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How To Promote

Looking for book promotion tips? These posts offer advice, tools, and tricks to help with your book marketing and book selling.

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Your Author Website Must Have…

For everything you're told you have to do as an independent author publishing and promoting a book, I'd argue there are only two absolute, universal musts: you must get a professional edit and you must have your own author website.
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How to Promote a Young Adult Novel on Social Media

If you’re promoting a Young Adult novel, these links and pages will get you connecting with online groups and forums likely to embrace your title.

Pinterest Tips for Writers

Never heard of Pinterest? Don't feel bad; most folks haven't yet. But the social network that allows users to post interesting links and images to a virtual pinboard is growing quickly, and it can...
how to negotiate

How To Negotiate Large-quantity, Non-returnable Sales

Corporate buyers do not want to buy your books — they want to use your content to solve a business problem. With that awareness, what preparation must you consider before you can reach a deal that satisfies all parties?
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How to Use TikTok to Sell Books: 12 Practical Tips

Almost half of the American population uses TikTok, and plenty of indie authors have found a way to use TikTok to sell books.
book price

Why Does Your Book Price End In 99?

Whether illusory cost-savings or to thwart employee theft, the strange practice of ending product prices in “99” is a relic from the 1880s.
books as promotional products

Why Companies Should Use (Your) Books As Promotional Products

Books are tasteful, customizable, and convey a touch of class to a promotional effort — so why not pitch your books as promotional products to corporate buyers?

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