My Tips on Promoting Your Book

[GeraldRice]

This is still a new process for me. I'll update as I learn more and feel free to email me with what's worked for you. Here goes.

If you don't have a blog regarding your book, start one. Have your blog posts update to your Facebook and whatever other social media you're on. Also, make your website searchable on Google, Yahoo, etc. This is easy. Just go to their sites and type something like 'list website on Google'. It should give you a link where you can type in your website. You'll be listed near the bottom at first simply because that's how they roll until you get enough searches through them. Oh yeah, did I say this is free?

Look up every paper in your area. Find out who their entertainment reporter is and ask if they'd like to interview you. You can get rates on advertising but you'll probably find that it can get pretty expensive, but an interview is free.

Find websites that do link exchanges. You list their website and they list yours.

Give a copy or two to the library. Because that would be cool.

Find out if there are any stores...

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