13 Ideas For Favorite Author Book Promotion

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Janet Chester Bly

Want suggestions for how to do book promotion for your favorite authors?

You can make a difference! Here’s 13 things you can do for your own personal favorite author book promotion campaign … pick one or more:

1) Tell a friend what you liked about his or her work. Word-of-mouth book promotion is the best!

2) Recommend the book to your local bookseller(s) or librarian.

3) Give a copy of the book to a public, church, or prison library.

4) Pass the word about their website or blog. Here’s ours – http://BlyBooks.com or “On A Western Trail” blog at http://BlyBooks.blogspot.com

5) For your friends who do social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc., tell them they can become friends and followers of their favorite authors – share  the links.

6) Give a book by this author as a gift to a family member, friend, or co-worker. Include a rave review of your own.

7) Do a video review and post it on YouTube or other video sharing website.

8) Tell some book club members about the book(s) or organize a group of friends to read and discuss the book(s) together.

9) If you’re a speaker or do seminars, offer the books for sale on your display table or include flyers about the books.

10) If you have a website or blog of your own, set up links from your site to your favorite author’s site.

11) Include a feature or interview on your blog about the book(s) or about the author.

12) Write a review for www.Amazon.com or other online bookstore.

13) Email a photo of yourself with the book(s) to your favorite author. If you send one to Bly Books, we’ll feature it at “On A Western Trail” blog … attach it to email and send to janet(at)blybooks(dot)com.

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Miralee Ferrell also posted these book promotion ideas on her blog. Check it out here: http://miraleesdesk.blogspot.com/2013/04/13-ideas-for-favorite-author-book.html

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What special way not listed here have you done book promotion for your favorite writer(s)?