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We've been looking for ways to assist authors in getting some visibility for newly-published and overlooked books. These books typically don't have any reviews yet, or few reviews... and thus they don't qualify for many of the promotional opportunities out there.
So, twice a week (on Tuesdays and Fridays at 4pm Pacific), we're going to replace our usual 'Spotlight Post' with a 'Book Discovery Day' post. This post will contain a simple table (see graphic below) with newly-published or overlooked books. The table will be limited to 16 books or fewer.
Starting today, you can submit your book here:
http://kboards.com/book-discovery-promo
The only requirements we'll make for the book submissions are:
(a) no erotica;
(b) a family-friendly cover; and
(c) the book has fewer than ten reviews on Amazon *or* an Amazon ranking of higher than 100,000.
We've set a price for this of $15/book. For those of you who may be interested, I would also offer a couple of tips:
- Having a really good cover matters. Get it professionally done if you can... it truly does make a difference when trying to attract new readers!
- Take a look at your blurb and see if it could use some tightening up. Note that, due to space restrictions in our posted table, only the first 500 characters of the book's description are included.
I would appreciate your feedback on this and how we can make it as effective as possible for authors, and for readers. Thanks!
-Harvey
So, twice a week (on Tuesdays and Fridays at 4pm Pacific), we're going to replace our usual 'Spotlight Post' with a 'Book Discovery Day' post. This post will contain a simple table (see graphic below) with newly-published or overlooked books. The table will be limited to 16 books or fewer.
Starting today, you can submit your book here:
http://kboards.com/book-discovery-promo
The only requirements we'll make for the book submissions are:
(a) no erotica;
(b) a family-friendly cover; and
(c) the book has fewer than ten reviews on Amazon *or* an Amazon ranking of higher than 100,000.
We've set a price for this of $15/book. For those of you who may be interested, I would also offer a couple of tips:
- Having a really good cover matters. Get it professionally done if you can... it truly does make a difference when trying to attract new readers!
- Take a look at your blurb and see if it could use some tightening up. Note that, due to space restrictions in our posted table, only the first 500 characters of the book's description are included.
I would appreciate your feedback on this and how we can make it as effective as possible for authors, and for readers. Thanks!
-Harvey
