The Thrifty Author's Guide to Launching Your Book Without Losing Your Mind

by Martin, Gail Z.

• ISBN13: 9781935361060
• ISBN10: 1935361066
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-01
• Publisher: Comfort Pub Llc

Summary

Your book is written and published-now what? Promoting your book to readers, bookstores and the media is essential for success, and in today's competitive market, promotion is the job of the writer. Do you know how to make your book the one everyone is talking about?

Author Biography

Gail Z. Martin is a bestselling author and international speaker. In additions to the Thrifty Author's Guide series, she writes the bestselling Chronicles of the Necromancer fantasy adventure series (Solaris Books) and the upcoming Fallen Kings Cycle series (Orbit Books). As a marketing expert with over 25 years of experience, Gail has written for over 40 regional and national publications, and had her fiction and non-fiction included in anthologies. She speaks at both small business and genre fiction events, and consults with companies throughout North America.

Table of Contents

Marketing Is the Author's Responsibility

How an Author is a Book's Best Friend

The WIIFM Principle: For You, Your Readers and the Media

Reality Check: How Book Marketing Really Works

Real-Life Budgeting-Money, Time and Resources

Creating Your Breakthrough Book Marketing Plan

Countdown! - Six Months until Launch

Five Months until Launch

Four Months until Launch

Three Months until Launch

Two Months until Launch

One Month until Launch

LAUNCH!

Launch Plus 1 Month

Launch Plus 2 Months

Launch Plus 3 Months

Launch Plus 4 Months

Launch Plus 5 Months

Launch Plus 6 Months

Now What?

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