Here's the latest, and this looks useful.
Places to promote:
Join these yahoo groups and post your blurbs/blog news/ new releases/ excerpts/ contests:
They have no special rules - you can post any day except author days - just
click on calendar when you first go in and it will show you if it's an
author day or not.
2. Book Cravers -
groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCravers/?yguid=419564056 No special
rules - you can post on any days
3. Castles in the Sky -
groups.yahoo.com/group/castleintheskyflightoffantasy/?yguid=419564056 You can only post to them on Sundays
4. Chatting With Joyfully Reviewed -
groups.yahoo.com/group/Chatting_with_Joyfully_Reviewed/?yguid=419564056 You can only post on Tuesdays and no more than 3 posts in that one day
5. Cupids Library Reviews -
groups.yahoo.com/group/cupidslibraryreviews/?yguid=419564056 No
rules - post anytime
6. Dark Diva Reviews -
groups.yahoo.com/group/DarkDivaReviews/?yguid=419564056 You can
post any day but only 1 or 2 per week
7. Denise Bridger News -
ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/denysebridgernews/?yguid=419564056 You
can post any day but she likes you to chat as well as post your promos -
nice group of women here
8. eBook Chatters -
groups.yahoo.com/group/ebookChatters/?yguid=419564056post on any
day
9. Enchanters Loop -
groups.yahoo.com/group/enchantersloop/?yguid=419564056Post on any
day
10. Erotic Excerpts & Promotionals -
groups.yahoo.com/group/eroticexcerpts/?yguid=419564056post on any
day
11. Erotic Paranormal Romance -
groups.yahoo.com/group/eroticaparanormalromance/?yguid=419564056 Post any day but must be paranormal in some way
12. Erotic Readers & Their Authors -
groups.yahoo.com/group/eroticreadersandtheirauthors/?yguid=419564056 Post any day
13. Erotic Romance Writers -
groups.yahoo.com/group/Erotic-RomanceWriters/?yguid=419564056 post
any day
14. Euro Reviews Chat -
groups.yahoo.com/group/EuroReviewsChat/?yguid=419564056 post any
day
15. Got Romance Authors -
groups.yahoo.com/group/gotromanceauthors/?yguid=419564056 Post any
day
16. Happily Ever After Reviews -
groups.yahoo.com/group/happilyeverafterreviews/?yguid=419564056 Post any day
17. Infinite Possibilities -
groups.yahoo.com/group/Infinite_Possibilities/?yguid=419564056 Post any day
18. Love Romances Café -
groups.yahoo.com/group/LoveRomancesCafe/?yguid=419564056 Post only
on Mondays - you're allowed 3 only - 2 can be promos and 1 can be newsy like
contests and notices
20. Lyrical Press -
groups.yahoo.com/group/lyricalpress/?yguid=419564056 Post any day
but only Excerpts PG13 rated on Wednesday
21. Manic Readers -
groups.yahoo.com/group/manicreaders/?yguid=419564056Post on
Fridays Only
22. Midnight Seductions -
groups.yahoo.com/group/MidnightSeductions/?yguid=419564056 Post on
Mondays only
23. Novel Sisterhood -
groups.yahoo.com/group/novelsisterhood/?yguid=419564056Post on
Sundays only
24. Paige Tyler -
groups.yahoo.com/group/PaigeTyler/?yguid=419564056 Post on Mondays
only - only 2 posts allowed
25. Paranormal Monday -
groups.yahoo.com/group/ParanormalMonday/?yguid=419564056 Mondays
only and needs to be paranormal
26. Paranormal Romance Book Group -
groups.yahoo.com/group/ParanormalRomanceBookGroup/?yguid=419564056 Post any day - paranormal only
27. Promo Only -
groups.yahoo.com/group/PromoOnly/?yguid=419564056 Post any day
28. Realms of Sci Fi -
groups.yahoo.com/group/Realms_of_SciFi/?yguid=419564056No Posting
on Thursdays - Monday is News Day, Tuesday is for any Genre, Wednesday is
Sci Fi only, Thursday No posting, Friday is Contest Day, and Saturday &
Sunday is Sci Fi Excerpts
29. Red Roses for Authors -
uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/redrosesforauthors/?yguid=419564056 Post
any day but Friday - put Hot in subject line for adult material
30. Romance at Heart -
groups.yahoo.com/group/Romance_at_Heart/?yguid=419564056 Post any
day
31. Romance Books R Us -
groups.yahoo.com/group/romancebooksrus/?yguid=419564056 Post any
day but only 1 post daily
32. Romance Erotica -
groups.yahoo.com/group/Romance_erotica_connection/?yguid=419564056 Post any day but never more than 1 per day for the same book
33. Romance Excerpts Only -
groups.yahoo.com/group/romanceexcerptsonly/?yguid=419564056 Post
any day and posts must contain book title, author, genre and rating
34. Romantic Suspense -
groups.yahoo.com/group/RomanticSuspense_/?yguid=419564056 Post on
Sunday only and they like you to check back a few times that day to answer
any questions from the readers
35. RoRR Chatters -
groups.yahoo.com/group/RoRRChatters/?yguid=419564056Post on
Sunday only
36. Talking Two Lips -
groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkingTwoLips/?yguid=419564056Post on
Mondays only
37. The Romance Room -
groups.yahoo.com/group/theromanceroom/?yguid=419564056 Post -
