Going into my second book launch, I find myself going through some of the same steps as I did before my first. One thing I did really big last year was a blog tour. Seems most authors have a blog and are happy to share their platform. They get to take a break from coming…
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Max Headroom
Did you know the average person has 50,000 thoughts per day? Some researchers put that number as high as 70,000. That’s thoughts. Not words. Say, four or five or six words per thought. 250,000 words? Per day? String ‘em all together and you’d have a couple of books’ worth. Per day. Good book? Probably not….
Singing the Book Promotion Blues
With a new book coming out in June, I have had the pleasure—and the pain—of deciding what I need to do to get the word out. My decisions are similar to the ones anyone launching a book makes. Being realistic, there is only so much time and money, and never enough. There is also a limited…
An Experiment in Decreasing Book Launch Stress
People are going to read it. Not just friendly people who love you.
You’ve hoped all along that the reading masses will love and adore your book. Universal praise! Money! Fans! Helicopters!
Nope. Even the most successful of books have their share of haters. Trolls will read your book. Critics. Reviewers. Readers who don’t understand what you were trying to do and totally miss the point.
Or, worse, maybe nobody will read it. Maybe you’ll send your little book out into the world and it will drift, lonely and unloved, in a tiny little backwater somewhere far away from civilization.
New Book? Don’t Poop on The Party!
By Aaron Ritchey So I have a friend who didn’t do an initial book signing for his first book. He didn’t do any sort of book launch party, nothing like that. He just threw his book up on Amazon, did some online stuff, but didn’t really celebrate the fact that he had done something that…