If you're starting out as an author you need exposure but it's hard to find at an affordable price. The Amazon store is now so packed with books that at the recent London Book Fair all the talk was of the "discoverability" problem - how do people find your books,
Reviews are obviously one way but a Kirkus Review costs $425 and frankly most of them are not very good. As an author myself but with a background in book and music marketing, a few months ago I started to work on ways of dealing with this. Obviously I wanted to promote my books but to do that I needed to provide something that would be useful to other authors too.
The outcome is we have created something which I believe can act as a marketing toolbox for authors to promote their work. It's designed to be affordable - a book page complete with cover shot and description starts at $10 and you will only pay $30 for a short review. Even a full review is affordable at $75.
It's very easy to set up - all you do is complete a form, pay by PayPal and you're good to go.
I hope you try it and I hope you like it. I really hope we can help you sell a lot of books
The web address for the $10 book page promo is at
http://www.bookmarq.net/add-book-page-book-page-plus-review/
Obviously there's a lot more to see on the website as well.
Meantime I hope you like the cartoon (below) from 20px about what it is like to be an author on the internet these days.
Edited to shrink image. Thanks for understanding. --Betsy
Reviews are obviously one way but a Kirkus Review costs $425 and frankly most of them are not very good. As an author myself but with a background in book and music marketing, a few months ago I started to work on ways of dealing with this. Obviously I wanted to promote my books but to do that I needed to provide something that would be useful to other authors too.
The outcome is we have created something which I believe can act as a marketing toolbox for authors to promote their work. It's designed to be affordable - a book page complete with cover shot and description starts at $10 and you will only pay $30 for a short review. Even a full review is affordable at $75.
It's very easy to set up - all you do is complete a form, pay by PayPal and you're good to go.
I hope you try it and I hope you like it. I really hope we can help you sell a lot of books
The web address for the $10 book page promo is at
http://www.bookmarq.net/add-book-page-book-page-plus-review/
Obviously there's a lot more to see on the website as well.
Meantime I hope you like the cartoon (below) from 20px about what it is like to be an author on the internet these days.
Edited to shrink image. Thanks for understanding. --Betsy