The A-Zs of book marketing covering the good, the bad, and the surprising! • Why promotion really is your problem even if you have a publisher • What is the goal of all marketing and promotion? • Why negative reviews don’t matter and why you should welcome them! • How to find your readers • Why you don’t want to sell your first manuscript • What is branding and why should you do it? • Specific things you can do to promote your books • Should you have a catchy tagline? Hire a private publicist? Go on a blog tour? • Why you don’t want to give away a Kindle (or a $100 Amazon gift certificate) • What you can do to promote your books, including outside-the-box techniques • What exactly is a marketing plan and why do you need one? • What are the three most important steps to book promotion? • The biggest secret of all time when it comes to book promotion!
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Valerie Bowman is an award-winning author who writes Regency-set historical romance novels aka Racy Regency Romps! Valerie’s debut novel was published in 2012. Since then, her books have received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, and Kirkus. She’s been an RT Reviewers’ Choice nominee for Best First Historical Romance and Best Historical Romance Love and Laughter. Two of her books have been nominated for the Kirkus Prize for fiction. Valerie grew up in Illinois with six sisters (she’s number seven) and a huge supply of historical romance novels. After a cold and snowy stint earning a degree in English Language and Literature with a minor in history at Smith College, she moved to Florida the first chance she got. Valerie now lives in Jacksonville with her family including her rascally dogs. When she’s not writing, she keeps busy reading, traveling, or vacillating between watching crazy reality TV and PBS. Visit Valerie on the web at www.ValerieBowmanBooks.com and sign-up for her newsletter at: https://valeriebowmanbooks.com/newsle... Be sure to follow Valerie Bookbub for the latest on sales https://www.bookbub.com/authors/valer...
