French Resistance and Roman Fiction
UK
A World War 2 Trilogy
By FRED NATH (Novelist and Neurosurgeon)
Sell your book:
So a small publisher has accepted your book, you've signed the contract and you're drunk with euphoria!
Trouble is: now the work starts.
You have to do your bit to help sell your work. Unless you've been signed by a big publisher or you have large breasts and long shapely legs, you will have to market yourself as well as write!
The most effective sales techniques on Amazon are:
Price: Kindle prices above $4 or £3 sell less.
Reviews: Every time The Cyclist gets a one or two star rating the sales fall. Currently down now to about 50/day. If you are daft enough to get friends to leave reviews, unless they really have read the book, it's obvious. Only encourage genuine reviews.
Like any other writer, I hate the self-publicising aspect - it has a 'yuk' factor even greater than Conservative politics. I didn't write so as to spend time doing marketing but it's a fact, small presses don't have the money to take out whole page spreads in national newspapers or have posters about your book on the tube.
Someone once said, 'life is like a sewer; what you get out of it depends on what you put into it'.
Writing a book is only the start and you'll have to work to get it sold!
Oh, and no one said it was an easy ride!
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