Book Review: Promote Your Book

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Book Review:

Promote Your Book:

Over 250 Proven, Low-Cost Tips and

Techniques for the Enterprising Author

By Patricia Fry

Reviewed By

Lazette Gifford

Copyright © 2011, Lazette Gifford, All Rights Reserved

 

 
 

Promote Your Book: Over 250 Proven, Low-Cost Tips and Techniques for the Enterprising Author

Patricia Fry

ISBN-13: 978-1581158571

Available in Print and Kindle at http://amzn.to/oe56Ia

 

From the author:

 

“Promote Your Book” is designed to teach new and struggling authors how to approach the daunting task of promoting their books. It features clear and plentiful ideas, tips, resources and fascinating anecdotes to help authors successfully develop and work their own marketing plans.

 

This book is an excellent checklist of possible marketing ideas for your book releases. While it doesn't go into detail, it does point you in the right direction and lets you create the type of promotion which will work best in your circumstances. The book is readable and easy to implement, and by the very act of not going into excessive detail on how to do each steps, she leaves the way open for writers to use their imaginations and adapt to what suits them best. She is a guide, pointing you to the right path. It's up to you to take it and find where it will lead.

 

While much of Promote Your Book is aimed at print and traditionally published works, but I easily found enough material for ebook and indie authors to keep those authors busy as well. The work is divided into several sections and each contains short sub-sections filled with ideas. I seriously doubt anyone could do all or even most of these tips for any single book, but it was actually fun to go through the chapters and see which ones might work best in certain circumstances. I am someone who writes both fiction and nonfiction, and who has both print and ebook, as well as traditionally published and Indie published works, and I found helpful hints that would work for everything I've had published.

 

The book starts with Book Promoting Basics and moves on to What to do before Your Book is a Book, both of which will start you down the right path. Even if you already have books out, these first two chapters can give you excellent ideas of things to do for your next release or to adapt for the one out now.

 

Many, if not all of the items listed will be familiar to authors. The joy of this book is finding the marketing ideas organized into related sets in the 24 chapters, making them easier to implement.

 

One of my favorite chapters is Promote Your Book Without Changing Your Lifestyle which included ten easy things to draw attention to your work. Promote Locally provides a list of promotions many author will have little trouble completing.

 

Other chapters include items that will not only take more time and effort but sometimes a bit of money as well. The ideas are suited to many lifestyles as well as different types of books, and Patricia Fry suggests you divide your promotion ideas into an A(easy), B(hard) and C (difficult) -- with the ideas listed by how you feel about each item, not what someone else might find easy, hard or difficult. With over 250 tips and techniques to look over in one spot, you'll be able to put together

 

Do these things work? I can tell you that some of them plainly do for generating notice. Patricia Fry has used some of her own suggestions. She has written articles for Vision in the past, and she contacted me to find out if we would be interested in reviewing the book. Knowing her name from previous articles (Chapter Fifteen, Use Your Writing Skills) made me open to reviewing the book when she contacted me (Chapter Nine, Solicit Book Reviews).

 

This is a book that will provide a plethora of marketing ideas for years to come.

 

Promote Your Book: Over 250 Proven, Low-Cost Tips and Techniques for the Enterprising Author

Patricia Fry

ISBN-13: 978-1581158571

Available in Print and Kindle a thttp://amzn.to/oe56Ia