Writing 101 - Publicizing Your Book or Novel

Once a novel or book is published it must be publicized to derive sales. (If you ego print a book of history for your contiguous family, there is no problem. You just give them a transcript and you are finished.)

If you have got a publishing house like Random House®, they will manage the promotion for you. You may have got to travel to book sign languages or look on radiocommunication and telecasting shows to ballyhoo the book, but much of the arranging and programming will be handled by the publisher.

If you ego publish, you may be on your on.

A Note on Self Publishing

Finding a good literary agent to flip your book to publishing houses is not easy.

The good 1s are too busy to messiness with you.

The bad 1s will bear down you for their services.

The regulation is that you never pay a literary agent because he or she is going to acquire a cut of your royalties. Actually, because of rising cost, some ethical literary agents complaint for certain defined services.

Self publication is becoming more than common. The grounds a author like you may ego print are:

1. You don't necessitate any more than rejection steals to cover your sleeping room wall.

2. You would rather compose books than letters to publishers.

3. You don't cognize how to happen a literary agent and you don't desire to larn how to happen a literary agent.

4. You don't desire to wait three old age to acquire your book in print.

5. Self publication is very easy to make and the cost to print a novel using a print-on-demand publishing house can be as low as $100.00 of even free. A print-on-demand pressman can print your book in any measure from your PDF file. Your word processor will probably make the PDF data file for you. Also, if you utilize software system like Adobe PageMaker, etc., A PDF data data data file is easily created.

Lulu.com Volition Print Your Book at No Cost to You

Here is one land site where you can print your book free directly from your word processing file or PDF file, etc.: http://www.lulu.com/

Self publication companies can bear down high fees so you must watch out for your interest. Lulu.com is safe and easy and, as I said, free.

With print-on-demand you make not necessitate to begin with 1000 transcripts of your book. The books are printed one or more than at clip on order.

Editors

Self publishing houses may offer redaction services but some take a firm stand that you are the editor and you must do certain the grammar and spelling are right before you submit your book files. I published four novels and establish that I tended to overlook mistakes during perennial edits especially those inserted by my enchantment checker. That is, the enchantment checker overlooks or alterations a word. For that reason, you may desire to have got a professional editor redact your book.

You can happen such as an editor listed in Writers Digest Magazine or on the Internet. Just do certain you cognize up front exactly what the cost volition be and what the redact will entail. You probably don't desire an editor to rewrite your book changing the style from yours to his or hers. An redact for grammar and spelling mistakes should be sufficient.

Publicizing Your Book

With the above asides (to assist those just starting out), how make you publicise your self-published book?

If your book is nonfictional prose then you can easily place a market. If your book is Feeding Your Praying Mantis, you have got got restricted your audience to those who have captured a praying mantid and desire to feed it to maintain it alive as long as possible.

I would state that the size of your audience is zip, but allows take a expression with Google. I set feed a praying mantis in the hunt box and got 199,000 entries. If I set in the wrong spelling of praying (preying mantis), I got 221,000 entries. (In comparing when I set Taylor Mother Jones the Chop Writer in the hunt box, I got over 500,000 entries.)

As I look at the entries on eating a praying mantis, I see that a batch of folks have got them as pets. In the wild, a praying mantid mainly eats insects. One article states that babe praying mantises just love fruit flies. So I would state you make have got got a marketplace of folks who would love your book.

How make you attain this market?

I would believe that you would desire to put up a web page to flip your book.

You have to make up one's mind if the page is to concentrate on you, the author, or the book. I would put up a land land site on the praying mantid where I would have got free content on the praying mantid and a verbal description of my book.

Most of us concentrate on ourselves such as as my personal site shown at the end of this article (tjbooks.com). As I said, that may not be the best thing for your praying mantid book. You may desire to have got an writer web land site and a praying mantid website. To make this, you can simply travel to GoDaddy®.com and have got them give you a hand. They have got the best client service I've encountered and the cost of getting a sphere name and having them host it is easy and inexpensive. They also have got the software system system you necessitate to plan the site.

I utilize CoffeeCup® software to plan my sites. They make not complaint for their software system if you host with them. They also have got great client service. Their land site is: http://tinyurl.com/3ag4t8 You may be able to plan your web pages right from your word processor but I don't urge it. It sets in a batch of immaterial code.

