What you must have to market your book successfully.

Enthusiasm for what you’ve written.

The knowledge that you have done your best.

Belief that what you have written is good.

Commitment and determination.

Understanding that only very rarely as authorship goes will readers beat a path to your door to buy your book.

Determination to do everything in your power to promote your book.

Above all write with passion.

Every writer knows the feeling. You have something to say, facts to impart or a story to tell. You know you can do it and so you get started.
Some people never get further than that.

But you have. Not only have you finished it, you want people to read it.
Believe me, writing your book is the easy part. Marketing your book is a different matter.

Computers have meant that many more people are writing. Publishers and agents are inundated with mss from hopefuls. Some work is so badly presented that it is returned to sender unread – provided they enclosed return postage. Work presented through an agent stand a better chance of being read, but finding an agent is something of a problem until you have some published work under your belt.

But there is light at then end of this tunnel of gloom.

Technology has made it much easier and cheaper to self-publish.
So you’ve got your books – not too many, I hope. Most of the short run printers will offer you advice about follow-up runs, etc. Many of them offer marketing facilities but don’t feel you can rely completely on their services. You must play your part too.

Nobody will buy a book they don’t know about.

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