5 Exciting Blogs to Try Right Now [especially if you're marketing your book]

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Book marketing. Whether you're an established author or not, you are learning or have first-hand knowledge that it takes time to find the best sites for book marketing. Great news! Here are five blogs with substantial lists for your perusal. [Pay special attention to #3].

1) Be Writ. Brit says she is "helps creatives by day" and writes "novels in [her] head the rest of the time.""20 Writing Blogs That Accept Guest Posts" is a must-read.

2) Faith Blum has a great site with hundreds of ideas for writers. My favorite? "Promo Sites" from free advertising to paid.

3) A phenomenal article about how best to get a reader's attention. "How to Get a Reader's Attention by Shocking Broca" by Thomas Umstattd Jr. Read or listen to the Podcast. 

4) A fantastic site from Jane Friedman. My favorite article? "4 Ways to Immediately Improve Your Book Marketing Efforts." Want to know how best to find book reviewers? You'll want to read this article. 

5) Last, but surely not least, take a visit to Author Unlimited. My favorite place? "50 Surprisingly Simple Ways to Promote Your Book." Want some outside-the-box ideas along with ideas you may have already heard of but have procrastinated in trying? You'll want to make a visit.

Happy Marketing!

Guest Post Marketing

One of the best ways I know of to market is to find blogs that are eager to post your guest post. It really isn't enough to write your own posts on your own blog, it's important to share your knowledge and experience with others outside your own world.

I usually write up guest posts that reflect on some aspect of marketing. But I have also created posts on writing and publishing. I have also shared some of my thoughts on the process of writing, and how life fits in to my writing career or the other way around.

A big thing that guest posting does is allow readers of the particular blog to follow you on your blog as well as locate your books. You may get some new readership on your own blog and maybe even some sales.

Though it is very difficult to track sales when it comes to guest blog writing, there are many things I have noticed when it has come to interest. You know you are moving forward when:

1. You get a few responses for your guest post and are able to connect with any or all of those who've responded to your guest post.

2. When your numbers on your own blog increase the day or the day following your guest blog post.

3. The person in charge of the blog in which you are guest writing, invites you to post something else because his/her readership has increased.

It's important to remember that whatever you do to promote your work will rank higher and lower on your search engine depending on the current interest of the readership on that particular blog. But that doesn't mean you should search out only highly read blogs.

4. Writing a guest post for any blog will open the doors to a trade. Why not ask the blog owner if he/she is interested in writing for your blog, enlarging your new friendship and increasing both of your readerships?

Guest post marketing is a little like playing in the ocean. You spend some time playing in the sand, collecting shells and cooling off in the water. Then you return home. The responses and other perks received from your guest blog are a little like the photos you look at from your visit to the ocean to remind you of your great time away.

Feast on This

Fellow readers and writers!

Today is a wonderful day for more guest blogs. You'll find them at: Book Daily: http://www.bookdaily.com/authorresource/blog/post/1198455 and Mystery Writing is Murder: http://mysterywritingismurder.blogspot.com/.

A big THANK YOU to all those who have supported me thus far in my promotion efforts for Scrambled. The free Kindle day was a huge success!

Tomorrow, look for a special deal on a paperback copy of Scrambled, and if you're a writer, be sure and get your FREE book marketing booklet on Saturday.

Photo by Ed Yourdon, courtesy of Flickr

Feasting is a great thing, and not only to be had on Thanksgiving.

Have a great day!

Kathryn

Better Late Than Never

Yes, I had planned on letting you in on today's fun this morning, but my body wasn't cooperating.  Suffice it to say I have been down in bed all day.

So this is it. Better late than never.

Check out my guest post on Booksnoop, especially if you want to learn a little bit about "What Your favorite Reading Haunt Says About You" http://www.thebooksnoop.com/.

Also, check out the book review at: http://cozymysterybookreviews.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/review-scrambled-by-kathryn-elizabeth-jones/

Tomorrow, there will be another guest post at Mystery Writing is Murder, and come Thursday I have a special deal for readers of paperbacks!

Love to you all,

Kathryn