The writing field is going through one the darkest and unhappy times of its history. Too many competitors and too many published and self published books are obscuring good or excellent works maybe written at the cost of big, big endeavours. According to a recent report, in the U.S, over 40,000 books are published every year and only 10 percent of them get a good campaign of book promotion. Fortunately (or unfortunately), writers live throughout the world and the number of daily published books is increasing frightfully.
How is it possible to get a little of exposure with this high number of competitors? We are forced to admit that nowadays to get a good book promotion is very hard. However, if you believe to be a good author, you also should think to promote your book after writing it. In short: the second step for being noted and probably acclaimed like a novelist is: promote your book.
During this stage of your career, you must forget for a while to be a writer and remember only that you now are only a person who are seeking to promote your own book. Usually, both established and indie authors publish their works on Amazon and Goodreads! These biggest and famous platforms are fundamental to prove you are a writer! Unfortunately, every day, millions of authors and publishers releases thousands of books on these platforms.
The main outcome of this tide of releases is the full obscurity of many books. Publish on Goodreads and Amazon is the first step to start a campaign of book promotion, but which is the second one? Well: the second strategy is to seek professional services of book promotion. Around the world, there are many magazines, both paper and web, which offer book reviews and other services for book promotion. At this stage of our post, you will surely be thinking: Is a book review a service of book promotion?
The reply is: it depends on points of view. When a book is reviewed for free, this happens because someone has chosen that book and hence someone noticed the book in the middle of thousands of books. When an author, instead, asks for a book review, usually a professional book reviewer asks, in turn, a fee for reading. This trade has not to be considered a curse by the authors, but an opportunity to lead their book out of obscurity. Another good chance to promote a book is create a fan page on the main social networks, but this method, important for being noted by friends, colleagues and readers, by itself, is insufficient to get a good book promotion.
About a good campaign of book promotion, the first and last goal must be to arrive to be reviewed anywhere and even on important international newspapers. Sometimes, to get published on big magazines of book reviews, the first rule is just the one to be published on other professional websites of book reviews! Do you understand? Don’t fear to choose and buy services of book promotion rather, seek and use them!
Also read: The importance of being reviewed.
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Rosalba Mancuso is the journalist, born in Sicily, who founded three online magazines in English. On Advicebooks Book Reviews, Rosalba shows her great passion for books, helping readers and book lovers choose and buy the best books she read and reviewed. She also worked as a contributor to print and online magazines and as a bilingual Italian-English writer. Here, Rosalba also offers room to authors and publishers who want to get their books reviewed through the voice of an avid reader like her. You must also know that this book review magazine lives thanks to your help. Rosalba, in fact, earns a small commission, with no cost for you, when you buy books through the affiliate links you find in her book reviews. This book review magazine is also funded by services of editorial reviews and book press releases.
