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A recent poster here asked about publicity for their self published work. Unfortunately that seemed to be the extent of their interested in the forum for the moment.
Since one thing I personally have confronted is this road block in self publishing i think it's a great question to ask.
And if anyone has some answers that would be even better.
I for one have done a lot on the web- twitter, tumblr, facebook, and my own personal website and a blog.
I have not yet tried advertising on the web and would be interested in knowing of good sites that might have ad space available and also an audience that would appreciate the type of writing.
I've heard that conventions are great places to meet potential readers and get some visibility but have not done this and it might be interesting if anyone has some experiences to relate on that.
I've done some limited advertisement in book convention cataloges that were to be distributed throughout one year at various events. And of course there are magazines such as Analog -I was surprised to find three month coverage in a fair slot for around 1000 dollars US. Neither of those has yeilded any visible result.
Most effective measurable thing I've done is book givaways and then- when they can correspond- I have evidence that if I do a book review of a popular or at least new book I can see a jump in my own givaway (if I'm doing the give away at that time.) All of this is helping to build a presence and building-that-is part of the self promotion that is necessary to selling self published books.
Another issue that was raised in another area was having a forum for self publishing for self published authors to compare experiences and help each other understand the process which is also a great Idea but could just as easily be handled here with all other publishing questions; so if anyone has something to share that would be great.
Since one thing I personally have confronted is this road block in self publishing i think it's a great question to ask.
And if anyone has some answers that would be even better.
I for one have done a lot on the web- twitter, tumblr, facebook, and my own personal website and a blog.
I have not yet tried advertising on the web and would be interested in knowing of good sites that might have ad space available and also an audience that would appreciate the type of writing.
I've heard that conventions are great places to meet potential readers and get some visibility but have not done this and it might be interesting if anyone has some experiences to relate on that.
I've done some limited advertisement in book convention cataloges that were to be distributed throughout one year at various events. And of course there are magazines such as Analog -I was surprised to find three month coverage in a fair slot for around 1000 dollars US. Neither of those has yeilded any visible result.
Most effective measurable thing I've done is book givaways and then- when they can correspond- I have evidence that if I do a book review of a popular or at least new book I can see a jump in my own givaway (if I'm doing the give away at that time.) All of this is helping to build a presence and building-that-is part of the self promotion that is necessary to selling self published books.
Another issue that was raised in another area was having a forum for self publishing for self published authors to compare experiences and help each other understand the process which is also a great Idea but could just as easily be handled here with all other publishing questions; so if anyone has something to share that would be great.