Notes from Rocking Self Publishing #120

Awareness Week:
  • Send out photos of cover for recognition
  • Bookblast: Cover, price, buy link
Then Second Week: Sire Promotions (contact ahead of time to gauge interest)
  • fussylibrarian
  • digitalbooktoday
  • ereadernewstoday
  • bookgorilla
  • bookbub
  • bknights
  • sweetfreebooks
  • choosybookworm
  • booksends
  • ereadergirl
  • Author Promotion (with authors connected with, sharing across author lists)
In back of book:
  • Links to books
  • newsletter
Steps to "legitimacy," according to Indie Author Hub...
  1. Have self-published one PRINT EDITION of a book with a traditional print shop or a POD servicing company like CreateSpace or LightningSource/Ingram Spark.
  2. Have self-published one EBOOK EDITION of your book with Smashwords, Amazon, NookPress, iBooks, Kobo, etc.
  3. Have self-published one AUDIO EDITION with an online retailer like ACX (Audiobook Creation Exchange), Audible, Books in Motion, iTunes, etc.
  4. Have self-published more than one PRINT or EBOOK in any of the above formats.
  5. Have passed your self-published book through your critique group, another published author, or had it professionally edited (we recommend all three) before you printed and/or uploaded it.