This Marketing Lark

by David Batten-Hill
11th April 2012

So, sales are trickling - 15 Kindle editions and one paperback in the last month or so. I've been Twittering and Squidooing, and my two websites are fully up and running. Five 5-star reviews so far and I've sent a copy to the area library, which act ties in with a possible mention on local radio.

It's a bit frustrating, really. I've been trying to contact film industry folk, with no response apart from "Get an agent". So I'm wondering what to do next. I have Kindle et al versions, an adobe Digital Editions version and print-on-demand paperbacks available in the UK and US.

Any thoughts on how to outstrip the competition? Thanks.

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More than one book? Four or five at least, I reckon.

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And having taken a quick look at your book, that advice definitely applies. You need to be selling that in York. Do they have a literary festival this summer? Definitely hit the libraries and seek out independent bookstores who might support you. Good luck.

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I met a very elderly writer who had had his first two books published through a publisher and then had chosen to self-publish everything else. He said his success was always in the title. His best selling self-published book was called something like Cricket Widows and he sold it in cricket pavillions up and down the country. They would be on the bar when the women came in to order a drink and they pay for it with their gin and tonic as something to read while they waited for their husbands.

The virtual thing is all very well, but if your title lends itself to being sold somewhere in the real world, take advantage of that.

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