Sunday's Links to Writing & Marketing Blog Posts

BOOSTING SALES FOR A BOOK

By: Elizabeth S. Craig

Writers sometimes ask me, usually anxiously, what they can do to help boost sales. Inevitably, they have only one book published.

I know when I was just traditionally-published I had that underlying feeling that I should be doing more for my book.  That I was leaning too much on Penguin and they weren’t, actually, even doing all that much for sales.

As a self-published author, I think this feeling is magnified. After all, we’re 100% responsible for sales.

And I hate that anyone giving advice about sales sounds like a broken record, but…I think the standard advice is sound.

Things we can do to try and improve sales:

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

• Investigating Author-Publisher Dynamics: Results from the 2015 Author Survey | Digital Book World http://ow.ly/Vwyfp
• Emotional Wounds Thesaurus Entry: Failing To Do the Right Thing - WRITERS HELPING WRITERS™WRITERS HELPING WRITERS™ http://ow.ly/VwBKZ
• How to Improve Your Amazon Book Description & Metadata | Jane Friedman http://ow.ly/VwEo4
• NaNoWriMo Is Over. Now What? http://ow.ly/VwEsN
• The Best Reason to Blog — 2015 Edition | Jami Gold, Paranormal Author http://ow.ly/VwEvb
• Boosting Sales For a Book - Elizabeth Spann Craig http://ow.ly/VwEzI
• How To Turn Your #NaNoWriMo Project Into a Real Novel | The Creative Penn http://ow.ly/VwESv
• Facebook Brings Facebook Messenger to Websites: This Week in Social Media Social Media Examiner http://ow.ly/VwFgh
• Your Kink Is Not My Kink http://ow.ly/VwFme by Cathy Yardley
• How to Record Interviews: The Renegade Writer’s Ultimate Guide http://ow.ly/VwFtL

Happy writing and running, Kathy