By:
Toby Neal
Box
sets are a thing with the weather warming and people loading
up on beach reads. I have been asked to put my books in a boxed set numerous
times and declined for various reasons, but I finally decided to try it,
putting my romantic suspense standalone Stolen In Paradise in a set of ten novels
we called Passion and Danger.
Things
to consider when deciding to put your book in a box set with other authors:
Have
a clear goal
Having
a target objective is an important part of deciding to join a box set, so
consider yours . The objective of our group was to get onto one of the big
bestseller lists—USA Today, etc. I had never gone after this before, choosing
instead to focus my sales efforts on Amazon, so this goal appealed to me as a
milestone to achieve. Other common goals include raising money for a cause (we
did that too, also appealing) exposing your work to readers who wouldn’t
otherwise find it, building relationships/sharing readerships, and just plain
sales when there might have been few.
Have
a solid group leader
In
our situation, Kim Hornsby recruited us to the project and was an
unflagging source of enthusiasm, promotion ideas, cheerleading, and putting out
a ton of advertising money and effort herself, thus motivating us.
Have
a healthy budget to meet your aim
We
each contributed a small amount for advertising, and seriously underestimated
the cost of the blitz of PR necessary to break onto the big lists. We weren’t
able to achieve our goal, at least in part for lack of funding and a ton of
competition in the same genre. Live and learn!
Share
responsibilities, have equal participation, and spell this out in advance
.
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