- Choose your market wisely – is the market popular with locals and visitors? Will the market have a large through traffic?
- Does it sell artisan products and crafts that will attract the kind of customer who may be interested in your books?
- Does the market have room for you? Make sure you ring ahead and check out the requirements and responsibilities – these vary, depending on rules set out of each market
- Be aware of the costs involved – each markets has a different fee structure
- Do you need to fill out forms and pay in advance or can you just turn up on the day?
- Do you have Public Liability Insuance? Is it a requirement of the market you are attending? The minimum seems to be $20 million and costs around $200 a year here in Australia
- Do you have the right equipment? Do you need a marquis (is the market outdoors?)? Do you have table, chairs, banners, and an enticing layout for your books?
- Do you have bookmarks, business cards and prices for your books clearly displayed?
- Reviews – have you laminated a good review of your book so potential buyers can see what others are saying about your writing?
- What else can you add to your display to maket it visually appealing (remember to maintain a professional image)? Think about taking your computer and showing a youtube clip if you have one – or make a simple interactive slideshow
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10 Steps to Running a Successful Book Stall
Posted in Book stalls, indie publishing, marketing books, print books, tagged book tours, indie publishing, marketing books, Markets & Fairs, The writing life on December 8, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The benefits of publishing a book series
Posted in book publishing, Books, collaboration, ebooks, Fiction, indie publishing, marketing books, marketing fiction, middle grade fiction, print books, series writing, Writing, writing life, tagged books, books and publishing, writing, writing fiction, writing series fiction on September 26, 2014| 1 Comment »
The first book in our Cracker & Gilly Mystery series arrived yesterday (Book 2 has been out for awhile but that’s another story) and I suddenly realized the potential of publishing and marketing a series.
And, not in any particular order, here they are:
1. We already have a readership
2. We already have a marketing strategy
3. Two books look better than one
4. We can now discount one book in the hope of interesting new readers in our series
5. Writing a book is tough…writing two books shows we’re serious 5. There are more marketing angles with two books
6. There is increased anticipation for Book 3
7. With more books we can sell boxed sets 8. Our books look good between bookends (okay, this one is a gloat:))
Learning Scrivener For Writers – Part 2
Posted in Books, ebooks, Fiction, indie publishing, non fiction, print books, Writing, writing life, writing podcasts, writing tools, tagged books, books and writing, indie publishing, writing, writing podcasts, writing tools, writing tutorials on September 25, 2014| 1 Comment »
The other day I shared my experience of working through a set of tutorials to learn Scrivener, delivered by Joseph at http://www.learnscrivenerfast.com.
I had no intention of doing another post on this but a funny thing happened on the way to completing the course…I cheated and skipped to the end to the Bonuses and found a great podcast by Joanna Penn (of http://www.thecreativepenn.com fame).
The podcast is all about organising your projects.
In my ideal world – let’s call it, say, Fantasyland – I decided to devote 2014 to getting half a dozen projects to completion with the grand idea of having something to market in 2015. Well, in my haphazard way I’m halfway there with three books completed and – remember, this is Fantasyland – selling.
But after listening to Joanna’s podcast on getting organised I realise I’m only a whisker away from having the other three done.
Back to Joseph and learning Scrivener. In my Scrivener binder I now have the final three projects for 2014 racing towards the finish line – Joanna even talks about daily word counts and a gizmo that does this in Scrivener – and yes, it looks like I can reach my goal of six completed projects for sale by the end of the year. If I wanna be clever I can double that because all are in both ebook and print formats (and I’m learning about audio books fast).
Twelve products for sale, me??
Joseph’s Learn Scrivener Fast has jettisoned my writing business out of Fantasyland and into the real world with one swift kick. Now all I need to do is go back in and finish the course…
Ah, I can hear my family laughing as they read this post. Me, finish anything?? In the infamous words of Eliza Doolittle, ‘Just you wait, ‘enry ‘iggins, just you wait’…
Anyone else doing Joseph’s course and loving it? Let us know your successes…
Learning Scrivener For Writers
Posted in book publishing, Books, ebooks, Fiction, indie publishing, non fiction, platform, print books, Writing, writingReading writing fiction, tagged books, books and writing, Ebooks, indie publishing, writing tools on September 22, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Another journey….Scrivener. I’m currently working my way through a set of tutorials by Joseph at http://www.learnscrivenerfast.com so that I can take control of my writing in a way that hasn’t been possible for me to date.
This program promises that not only can I organise my writing and keep count of my progress but I can take control of my output too…and herein lies the secret for me, being able to format my books as ebooks and print books, and upload them to the appropriate retailers in the right format. Sounds simple??
Let me tell you, it’s not…I’ve been blessed with the support of Australian EBook Publisher (AEP)…but now it’s time to learn at least a bit of the process for myself and that’s where Joseph and his ‘learn Scrivener Fast’ tutorials come in…he is my Scrivener coach and can be found at http://learnscrivenerfast.com…