Marketing Your Book

[Jo Zebedee]

I wanna win your comp, Jo!

That's the other fab bit about it - it's entirely run by Goodreads. I just get told who the winner is. Which keeps it lovely and impartial and above board. (Good luck!)

 

[Stephen Palmer]

I know! But I do like a freebie...

 

[thaddeus6th]

Np, Jo. Surprised me as well (worth checking Jo Michaels' blog at jomichaels.blogspot.co.uk as she does have some cunning tidbits on promotion. And if you go down the self-publishing route she runs an annual competition whereby those who submit a book have a chance of an honest review [got a nice one for Temple]).

 

[mgilmour]

Everything is working well with SFFAuthors.com.
The few technical issues seem to be cleared up and it's starting to get some sign-ups....which is really good! I've now linked in a number of additional sources of really interesting scifi and fantasy content which is great! One of the authors has also uploaded their cover artwork and I'm about to turn one of them into a free advertisement to help promote his book. They have also added an event to help promote their own book signing....which is really cool!

So what do I really need write now?
1. Authors that want to promote their books
2. Anyone that has a blog and wants greater distribution. If you have an RSS feed then that's all that's required or you can directly blog from SFFAuthors.com.
3. Sign-ups and feedback

As soon as a good number of authors are in place I plan on sending around 1,000 people per day to the website to generate interest in the authors work.

Wish us all luck!

 

[mgilmour]

OK - this is REALLY COOL!
I just integrated twitter into SFFAuthors.com. This means that you can now post a message on the site and a tweet is automagically sent out (with your permission of course). It also means that you can pull any tweets from people that you follow directly into your profile page.

This has solved so many problems for me....so please excuse my enthusiasm.

 

[DrMclony]

This shows some real promise! Thanks for your efforts.

 

[mgilmour]

This shows some real promise! Thanks for your efforts.

Thanks for that! I really appreciate the feedback.

 

[mgilmour]

I've just added a new feature to SFFAuthors.

• When you make posts in SFFAuthors they are automatically added to your Facebook timeline. This means that you no longer have to remember to go to various websites plus Facebook and Twitter and do the same post....it's all automagic!
• Any authors that wish to have their blogs syndicated on SFFAuthors.com to reach more readers just let me know. I'm happy to set this up for you.

Cheers!

 

[DrMclony]

I know a few people who like that sort of thing. It certainly sounds like a lot of people will find it useful. Me? I'm way too much of a control freak when it comes to my social media. I hate giving posting control to anything that is not me at the keyboard! I only have one exception at the moment, thats a twitter plugin on my website but even that concerns me a little.