Today I finally released my new novel Love Without a Limit for pre-order through
KDP. Now this is a test because I have never set a book up for pre-sale on KDP,
but so far so good. I figure this way I can gage how well the book will do when
it finally releases in a couple of weeks. The funny thing is with KDP it doesn’t
seem to allow you to pre-sale the print copy. I don’t know if that is going to
help or hurt, but I believe it will be okay.
So, what have I learned as a new author on how to release a
new book. It’s simple, tell as many people as you can before you release the
book. You can’t expect to not mention your book at all then on release day hear
crickets because no one knew you were writing a book. I learned that the hard
way when I was with a less than perfect publisher a couple years ago. Still
though, it’s not just telling people about your book it’s about building relationships
with people who you want to be an avid reader of your work.
Some of the things I will be doing for the next couple of
weeks is setting up ads, promos, and interviews with industry friends and colleagues
that will help build sales of my book. I already had my marketing and promotion
plan drawn up months in advance so all I have to do now is contact the parties
with the link and get to going. Writing the book was a hard but marketing and promotion
will be even harder because I am an introvert naturally. However, if I want to
be successful in my writing career, I have to bust the bubble and get out there
amongst them.
If you are reading this, I just want to say thank you for
your support thus far. If you would please one-click my new release available
for pre-order now and wide December 20, 2018.
