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4 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW (BEFORE PUBLISHING YOUR BOOK)

By: Heather Hart

The saying “If you build it, they will come” isn’t true for authors. 

Just because you write a book, doesn’t mean that people will buy it or read it. In this post, I share four things authors need to know (preferably before they ever publish their book).

4 Things You Need To Know

1. Who Your Target Audience Is

If you don’t have any idea who will read your book, that’s a problem. You won’t know who to market it to later on. Writing is a great form of therapy, but if you wrote your book solely for yourself, you probably aren’t ready to publish. If you dream of selling books, you need to picture who would buy them.

Who would benefit from reading your book?

Who would enjoy your book?

Who will you sell it to?

And just so you know, “everyone” is not the right answer — be specific. Narrowing down your target audience doesn’t mean that they are the only ones allowed to buy your books, it just means that they are the ones you are going to specifically market it to the majority of the time.

2. Quality Matters

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Read the full article HERE!

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If you missed my writing & marketing tweets and retweets yesterday, here they are again:

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Happy writing and running, Kathy