Promoting Your Self-Published Book: An Independent Authors Guide To Marketing and Exposure

Marques Vickers' "Promoting Your Self-Published Book: An Independent Author's Guide To Marketing and Exposure" is a concise reference guide for authors to market their independently published paperbacks and electronic books. The book offers valuable tips to maximize the expanding sales capabilities of the Internet. This edition details important exposure strategies, existing and emerging sales opportunities and valuable promotional outlets. Nearly 300 useful reference websites are provided to enhance social media strategies, website design, revenue outlets, email marketing, soliciting book reviews and media coverage.

"Promoting Your Self-Published Book" stresses a current transformation supplanting the traditional publishing industry. Fresh and innovative creative and revenue opportunities are emerging for entrepreneurial savvy authors, writers, and journalists. The guide stresses the importance and urgency of cultivating a vibrant social media presence via active postings and participation with content, social networking and weblog websites. These activities supplement an author website with videos, feedback capabilities and resources to cultivate new and return buyers. The book stresses the importance of personalization and a writer's online articulation of their creative vision.

Practical advice and supplementary consulting sources are offered on every aspect of website design, effective promoting through media exposure, email marketing and the cultivation of a potential and existing client base to establish long-term sustainability.

Chapter #1: The Essential Economics of the Publishing Industry
Chapter #2: A Fresh Dependency and Integration of Social Media
Chapter #3: A Writer's Website
Chapter #4: Drawing Traffic To Your Social Media Pages and Website
Chapter #5: Soliciting Book Reviews
Chapter #6: Cultivating Media Exposure and Email Marketing
Chapter #7: Cultivating Revenue Streams

300 Valuable Internet Reference Websites