This article was ready to publish a month ago when we exposed the Amazon/Booksurge Ultimatum. While we’re, of course, still publishing updates about Amazon/Booksurge, I’m VERY happy that we’re able to get back to book selling this week!
Public speaking – book talks – author readings. If you’re lucky, you’ll get the chance to showcase your writing in a public forum. What a thrill and boost to the ego it is to stand in front of a group of people who are hanging on your every word; people who spend their free time immersing themselves in your thoughts, ideas and expressions.
Hi Angela,
I am enjoying your “Online Book Marketing That Works” series, and have gotten so many great tips. In Part V, you focus on free advertising.
If a writer did want to invest some money in this type of advertising, can you recommend a few places to do so? I’ve tried researching this online myself, but there were so many possibilites that I didn’t know where to begin.
Thanks for your help.
Antonia
As a single mother, I was desperate to make some extra money. I tried working a second job, but after I paid child care for my two young children, I pretty much broke even for my time and trouble. Plus, I missed my kids. All of the work-at-home jobs I found turned out to be scams and I truly didn’t know what to do.
On Saturday evening, we were feeding the ducks at a campground pond. They were pretty aggressive. Okay, they were incredibly aggressive…
Well, if it looks like a competitor, and acts like a competitor, and smells like a competitor…
I’m not sure if you’ve heard but the Dear Author blog has a 600+ comment post about romance writer Deborah McGillivray and the Amazon system. Here is the link.
There is also a petition in place to try to get Amazon to change their rating system. See: https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/amazon_change/
Keep up the good fight.
A.T.
Writers know that nothing can match the thrill of seeing your words printed and bound between the pages of a national glossy, or better yet, perched on a bookshelf in a full-color wrapper. Unfortunately, for many of us, those experiences – and the resulting financial rewards – are few and far between…
Where does one draw the line between spam (unsolicited emails) and queries? Is it possible that if you sent a publication an email query they might report you for spamming and cause some problems for you? Obviously we don’t have publishers opt-in for query letters, or is that implied by the fact that they are in the business they are and publish submission guidelines?