Mondays & Tuesdays are Western, Wednesday is Horror/Suspense, Thursday is
Sci Fi/Paranormal, Friday is Contemporary and Saturday & Sunday is post
anything
38. TRS Blue -
groups.yahoo.com/group/trsblue/?yguid=419564056 Post any day except Tuesday - Put the word "Promo" in subject line
39. World Romance Readers -
groups.yahoo.com/group/World_Romance_Readers/?yguid=419564056 Post
any day
40. Beth Wylde -
groups.yahoo.com/group/bethwylde/ Post on
Mondays only
There are tons of yahoo groups out there! Once you join one, it seems like they find you.
Here are some places to check out for promotional opportunities:
When you're like me, and you don't have a lot of time to do this - because
it can be quite time consuming - you can use a promotion service for very
little money. Topaz Productions is a good one. For around $30 they will take
your book and promote it to a couple of hundred Yahoo Groups twice a week
for a month. That represents a lot of time to you so it's well worth the
money. This is their link
www.topazpromos.com/Also Honey Bee Promotions is a new service. I’ve personally used them and they were quick and efficient—and also cheap!
honeybeepromotions.comAnother way to promote your book is by being a guest on different blogs.
Many of your fellow authors have personal blogs they invite guests on. Go
through the names and bring up their sites - a lot of them have Contact Me
Pages and just drop them a line and ask if they have openings soon for a
guest. You can do a simple interview and promote your book, or actually
write a short article on any subject and then promote your book.
If you don't already have one, get a Facebook page. You will be surprised at
how fast your friends list grows as people learn about your book. You can
also go to some of your favorite authors and read down their list of
friends - send people Friendship Requests even if you don't know them. Just
make sure your page tells all about your being a writer - and don't use your
real name - only your writer's name. Use the Facebook to promote your book
and yourself. Without being too intrusive, be a little personal. Fans love
to know a little bit about the person who writes the words they love to
read.
Make sure you Twitter - it's the singles bar of the century and a LOT of
people read those tweets. Get on at least once daily and post anything -
just a line to say you had a good day if nothing else. The point is to keep
your name out there.
Set up a professional page with LinkedIn - Join a lot of their chat groups with other authors and readers
When your book makes it to Amazon set up an author page with them - it's
also free - here's the link for that.
authorcentral.amazon.com/Make use of the groups they have there.
www.kindleboards.com/index.phpYou can join several that allow you
to talk about your Amazon books and let you review and rate others. Also
sign up for their Associate's Program and become an affiliate - that way you
can put their special link on your site to your book and you'll earn an
extra percentage anytime someone uses that link to go in and buy your book -
they pay it to you quarterly.
Manic Readers has a place to set up a free author page now where you can
display all of your book covers and even ask for reviews - here's the link -
www.manicreaders.com/index.cfmBookworm Bags is a great way to get promotional material
out to the public if you can't find time or afford to attend
conferences.
bookwormbags.com/author-information/Fresh Fiction Register is a free place to register your books
and expose your writing to new readers.
freshfiction.com/register.phpThis is a great site for free - you can publicize your book
istorytale.org/As you get more serious with promoting you may want to think about spending
a little more money to make it happen. You might want to think about Author Island - a
promotion group. They have many different rates. They promote the book on their site, host cyber release parties and advertise
them, host contests - set up blogs - and have a posting board I can
promote any news I have to share with readers.
www.authorisland.com/Next - interviews and ads. All of the review sites - Dark Divas, Happily
Ever After...etc - have systems in place for author interviews and places to
buy ads to promote yourself. Each of their sites have someplace on them that
says "Request an Interview" - do as many as you can, just not all the same
week - space them out so your name is continually out there. The ads usually
run for 2-4 weeks are are as little as $5 - you can post your book cover,
and a link to the book's sale page for that price. The interviews can be
fun, and it gives the readers a way to learn more about you. If you can't
find any on your own let me know and I'll put together a list of a few.
