My First Month of Book Promotion: What I’ve Learned

Really helpful post on ways of promoting a newly-published book. I felt exhausted just reading it!

Niels Saunders

I’ve been a busy bee

Just over a month ago, I self-published my novel Mervyn vs. Dennis on Amazon. A lot’s happened since then and I’ve been much busier than I expected. Here’s a fairly self-congratulatory list of the things I’ve managed to do in 5 weeks:

• Design my cover
• Buy a pineapple
• Buy a larger pineapple from a different supermarket because the first one looked a bit pathetic and not bristly enough
• Take a load of profile pictures
• Eat both pineapples
• Format my manuscript for Kindle and other devices
• Write a new blurb (this actually took hours)
• Completely redo my cover because I’d done the whole thing in the wrong size
• Write a bio
• Create an author site for Amazon
• Buy a domain name and create my own website
• Revamp my personal Twitter account into a more authory one
• Write my first 4 blogs
• Feed the cat

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