How to Promote Your Book With Goodreads

If you’re an author, Goodreads is one of the best promotional tools out there, regardless of whether you’re published traditionally or by Kindle. And since now more than ever it’s up to the author to promote his or her own work, sites like Goodreads are a blessing. Gone are the days when the publishing houses spent tons of money promoting new authors. Unknowns are just too risky.

So what’s the poor author to do? Hire a publicist? Spend thousands of dollars on magazine and newspaper ads?

There is a better way.

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How To Write A Series Bible

When you present your fantasy manuscript to an agent, odds are, if he or she likes it, that agent will come back to you with a strategy to sell you as a brand. And part of that branding process inevitably involves turning your book into a series. Because let’s face it, sequels are the big thing in fantasy today. They make the publishers money. Readers like the familiar, and will buy what they bought before.

So how exactly do you write a Series Bible? Continue Reading