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Top Advice for Authors Promoting Their Book: From a survey of 700+ book bloggers
Do you need help with your book marketing? Take the advice of 700+ book bloggers and book reviewers! In a survey of 700+ book bloggers and book reviewers, the question was "If you could give an author one piece of advice about promoting their book, what would it be?" The answers show authors what is important to book bloggers & reviewers; what they need to promote your books. This raw list is unedited – straight from the “horse’s mouth” as the saying goes. The repeated answers drive home how many share the same thoughts; how many want to share the same advice; how many experience the same pain points. The rawness brings forward the honesty in the answers. This book is not a polished “how to sell a million books” but a list of advice quotes from hundreds of the top reviewers in the industry. With book bloggers and other online sites being more and more involved in the marketing of books, authors need all the hints they can get. Let these answers guide you through the world of online promotions. Pick up this quick read today! Read the collection of reviews on Goodreads! The simplicity of this guide is its strength and I really enjoyed getting the many different perspectives. ~ Joshua A list of results from a survey might sound like a sleep-inducer but not in this case! I devoured it! Yes, a lot was repeated, which made me see that book review bloggers want the same basics, and these cannot be repeated enough! ~Kay While this is a short book it is chock full of useful information. It is a quick and easy read but one that will teach ever author many valuable lessons. I love how the book was formatted - one to three sentences from bloggers sharing the do's and don'ts. So many of the bloggers had the same tip (said differently). So as you read, you really learned what is truly important! Highly recommend! ~Jess
64 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 1, 2016
About the author
Barb Drozdowich
58 books302 followersBarb can teach anyone to use WordPress. She is a voracious reader of Regency Romance, taxi driver, gourmet chef in training, and slave to a cute puppy.
Barb has taught in colleges, universities and in the banking industry. More recently, she brings her years of teaching experience and a deep love of books to help authors develop the social media platform needed to succeed in today’s fast evolving publishing world. She owns Bakerview Consulting and manages the popular blog, Sugarbeat’s Books. She is also the creator and curator of The Book Blogger List
She is the author of more than 15 books 38 YouTube videos, a beginner WordPress course, a Goodreads course and lives in the mountains of British Columbia with her family.
Barb has taught in colleges, universities and in the banking industry. More recently, she brings her years of teaching experience and a deep love of books to help authors develop the social media platform needed to succeed in today’s fast evolving publishing world. She owns Bakerview Consulting and manages the popular blog, Sugarbeat’s Books. She is also the creator and curator of The Book Blogger List
She is the author of more than 15 books 38 YouTube videos, a beginner WordPress course, a Goodreads course and lives in the mountains of British Columbia with her family.
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August 19, 2019
As an author myself, I really found Barb Drozdowich’s guide Top Advice for Authors Promoting their Book to be helpful! It’s really just a slew of quotes from book bloggers all answering the same question, ‘what advice do you have for authors promoting their books?’ The simplicity of this guide is its strength and I really enjoyed getting the many different perspectives. This one’s great for any authors looking to dredge up some hype about their writing!
March 6, 2016
While this is a short book it is chock full of useful information. It is a quick and easy read but one that will teach ever author many valuable lessons. I love how the book was formatted - one to three sentences from bloggers sharing the do's and don'ts. So many of the bloggers had the same tip (said differently). So as you read, you really learned what is truly important! Highly recommend!
November 26, 2017
This is a collection of quotes compiled by the author from book bloggers offering advice to authors. The collective wisdom is helpful, but it may be different content than you expect.
August 25, 2016
I enjoy this author and this resource could have been a 5 star for me, but wasn't. The material was not what I anticipated. The author did a huge amount of highly-valuable research and has presented truly useful facts. My issue is that rather than organizing the data into groups, it's just a list of each blogger's answer. The author aimed to make the point that the repetitive nature of the answers highlights how indispensable the advice is.
Reading the bloggers' answers is time consuming. Rather than presenting a list of responses, I was expecting the bloggers' responses to be sorted and grouped. Rather than reading "Don't spam" fifty times, she might have written, "Chapter One: Don't Spam", then said 50 out of 500 bloggers listed this as their #1 piece of advice. She could also have defined exactly what spamming is, as a lot of newbies I encounter seem to have a problem understanding that.
If this book were boiled down to 25 pages, I would gladly spend the money in exchange for the time I'd save. The current content is very valuable if one doesn't mind repetition. This book, rather than an evaluation of facts, is simply shared research. I don't like giving this author a 3 star review because she's proven to be a solid authority in her field. However, if she'd grouped similar facts and presented the conclusions gleaned to me herself instead of making me do it, I would be touting this book as an indispensable resource for all authors.
Ms. Drozdowich, if you ever revamp this book, I will promote the heck out of it.
Reading the bloggers' answers is time consuming. Rather than presenting a list of responses, I was expecting the bloggers' responses to be sorted and grouped. Rather than reading "Don't spam" fifty times, she might have written, "Chapter One: Don't Spam", then said 50 out of 500 bloggers listed this as their #1 piece of advice. She could also have defined exactly what spamming is, as a lot of newbies I encounter seem to have a problem understanding that.
If this book were boiled down to 25 pages, I would gladly spend the money in exchange for the time I'd save. The current content is very valuable if one doesn't mind repetition. This book, rather than an evaluation of facts, is simply shared research. I don't like giving this author a 3 star review because she's proven to be a solid authority in her field. However, if she'd grouped similar facts and presented the conclusions gleaned to me herself instead of making me do it, I would be touting this book as an indispensable resource for all authors.
Ms. Drozdowich, if you ever revamp this book, I will promote the heck out of it.
March 7, 2016
A list of results from a survey might sound like a sleep-inducer but not in this case! I devoured it! Yes, a lot was repeated, which made me see that book review bloggers want the same basics, and these cannot be repeated enough! Bloggers may be a cold, hard screen to you, but they really are warm-blooded people and this is their voices telling you so. I did learn something new about one thing they want included in the request I never realized bloggers wanted (yup, you'll have to read the book to find it) and I also learned an original suggestion to authors about what to promote (go read to learn it!). Being excellent, being personable, being informed and having good manners -- it's like going to a networking event with a fistful of business cards but finding it is you, not your card, that people are interested in. Very useful, helpful, often eye-opening book!
March 30, 2017
Reading this book was the equivalent of the movie Groundhog Day. I kept reading the same answers over and over and over and over and over again.
This is okay advice for authors promoting their book, but I wouldn't say top. This is not really a book. It is rather answers to a survey question the author posted. The answers make up this "book". Literally. There is no organization and it is just a list. The same answers are repeated over and over throughout. It would have been easier and more palatable to the reader to group the like answers and paraphrase a few or say 25 people said this remark.
I have read other books by this author previously and expected a much different book. This one was a disappointment.
This is okay advice for authors promoting their book, but I wouldn't say top. This is not really a book. It is rather answers to a survey question the author posted. The answers make up this "book". Literally. There is no organization and it is just a list. The same answers are repeated over and over throughout. It would have been easier and more palatable to the reader to group the like answers and paraphrase a few or say 25 people said this remark.
I have read other books by this author previously and expected a much different book. This one was a disappointment.
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