I’m jumping right into the middle of things. If I had blogged a year ago I would have spoken about my choice for createspace, title page, Library of Congress catalogue in publishing, ISBN’s etc. I still hope to blog about these things. However, I am in the middle of a different phase.
I would like to tell you about some great websites I am currently in love with. These websites understand you are trying to market a book, and they let you do so. In no particular order, I like goodreads.com. You can enter your book, do a book give-away and answer author interview questions. People are able to review your book. You can link in your blog and other websites.
I also like thebookmarketingnetwork.com. Same story – you can do an author profile, link your blog, and I find the host, John Kremer to be chock full of information.
I also like bookgoodies.com – This site also gives you a thorough interview and lets you link numerous sites.
Big thank you to Jason Matthews ebooksuccess4free.wordpress.com and his Udemy course for Amazon including affiliates program, author central (for each country), linking in blog, etc. – incredibly, incredibly informative!!!!
Another website is iauthor.uk.com – where you can add all sorts of information and create an “advert” which apparently is the UK version of an “ad”.
I recently also discovered awesomegang.com where you can also fill out an extensive interview and link your websites. Also, their sister site, bookreadermagazine.com does the same. Many thanks!!
I’d like to give a shout out for a potential up and comer – spillbooks.com – not sure there is a huge audience there (yet) but Josh Okello is being proactive and actually contacted me for information so he could post my book and information. Check it out!
Also a big thank you to Becky at Franticmommy.com – as women – we have all been there. I contacted her and sent her a book and she reviewed it on her website, so wow, thanks!!!
It is almost too easy to get caught up in searching for great websites. Sometimes you find a gem, and other times you discover you have spent hours online with no benefit. Try to limit yourself to a certain amount of time searching in the dark and keep focused on what you are trying to accomplish for the day. Happy searching everyone!