I am very glad to welcome Madi Preda to Fiction Favorites. Madi is the author of the book How to Promote and Market Your Book, as well as principal of Author’s PR . She has managed the campaigns of over fifty books this year alone. Here’s Madi.

The most powerful way to market your book

Word of mouth is the best way to amplify your efforts and create interest about your work and it’s free.

All you need for word of mouth marketing is a good book, worthy of sharing, and a strategy to get it into the hands of the right people who will spread the word for you. It sounds simple but is not that easy and requires some time, efforts, and determination.

The best time to design to draw your marketing plan is before you  finished writing your book; draw your audience as you write your book by creating buzz, pos excerpts and generate engagement by asking what one of the characters should do next, guess who is the bad guy or anything else you can think of. When it’s launching time, you’ll already have an audience waiting.

The next step is to get your work noticed and shared by as many people you can get, offer free copies for reviews, write guest posts sharing your writing experience and do interviews.

Focus more on letting people know about your book rather than selling.

There is not a secret that not every strategy will work for every author, so choose what makes sense, adapt to your specific work, and try to come up with some of your own marketing ideas.

Promote and Market

1. Create a marketing plan and get creative.
2. Tell your author story and find a hook to keep your audience interested.
3. Build and develop your email list.
4. Don’t write only about the book itself but link your articles to trending topics related to your book topic..
5. If it is possible time the announcement of your new book with an important news event, trade show, movie, a humanitarian campaign, a sports competition.
6. Tempt your readers with more news about your next book if it is part of a series; you can insert a chapter, a new character description or a new setting at the end of the current book to make the reader follow you.
7. Add contact author’s details at the end of each of your books and the titles of previously published books.
8. Promote other authors by having them as guests on your blog, interview them or organize a common event such as the (your genre) weekly debate – on the topic of your book or simply about the writing process of that genre.
9. Schedule social media. Put every day in your author schedule at least 15 minutes for promotion.(a post on
10. Nobody can reinvent the wheel, but authors have a huge imagination so surely they will find original ideas and new avenues to bring their work in front of readers.

About the author: , publicizing more than 50 books within a year of launching her first campaign. Her mission is helping authors to gain more exposure and media coverage through her online marketing campaigns. As a result of her experience she decided to write a practical guide for authors, or aspiring writers, in marketing, explaining step by step how to make a book successful from the manuscript stage to wholesale distribution.

Links to order the book:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/440234

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-promote-and-market-your-book-madi-preda/1119611626?ean=2940045962346

http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/How-To-Promote-Market-Your/book-0Q6ajrTX3EeMEfGEnozggw/page1.html?s=D1Gdi6tO8EOq8iRIl_DIfQ&r=1

Author’s website: http://authorspr.tripod.com

Author’s Blog    : http://authorspromotion.wordpress.com

Twitter Handle : @AUTHORSPR

Facebook           : https://www.facebook.com/bookspromotion