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Author Publicity Pack: Resources to Help You Take Your Book Marketing To The Next Level 2013 Shelley Hitz and Heather Hart All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means electronic, mechanical, photographic (photocopying), recording, or otherwise without prior permission in writing from the author. Learn the one thing that increased our book royalties by hundreds of dollars each month...without any additional expenses and without writing a new book here: http://www.trainingauthors.com/newsletter/ T ABLE OF C ONTENTS I NTRODUCTION Did you know that each place you list your book online increases your books exposure and provides a backlink to your book or website which helps Google ranking? Its true. But each time you share about your book online, youre not only telling Google that your book is important, youre also getting publicity for you and your book. Publicity : the act of getting public notice. It sounds like something that only big publishing houses can afford to do, yet any author can increase their publicity and their book sales and do so on little to no budget.

This book outlines over 130 places that authors can get publicity for themselves and their books. These are resources we have personally researched and compiled for our own book marketing efforts and now want to share these resources with you. Dont feel like you have to list your book in each and every place we list within this book, but choose a few to start with and then add your book to other places as you have time. Trying to take advantage of each and every opportunity at once will only serve to overwhelm you, so we highly recommend pacing yourself and choosing the ones that you think will work best for you and your book. What is Included in This Book: * 32 Places to Promote Your Book For Free * 8 Free Press Releases Submission Sites * 5 Places to Get Book Reviews * 20 Book Awards For Which You Can Submit Your Book * 7 Media Sources for Authors * 36 Paid Advertising Resources * 6 Virtual Bookshelves and Forums * 18 Facebook Groups For Book Promotion * And More! Because we have personally published many Christian books, we have also included 50 additional resources specifically for Christian authors. Lets Get Started! Join us and take your marketing to the next level by publicizing your book.

P ROMOTE Y OUR B OOK F OR F REE Here is a listing of resources we have gathered where you can promote your book for free. We encourage you to take advantage of these opportunities. Digital Books Today: Submit your book to be considered to be featured on their site for free here: http://digitalbooktoday.com/register-weekly-featured-great-read They also interview authors whose books meet their requirements: http://digitalbooktoday.com/5-dbt-author-interview/ Indie House Books: Free promotion if you subscribe to their e-mail newsletter: http://indiehousebooks.com/authors-corner Book Matcher: You can add your books to their site for free. First you must sign up for an account here: http://www.bookmatchers.com/ New Book Journal: You can submit a press release to this site for free. Simply go to the link below and click the blue contact button on the left hand side. http://newbookjournal.com $0.99 Thrifty Thursdays: Each Thursday, they will put up a post calling for anyone who has a book priced at 99 here: http://www.indiesunlimited.com Get Featured on Go Indie: Authors can be interviewed, featured, or submit articles to their site. http://readindies.blogspot.com/p/get-featured.html World Literary Caf: World Literary Caf (WLC) has several opportunities for you to promote your books. http://readindies.blogspot.com/p/get-featured.html World Literary Caf: World Literary Caf (WLC) has several opportunities for you to promote your books.

Free Tweets : I like to take advantage of this offer because it forces me to write a new tweet for my books and it is free exposure. You can only submit one tweet per week. http://www.worldliterarycafe.com/content/indie-kindle Author Interviews : http://www.worldliterarycafe.com/content/author-interview-sign-ups Free Book Giveaways : http://www.worldliterarycafe.com/content/free-book-friday-sign Indies Unlimited: They offer a number of ways to promote your books for free. See a complete list on their website: http://www.indiesunlimited.com/submissions/ Daily Cheap Reads: If you have a book that is not in the exclusive KLL and you would like them to consider posting it, they require a minimum of five reviews and that the book be priced under $5. Please send a link of your book if you have the reviews and the book is not in the lending program. http://dailycheapreads.com/your-two-cents-worth/ Cheap Kindle Daily Cheap Kindle Daily offers free advertising for cheap Kindle books.

Your book must meet their criteria and you have to post a badge on your site to get your book featured for free: http://cheapkindledaily.wordpress.com/submissions/book-requirements/ Addicted to eBooks : You can submit your books here as long as you have at least 5 reviews. http://addictedtoebooks.com/node/add/ebook Awesome Gang: Submit your book (with author bio) free no account needed. http://awesomegang.com/submit-your-book You Do PR: You can sign up for a free lifetime membership which gives you the opportunity to promote your book on their site. http://www.youdopr.com/services.html @FreeEbooksDaily: If you follow @FreeEbooksDaily, send them a tweet (not DM) about your book include plz RT, and they will be happy to RT it for you. https://twitter.com/FreeEbooksDaily Best Book Reader Lovers: Free if you link back to their site. http://authonomy.com/about.aspx Nothing Binding: Create a free account to add your books. http://www.nothingbinding.com/nothing-binding-membership-benefits-bonuses.html Book Hitch: Create an account and then you can add your books to their search engine for free or upgrade to a premium listing. http://www.bookhitch.com/addbook.aspx Who Wrote What: Get a 30 day free trial of their advertising and then you can choose if you want to continue after that time or not for as low as $0.27/day. http://www.whowrotewhat.net/advert.html Author Marketing Club: They will feature your book if you post a blog about their site or link to them. http://authormarketingclub.com/members/featured-member-books Kindle Book Blast: You need to sign up for their newsletter list to have access to free promotional opportunities. http://kindlebookblast.com/for-authors-promote-your-book Bookly Books: Bookly Books sends out a monthly newsletter of new releases, free eBooks and bargain books. http://kindlebookblast.com/for-authors-promote-your-book Bookly Books: Bookly Books sends out a monthly newsletter of new releases, free eBooks and bargain books.

They also have several other promotional opportunities for authors. You can learn more at: http://booklybooks.com/authors/ Human Made: Human Made allows you to submit your books and gives you a profile page where all of your works are displayed together. http://www.humanmade.net/ WattPad: Claims to be the world's largest community for discovering and sharing stories. You can set up an account with them for free: http://www.wattpad.com/ Book Goodies: This site encourages authors to submit a synopsis of their book as well as an introduction to them as an author: http://bookgoodies.com/contact-us/authors-tell-us-about-your-book/ Slake: It's crazy easy to add your book to this site. Once you have at least one book added, you can also add your author website, bio, etc. http://www.slake.com/rnd/add.asp Book Daily: When you sign up for a free account at Book Daily you can share a sample chapter from your book, post a photo and bio, add links to your website and more.

They also have a free marketing eBook that they giveaway as a sign up bonus: http://www.bookdaily.com/free Published.com: At published.com you can create an account with all of your book ISBNs. The info will be imported from Amazon or you can add/edit it manually. Then you can add links to your Facebook page, website, book reviews, etc. http://www.published.com/how-published-works.aspx Readers Realm: Conducts free author interviews: http://readersrealm1.wordpress.com/join-us/ So I Interviewed an Author: Another place to be interviewed: http://soiinterviewedanauthor.blogspot.com/p/author-tips-and-faqs.html Pin Your Book PinYourBook.com is a free service provided and maintained by Author Marketing Club. Its like Pinterest with books only. http://pinyourbook.com/ Ask David This website offers free book promotional plans for books getting you permanently listed on their website where viewers can leave reviews or connect with you online via links to any and all of your social media links.