Dental Handbook"...intelligent treatment decisions and affordable innovative cosmetics is available at www.tatepublishing.com  Would enjoy hearing your comments.

Comment by Jason Meszaros on November 4, 2012 at 9:49pm

I started a promotion on my book, Interrogation of Morals, this morning and it already hit #1 in two categories (Terrorism and Intelligence) Very cool!!! If you want it to sell you have to promote it!

Comment by Christine on November 4, 2012 at 5:39pm

Thank you Deborah for the invitation! I look forward to reading all of your comments!

Peace~Christine

Comment by Jason Meszaros on November 2, 2012 at 11:52am

Win a Kindle Fire!!!

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Comment by Zachary Smith on October 22, 2012 at 4:16pm

I'm interested to hear about others experiences with the KDP.  It is an option I have been considering very strongly.

Comment by David Prosser on October 22, 2012 at 1:35pm

All of this self promotion makes us entrepreneurial but boy does it eat into writing time. Following all the different media outlets is definitely time consuming. I grant it's easy enough to set tweets to appear daily at the same time but it's easy to annoy followers doing this and by tweeting the same material. You have to vary the wording and try to be eye catching to draw them in. 

Kindle KDP is the thing that had me baffled though as I didn't have one loan there which meant my ebooks were tied up for nothing. Maybe I write in an unpopular genre and the competition is seriously fierce so now I've joined ASMSG to have others tweet me nd give me potential exposure to more than 330,000 people. Will it work this time?

Comment by Jan Lazo-Davis on October 22, 2012 at 12:35pm

It's been my experience that Entrepreneurs come in many different expressions. The cool part of being a Writer Entrepreneur is I am able to use my creative personality to break out of the box as I look for markets for my craft.

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