This is a new blogging category targeting other authors. I want to share my experience with the process of writing, editing, publishing online, and the dreadful subject of marketing. I say dreadful because if you ask anyone who has written fiction or non-fiction, published online, and even have print versions and audible, “What do you need and want?” Answer: How do I sell more books?

With the online author groups and chat rooms, they chew over all sorts of subjects about writing and publishing, but what they really want to say is BUY MY BOOK! And most of those platforms will not let them say that.

Well, I want to know more myself so I will share things that work as I come across them. However, today I was searching online for ideas. Here is a really dumb one: (I’m putting this post also in my category “Writer Rant.”)

5. Cultivate a Positive about Book Promotion

Think of book promotion as storytelling. The story you are telling is why you wrote your book, how it can help others, and how the world will benefit from your writing.

If you can develop a positive attitude about book promotion, people will pick up on it, and tune in immediately. Some writers resent the chore of marketing. Their attitude seems to be, “I’m a writer. Marketing is the publisher’s job. Promoting my own book shouldn’t be my responsibility.”

Unfortunately–unless you are Stephen King or Malcolm Gladwell–the publisher probably won’t have the budget to market your book. If you don’t promote your book, no one else will.

I laughed. Why would I have the attitude of, “Gee, I’ll never sell this book?”

But then I thought about it. It is a chore most writers hate. Am I right?

Love,

Lee

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