Where can people buy your product? This is an easy one
for most authors: book stores and/or online. You may want to consider setting up
a Paypal account so that people can buy your book directly from you from your
website. Of course, then the challenge becomes getting people to your website
to begin with.
For this reason, the easier place to get your book online
and into the hands of customer is amazon.com.
If you want your book in the big chain stores my advice
is to get an agent and a publisher. That is too much work for a writer to do
him or herself. If you want to get to that level of networking you’ll have next
to no time to do any actual writing.
As for other places to make your book available, make
sure you are at least on Facebook, twitter and Goodreads. You should also have
a website or a blog that you update regularly. If you write in a genre, find
genre groups and websites online and become an active member. Comment regularly
to build your brand. Take part in genre writing contests. Get yourself into
genre anthologies - any and all anthologies in your genre. Find writers
associations and be an active member.
And if you tell me it’s too much work my answer is suck
it up. How much do you want success?
BOOKS BY M JOSEPH MURPHY:Update: Jan 24, 2013
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