Now, if you don't already have one a website is mandatory! Readers want to
think you're serious and professional and not someone who's just killing
time writing in your bunny slippers while the soap opera plays on the
television. Setting up a professional page can give them that illusion. It's
also a great tool to determine if the other things you're doing are working.
Websites can be free - although they usually look free when
they are - or they can be relative inexpensive and remember, everything you
do for your writing is tax deductible on your income taxes (here in the
states anyway). I personally like Bandoozle - it was originally for the
music industry but anyone can join. Their software is idiot proof - I'm
proof of that since I'd never done anything like that before and I set up
and maintain my own site. Please check it out and sign my guest book Once
you have one set up you can swap links with other authors - another way to
get your name out there and help out your fellow author in the process. If
you link on my site then everyone that looks at mine will also see you as
one of my favorite sites.
Another way to promote is by D. Renee Bagby's First Chapter Blog - she posts
your first chapter and the readers vote on the best at the end of the month.
It gets people interested in buying your book if they like reading the first
chapter - it's also free - here's the link
dreneebagbypresentsfirstchapters.blogspot.com/Joining The Romance Studio is also a great promotion too.
www.theromancestudio.com/blue/ For a small fee, I think it was
30.00 for 6 months, you become a Featured Member. It would give you a
chance to try their services to see if they improved your sales. From there
you can schedule your own release parties, set up chats or interviews,
participate in their parties and they have several a month. During the
parties you have unlimited posting to promote yourself, you can hold
contests and give away books or other items, and respond to the readers. At
the end of each party they provide you with a list of participants that
agreed to be put on mailing lists so you can start sending out your own
monthly news email. They have their book-a-day giveaways you
can donate pdf books to for promotion. All these things can be promoted
from your other sites as well. They have a lot of advertising available and
with being a Featured Member their prices are discounted - many ads for the
month are less than 10.00
Set up an author page at ARe -
www.arecafe.com/ You can promote
your books, and take advantage of their cheap ads - as little as 5.00 -
There are also groups you can join to have interaction with readers.
Set up a page with Romance Reviews -
erotic.theromancereviews.com/mypageprofile.php?location=missymartine They also have cheap ads and if you agree to display their link on your
website you get one free banner ad per month.
Join Goodreads and list your own books, as well as the ones you like to
read. Post reviews and join some of the groups so you can mingle with the
readers.
www.goodreads.com/Consider having promotional things made up. Vista Print is a great place to
do this.
www.vistaprint.com/vp/ns/default.aspx?xnav=welcomeback&xnid=removecookies&rd=2&GP=6%2f19%2f2011+4%3a19%3a22+PM&GPS=1578533617&GNF=1&GPLSID=Each time they send out an ad by email they offer free things. You can
always get one pen, one t-shirt, and many other free things and only pay
shipping which is very cheap as long as you don't want it fast. The prices
on things you buy is extremely reasonable. When they offer free postcards
it's always at least 50 and many times 100 - you can get free business
cards, rack cards, key chains, pens, mouse pads, tote bags, caps and
t-shirts, magnets, calendars. They have designs to choose from or for a
small fee - less than $5 you can have your book cover printed on them. They
make great prizes in contest, or give aways when you're doing a party.
Vista print does a free car door magnet that you can get and put on the side
of your car when you're driving - have your book cover put on it. Get some
business cards made up and leave them with your checks in restaurants, give
them to the cashier at the grocery and other retail stores.
Check with your
local used bookstores and see if they'll drop your business card, or maybe a
printed post card with a book cover and excerpt on it in the bags when
people buy books, get some t-shirts made up with your book covers and wear
them whenever you go out. Have the back of the shirt say "Ask Me About My
Books". Talk with local businesses that would attract a large crown on the
weekend - wineries, book stores, antique shops, and believe it or not, adult
book/novelty stores. Leave some printed material for them to hand out.
You can get some great, cheap pens here
www.4imprint.com/ or even
here
www.justpromotionalproducts.com.au/index.php?target=products&product_id=1890
