I'm in this forum because I think it's busier and more widely visited than some of the promotion forums.
I just got an email from my small-press publisher who is interested in knowing how I plan to promote and sell my YA novel. I have a Facebook presence but it's a personal account. I don't have an author website.
What are the best strategies to commit to for promoting my novel, especially at this point, without a firm release date (2012) or cover?
I was thinking about offering them the following suggestions:
I just got an email from my small-press publisher who is interested in knowing how I plan to promote and sell my YA novel. I have a Facebook presence but it's a personal account. I don't have an author website.
What are the best strategies to commit to for promoting my novel, especially at this point, without a firm release date (2012) or cover?
I was thinking about offering them the following suggestions:
- Create a professional Facebook author site
- Create an Internet author site, possibly with a blog (yikes! what would I blog about?)
- Create an early book trailer to put on those sites