If you do up one's mind you desire to force the book directly from a book land site which concentrates on your book, make certain the sphere name have keywords in it. For example, feedprayingmantis.com is not taken and you could register it. However, prayingmantis.com and praying-mantis.com are registered domains.

If you put up the land land site feedprayingmantis.com you would make a site with tons of free content on the praying mantis. Then you could publicize your book on the site. It could be made available by a simple nexus to Lulu.com if that is the manner you would desire to go. If you include an ISBN figure and terms barroom codification (on your book cover), you will be able to sell it on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble's site, etc., using simple links. You can sell your book directly to clients too if you have got them pay you for the book and transportation by PayPal.com Oregon by some other method.

The fact is you can ego print by putting your book into a PDF data file and uploading it to your site. Then using PayPal.com arsenic your payment method, the book can be downloaded to your client while you are sipping lemonade on the beach.

Once you are put up, you will necessitate to drive traffic to your site. Since you have got got a narrow marketplace you could reach some of the other land sites and have them associate to your site. In fact, you would merchandise links. That is why you desire tons of good content on your land land site so that other land sites will desire to have got their nexus on your site. Don't bury to submit your land site to the top 10 hunt engines to salvage time. The spiders that volition read your land site take their clip getting to yours. Brand certain you have got meta data files giving the name of your site, a verbal description of your site, and keywords. Go to one of my land sites and chink on Position on your browser then chink on Page Beginning or Source. You will see my beginning codification and my meta files.

Once you are ready to go, blog the Internet that you have got a new land site on the praying mantis. Then blog that you have got a new book out that states how to feed them. Write articles on the praying mantid and print them on the web. You could print them right here at http://www.ezinearticles.com You will be able to put your personal and concern land site golf course at the underside of each article. Whenever you compose a new article, blog the Internet that you have got done so.

To put up your blog, travel to blogspot.com Oregon other blog providers. My blog is tjbooks.blogspot.com

You should direct a fourth estate release to insect web pages and to any black and white mags that have got readers interested in the praying mantis. You would depict your land site and your book.

There should be no demand to pass money for promotion for a book such as as yours. Classified ads, however, in black and white mags with a very targeted audience can be profitable. You would have got to prove your advertisements for response and profit. Don't blow your money placing advertisements in newspapers or on the Internet.

I wrote respective western and investigator novels when I retired. I have got just listed four of them on mysteryloverscorner.com (http://www.sleuthedit.com/mlc.html). Dawn Dowdle runs this site. When Dawn have my inside information online, a enigma lover will be able to happen the books and purchase them from her site. The cost to make this is minimal. The point is that enigma readers congregate at her land site and purchase books. (This paragraph looks like a blazing advertisement for Dawn's site. But land sites like this tin aid you acquire exposure. I have got invited Dawn to go a author for http://www.ezinemagazines.com)

If you are creative, you can believe of many ways to advance your books. The narrower the market, the easier it is to promote. The broader your market, the more than competition and the harder it is to zero in on the buyers. Just because you have got your book listed on Amazon.com makes not intend it will sell. You have got to make the publicity yourself if you are not tied to a publishing house that advances for you.

There are many books on publicizing your book and there are many land sites on the Internet that give good ideas. You will necessitate to analyze up. Just watch for avaricious hands.

For our illustration on the praying mantis, when you acquire your land site up, you may desire to begin an ezine on the praying mantis. Then you can accumulate electronic mail computer addresses of people to whom you can sell by offering a price reduction or a voucher of some kind. You can also set a free PDF on your land site available lone to those who mark up for your ezine.

I've thought about merchandising my novels at fairs, etc. Iodine don't because my publishing house makes not give an adequate price reduction unless I purchase one hundred books. I told them that was fine, I wanted 25 of each. They said that was not how it worked. I would have got to purchase 100 of each. Who are they trying to kid? My physician habit allow me raise more than than a gallon of milk.

I will state this for my publisher. They allow folks read a few chapters of each of my books before they purchase them.

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copyright©2007 Toilet T. Jones, Ph.D. (Taylor Mother Jones the Chop Writer)