Welcome to this week's WWW where fellow Wild Rose Press romance author, Linda Caroll-Bradd, will share a bit about today's marketing on freebie sites.
Stick around after her guest post for an excerpt from her latest release, Dipping In A Toe.
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Book
Promotion on Free Sites
In today’s
book market, even more than a year or two ago, authors must put in a
significant amount of time to promote their titles. Used to be an author only needed
a website. Then reader interest went to blogs where the author was expected to
be entertaining and share more personal information. In some instances, authors
banded together and created group blogs to capitalize on cross-promotion
opportunities.
Next stage was creating an identity on social media
sites (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, reddIt, Tumblr—and undoubtedly more that I
haven’t heard of). Articles presented by various experts on social media warn
about trying to be everywhere and that authors should concentrate on two social
media platforms and focus their energy and time there.
Every author
should create an author page on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. This allows
readers who find one of your titles to go to one location where all your titles
are listed. Another place to be established is on Goodreads. Both of these
places have a maximum 24-hour delay from application to approval.
Since
Thanksgiving 2012, I have had 5 titles release and learned of various places to
create a specific author page. Once you’ve invested the time to create an author
account on the following sites for free, you connect your individual titles
with your author page and only need to return when your next title releases.
Viola, another place where you have an online presence.
Classic
Romance Revival http://www.classicromancerevival.com
Story Finds http://storyfinds.com
For all
heat level of titles:
Book Daily http://www.bookdaily.com
Coffeetime
Romance http://www.coffeetimeromance.com/
Manic Readers http://www.manicreaders.com
Romance Novel
Center http://www.romancenovelcenter.com
Story Findsx http://storyfindsx.com
The Romance
Reviews http://theromancereviews.com
Also, here’s
a monthly newsletters where you can submit a free listing of your upcoming
title
The Book
Breeze http://www.thebookbreeze.com
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Dipping In A Toe
Contemporary Romance
by Linda Carroll-Bradd
Jessa
Landers has a secret crush on her teens’ years-younger swim coach. A widow for
three years, she’s managing her life and enjoys her freedom—except for long,
lonely evenings when she craves an attentive man.
Coach Rick
Grant loves being a high school teacher and swim coach. Surrounded by families
has him yearning for his own romantic connection—and his eye is on Jessa.
Will Jessa
protect the balance of her family life, or take a second chance on love?
Purchase Links:
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Excerpt:
As
if pulled by an invisible thread, my gaze went to the tall, fit man with the
ever-present clipboard in one hand and a stopwatch in the other. Normally an
adult wearing tropical-print board shorts and a faded surfboard tee-shirt
looked like he clung with desperation onto his youth. Instead Rick Grant wore
the attire like a medal of honor—like he’d earned the right to promote a
Hawaiian surfing competition from a decade earlier.
Maybe
he had. The image of his tan, lean body balancing on top of a surfboard
flittered through my mind. I pictured him, thinner but still muscular, body
sparkling with water droplets, wavy hair streaked with blonde highlights,
outlined against a cerulean blue sky. A heartfelt sigh escaped.
Christy
stopped to turn in her ascent up the metal bleachers, and cocked her head. “You
okay, Jessa?”
Caught. I whirled toward the bleachers and
set a foot on the lowest step. “I’m fine. Where do you want to sit?” Heat
burned my cheeks and I ducked my head, pretending the need to focus on placing
my wedge sandals on each step. I didn’t want the other mothers to learn about
my pathetic infatuation with the swim coach.
An
infatuation I kept telling myself was wrong. Didn’t I have enough to do between
my paralegal job, keeping up the house, managing the kids’ activities, and
arranging visits with their grandparents? How could I possibly add dating to
this hectic lifestyle?
Even
if by some wild chance the man in question were to show interest…
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About Linda Caroll-Bradd
Linda enjoys writing from her cabin in the mountains among the cedar and pines with her husband of 34 years and their two much-loved dogs.
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I have an Amazon author page, but not Barnes and Noble. Must set one up!
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