Marketing Your Book

So you've completed your book. It's written, edited and published! It's ready to get read. This is the moment you've been waiting for. So now what?

New authors think that once you've done the hard part - published your book - that now you get to sit back and collect royalty checks. Unfortunately, publishers expect authors - now more then ever - to get out there with a salesperson hat and sell the book.

The advent of the internet has made this easier. Writing communities provide authors with opportunities to market their book. In fact, as pointed out in this website, writing communities now help authors from the start - writing a book - to the final product - marketing the book.

So being part of a writing community early into the writing process can make a big difference not just with the writing of the book but with the selling of it as well. Yes, you can enter a poetry contest on a writing community. Yes, you can get feedback for your writing. But you can also sell your book to the readers that helped you along the way. So meeting people, meeting readers, during the book writing process is a big part of the way forward. And, heck, maybe you will win a poetry contest too!

Indeed, marketing is a big part of an authors job now. You can still collect royalty checks but you'll be busy the rest of the week marketing your book.