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    Book Marketing for the First-Time Author
    Book Marketing for the First-Time Author
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    Book Marketing for the First-Time Author

    By MK Williams

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    You’ve written the best book ever and now everyone will be racing to read it. Or, that was the plan.
    As a first-time author, you walk a fine line between planning for and marketing your book for success and the crushing reality of low sales. Book Marketing for the First-Time Author breaks down the most important elements that you need to market your book. Master the fundamentals covered here to set your book up for success.
    M.K. Williams has compiled 5 plus years of experience writing, publishing, and creating successful marketing campaigns for a multitude of books. Before you get excited about the opportunities that will present themselves to you, read this book. Online gurus will tell you that they wrote a book, sent a notice to their email list, and realized 6 figure royalties overnight. They skipped a few steps in their story.
    First-time authors have a lot of details to manage to promote their books; this book simplifies the process and helps you weed through all the noise to make sure the marketing essentials are covered.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMK Williams
    Release dateMar 25, 2020
    ISBN9781952084010
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    MK Williams

    MK Williams is an Indiana-born, Philadelphia-raised, Florida-transplant working and living beneath the sunny, and often rainy, skies of Tampa. As a writer Williams has penned three novels, the first to be published being Nailbiters, as well as many short stories. Williams' writing influences include a lifetime of watching suspenseful mysteries and action movies and reading Stephen King, Ian McEwan and J.K. Rowling. For more information on the premiere novel, Nailbiters, and forthcoming novels and collections please visit: https://1mkwilliams.com/

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      Book Marketing for the First-Time Author - MK Williams

      An Author Your Ambition Book

      by M.K. Williams

      Copyright © 2020 MK Williams Publishing, LLC

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. The use of any of my works in AI learning or NFT is prohibited. For permission requests, write to the publisher, addressed Attention: Permissions Coordinator, at the address below.

      ISBN: 978-1-952084-01-0 (eBook)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2020900863

      All content reflects our opinion at a given time and can change as time progresses. All information should be taken as an opinion and should not be misconstrued for professional or legal advice. The contents of this book are informational in nature and are not legal or tax advice, and the authors and publishers are not engaged in the provision of legal, tax, or any other advice.

      Links included in this eBook might be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that I provide I may receive a small commission. There is no additional charge to you, but it can help me continue to create and put out more content. Thank you for supporting my work so I can continue to provide you with helpful content!

      Printed by MK Williams Publishing, LLC in the United States of America.

      First printing edition 2020.

      [email protected]

      www.authoryourambition.com

      Works by M.K. Williams

      Fiction

      The Project Collusion Series

      Nailbiters

      Architects

      The Feminina Series

      The Infinite-Infinite

      The Alpha-Nina

      Other Fiction

      The Games You Cannot Win

      Escaping Avila Chase

      Enemies of Peace

      Non-Fiction

      Self-Publishing for the First-Time Author

      Book Marketing for the First-Time Author

      How to Write Your First Novel: A Guide for Aspiring Fiction Authors

      Going Wide: Self-Publishing Your Books Outside The Amazon Ecosystem

      Author Your Ambition: The Complete Self-Publishing Workbook for First-Time Authors

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 – Cover Design

      Chapter 2 – Marketing in and on the Book

      Chapter 3 – Your Author Platform

      Chapter 4 – Build your Reviews Early

      Chapter 5 – Where the Readers are

      Chapter 6 – Advertising

      Chapter 7 – Continuous Marketing Efforts

      Chapter 8 – Building a Readership

      Conclusion

      Bibliography

      Resources

      Dedication:

      To all the aspiring authors who dream, plan, write, and work hard to make it a reality.

      Introduction

      My Story

      I spent quite a bit of time worrying when my first self-published novel, Nailbiters, was released into the world. Not about practical things. No. My head was in the clouds. Because certainly, the book was going to catch steam and become a best-seller overnight. It was a riveting story with amazing twists. The kind that people love. I worried that instant success would pose a threat to my work-life balance. How could I still maintain my great day-job if I was flying off to New York to appear on the Today Show to talk about my meteoric rise? How could I make sure to get enough time with my husband if I was going to have it written into a contract that if the film rights were sold that I had to be on set to ensure continuity?

      These were the things I was worried about. It’s almost comical when I reflect on it. I had done my research and I knew the obstacles in front of me, and still, I worried about the most ludicrous things. None of those worries were founded. No viral hit. No big talk shows. No on-set time required.

      I’m glad that I did dream big though. What author doesn’t picture themselves realizing these success markers? But just writing a great story isn’t enough. Authors have to craft entire worlds, write perfect dialog, and they have to market their books.

      Your Story

      This book was marketed to you. Some way, somehow, you heard about it from a friend, you saw it online, you clicked on an ad, or liked a social media post. You had to hear about this book and then decide to read it. Think about how you've discovered books in the past. They were all marketed to you. Each of those authors (or their support teams) had to find a way to get their book in front of you.

      Not all authors will fit this description, but many that I know do: we’re shy, introverts who prefer the characters in our heads to people in real life. We’re not the pushy sales type. How are we supposed to take a life-long aversion to putting ourselves out there and start selling people on our book? The first step is to realize that your mindset needs to shift. Your book is no longer your precious book baby, it is no longer just your art and expression in printed word. It has tremendous value to your reader, whether it is informational or entertaining. You need to focus on what the book will provide the person who reads it.

      Just like writing the book itself, this step won’t be easy, but it is necessary. What works for me may not work for you. And good grief, if you have a strategy that works, please share it with me! All the authors that I know are still searching for the elusive winning formula. And this formula is different for each genre and sub-genre.

      As I detail for you the things that will and won’t matter, the things that have and haven’t worked, my goal is for you to find something that will resonate with you. Over the years, my writing has evolved, as has my marketing strategy for my books. Yours will too. Feel free to come back to this book time and time again to refresh on some concepts that can help as your book catalog grows.

      I will walk you through the same thought process that I use to make sure every element of the book is optimized to help it sell. I look at the exterior and interior of the book before I work on the marketing and advertising strategy; the layout of this book follows that method. We’ll start with the essentials (which also happens to be the items that you have the most control over): cover design and book descriptions. Then we will create your digital author platform, generate early buzz around the book, and secure rave reviews. Our last stop will be paid advertising. It is last for several reasons; most importantly, because if you don’t do the first items right, you won’t likely see success with ads.

      This framework will help you as you make your to-do lists and get your books out to avid readers who constantly demand more!

      Happy marketing!

      Chapter 1 - Cover Design

      Your first and most notable marketing asset is your book cover. This is the first element of your book marketing strategy. You may have heard about email lists or paid ads. Those are important too, and we will cover them later in this book. But the first thing anyone will see about your book, whether you are promoting it to your subscribers, your social media followers, or in an ad, is the cover.

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