On Book Marketing Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/category/on-book-marketing/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 20:48:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Why is Book Marketing So Damn Hard? https://booksbywomen.org/why-is-book-marketing-so-damn-hard/ https://booksbywomen.org/why-is-book-marketing-so-damn-hard/#respond Thu, 08 Feb 2024 09:23:30 +0000 https://booksbywomen.org/?p=47597 Why is Book Marketing So Damn Hard? I offer a marketing mastermind for writers, called 12 weeks to Book Launch Success. In this group program, I guide novelists and memoir writers to develop a successful launch plan for their book. (If this sounds interesting, more details at the end!) Before developing my program, I interviewed […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/why-is-book-marketing-so-damn-hard/feed/ 0 47597 Things I Wish I’d Known About Book Marketing https://booksbywomen.org/things-i-wish-id-known-about-book-marketing/ https://booksbywomen.org/things-i-wish-id-known-about-book-marketing/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2020 10:23:23 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=33492 Things I wish I’d known about book marketing: A few specific tips for the author who wants to sell books as well as write them!  (1) When people ask me how I found my agent, I tell them about Publishers Marketplace https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/. This is an enormous database that lists (nearly) every book deal, as well […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/how-i-made-dreaded-book-marketing-fun/feed/ 2 32204 Second Chances https://booksbywomen.org/second-chances-by-by-anju-gattani/ https://booksbywomen.org/second-chances-by-by-anju-gattani/#comments Mon, 17 Feb 2020 06:00:10 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=29610 By Anju Gattani They say cats have nine lives but life doesn’t offer a second chance, at least not in the world of publishing. One book gets one release date, your baby’s out in the world and there’s no turning back.  Now, what if I told you that’s not true. Would you believe me?  What […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/second-chances-by-by-anju-gattani/feed/ 2 29610 How To Sell Books: My Marketing Journey https://booksbywomen.org/how-to-sell-books-my-marketing-journey-by-whitney-dineen/ https://booksbywomen.org/how-to-sell-books-my-marketing-journey-by-whitney-dineen/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:59:40 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=24946 I thought my romcom writing career would last forever. I didn’t make much money on my first book, She Sins at Midnight, during its debut year. But I knew going in that would probably be the case. Sales wouldn’t go gangbusters until my second book, The Reinvention of Mimi Finnegan. Which is exactly what happened. […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/how-to-sell-books-my-marketing-journey-by-whitney-dineen/feed/ 10 24946 You’ve Got To Have Friends: My Haphazard and Incredibly Lucky Innovations in Book Marketing https://booksbywomen.org/youve-got-to-have-friends-my-haphazard-and-incredibly-lucky-innovations-in-book-marketing/ https://booksbywomen.org/youve-got-to-have-friends-my-haphazard-and-incredibly-lucky-innovations-in-book-marketing/#respond Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:13:35 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=21669 With so many books on the market, not to mention TV, films, the Internet and dozens of many other distractions clamoring for our collective attention, how does an author get her book to stand out? I don’t claim to be an expert, but as the release of my second book approaches, I think I have […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/youve-got-to-have-friends-my-haphazard-and-incredibly-lucky-innovations-in-book-marketing/feed/ 0 21669 Social Media: To Share Or Not To Share? https://booksbywomen.org/social-media-to-share-or-not-to-share/ https://booksbywomen.org/social-media-to-share-or-not-to-share/#comments Tue, 04 Jul 2017 07:20:30 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=19710 In this golden age of social media, I still find it a bit of a novelty that I can tweet my favourite author.  Even more so on the occasions when they tweet me back! Having this kind of direct access to an author would have been unimaginable just 20 years ago.  Back in the old […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/social-media-to-share-or-not-to-share/feed/ 14 19710 Covering Your Assets https://booksbywomen.org/covering-your-assets-by-em-muslin/ https://booksbywomen.org/covering-your-assets-by-em-muslin/#respond Fri, 26 May 2017 05:04:27 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=19217   When you browse around in a bookshop or on Amazon or Barnes & Noble or wherever – what is the first thing you look for when choosing your next book? The author’s name? The amount of stars it has from reviewers? The book’s description? Or is it the book cover? I admit to often […]

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