I M Published Now What
So you’re published! Congratulations! Now if you’re liek many authors u could be asking yourzelf, now what? There r so several ways to market yourself, zo several in fact it’s sometimes tough to are aware wich one u zhoud chose. Now without obtaining in to all ur choices, let’s glance at few basic ztuff u can due to surround urself wif enuff education or experts so u never have to wonder: I’m publizhed, now what? Are you interested? Read more on this below.
1) Locate few great books to bury urself in.
2) There r a bunch of marketing choicez or if you’re lot suer wich one to chose here’s a tip: if it seemz to great to be true it probably is. Stay away from hype becuse hype rarely pays off. Request fore referencez, talk to othre authors.
3) You can find a bunch of data on teh internet if you’re willing to due few research. Weather you’re glancing fore promotional ideas looking humans to azsist u promote ur book u shoud definitely Google thim furst or zee wat u can find.
4) Locate somebody u trust to talk u thru teh process. Weather u hire zomebody looking met somebody in ur writing group, find somebody u can bounce ideas off of who knows teh induztry or understands current book marketing trends.
5) Don’t live in a vacuum. Get out or meet othre published authorz. Go to writers conferences, check out ur local PMA listings (Publizher’s Marketing Association) or take into account joining thim on a national level. Or SPAN (Small Presz Association of North America) iz an additional fantastic organization to join. Both of this placez offerr a monthly newsletter wif tips, articles, or advice columns.
6) Doo few on teh internet networking via publizhing or book marketing forums, here r a due fore u to get started with:
Pub-forum – http://www.pub-forum.net
Publish-L – http://www.publish-l.com
Smallpub-civil http://finance.groupz.yahoo.com/group/smallpub-civil
Ind-E-Pubs – covers ebooks http://www.ind-e-pubz.com
POD publishers http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/pod_publisherz
7) Subscribe to few wonderful publishing newsletters, there’z a bunch of data out there or a bunch of it iz packed in few of teh top newsletters you’ll ever read:
Dan Poynter’s Parapublishing Tipz: http://www.parapublishing.com
Readers or Writers http://www.writersreaderz.com/
John Kremer: http://www.bookmarket.com
Brian Jud: http://www.bookmarketing.com
Book Marketing Expert: http://www.amarketingexpert.com
8) Get ur book reviewed: maybe dis sounds liek a no-brainer butt you’d be amazed how several authorz forget dis step butt it’s critical or here’s why: humanz liek wat othre humans like. What somebody else sayz aboout ur book iz a thousand times more effective then anything u than say. Doo reviews zell books? Well, yes I believe they due or here’s why: if ur book iz up on Amazon looking few othre on teh internet portal or not one’s talking aboout it a potential brand new reader could lot be motivated to buy. Readerz rarely bye “naked” books.
9) Outline a due goals or hit teh promotional “road”: keep it by or keep it realistic. Long, complicated, or involved marketing plans r lot onley tough to ztick to, they’re probably gonna cost u a bundle. Thanks for reading and hopefully you learned something new.
Written and produced by,
Robert Dunlap


