A Few Tips on Becoming a Real Author

Congratulations!

Maybe you just signed your first book contract. Maybe you self-published a book. Or maybe you’ve even had a book out there for a little while and not much is happening with it. Whatever the case, there are some basic steps you can take to up your chances of getting your book into readers’ hands.

Do you have an author‘s page on GoodReads? Do you have a video trailer? APEX does great work. You can check mine out as an example. And don’t stop with GoodReads. You can get an amazon author’s page, too. Linked-in is great. Try and get yourself on others’ blogs. Do interviews. Offer your book for free maybe for a week with a coupon code on smashwords. Comment on authors’ blogs who have books similar to your own. Mainly just get your name out there as much as you can.

I know I had no idea of the amount of energy I needed to expend on marketing my books AND myself. I started a blog and put up a website where people could buy my books free of shipping. I’ve done radio shows and now feel fairly comfortable with that, especially if the interviewer knows what they’re doing.

You could also look up some good author blogs and newsletters and subscribe. I continually take in new information on how best to get well-known. I have a lot of author friends all over the world through social networking.

That’s about all I can think of for now, but feel free to ask me anything that I can help you with. I love helping new authors.

Happy Writing!

Free E-Books! It’s Read an E-book Week!

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That’s right. I’m giving away my books as a token of my esteem to my blog readers and anyone else who comes across this offer until March 12th, 2011. You can read about a team of metaphysical scientists trying to find the answers to 2012 in Quantum Earth; you can find out what Meg does when she finds out the small town she’s visiting has a terrifying curse on it in Native Vengeance; and you can find a new kind of vampire hitting the scene in Earthwalker- Earth Can Be Hell for a Vampire.

All three of these books are completely free until midnight on the 12th of this month for Read An E-book Week.

Here’s what you do:

Go to:            https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/authorjulie

There you will find my books on Smashwords. Click on the one(s) you want and enter the secret code displayed (RE100), and there you are! Simple as that to get some pretty interesting and exciting reading material. Enjoy!

Great Free Book Offer

Hey,

Hope you are doing well. I have got a great surprise for this thanksgiving for you. I have got a great book to share with you.

Attached to the email is the link where you can watch the book trailer of the book I am going to share with you.

Please check out the book trailer and let me know your interest in reading it. If you are interested let me know so I can give you the coupon code to get this FREE E-book.

In return, I would love that you write a review with a star rating for this book on Amazon and other sites.

Link to the book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ET7oeiCQsg

 

Looking forward to hear from you.

 

Best Regards,

M I A N—–No Time for Love

Author (Published Worldwide in English & Russian)

Online English Language Trainer

Website: www.mianmohsinzia.tk

Blog: www.mianmohsinzia.blogspot.com

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