Fiction Book Marketing

Fiction book marketing is all but easy. You finish publishing your fiction book and check everyday to see the flood of money filling your bank account. But nothing happens. Just because you publish your book, it doesn't mean it is going to sell itself. You must now shift gears from writer to marketing expert.

Well, you don't have to be a sales expert to effectively sell you fiction books. You just have to know how to do it, which most writers do not. Why don't they know how to sell books? Because they are writers, not salesmen or women.

Books don't generally sell themselves. They need a certain amount of influence to get the ball rolling. You as an author are in charge of that push because it is your book. Even if a big named publisher produces your book, you are still the primary source of that books success. The publisher's name on the book may help a little, but without you, the book goes nowhere.

Statistically speaking, only about 1 percent of all fiction books published each year reach the New York Times Best Sellers List. Those are the ones that sell millions of copies. Only 10 percent of writer's books sell more than a hundred copies, and the rest are under that.

With those statistics in mind, you are thinking that it's just not worth it to even publish a book, right? Well, the reason only 10 percent of the authors sell more than a hundred copies of their books is because they are doing some form of marketing to get exposure for their book. The 1 percent are heavily marketing their books and the ones who don't have a lot of books sold aren't marketing it at all or very little.

Marketing is the most difficult hurdle to overcome once your book is published. Whether you self publish or go through a publisher, you must change your thinking from writer to advertiser.

If you don't know much about marketing, which most people don't, you need to do a lot of research and educate yourself on the ins and outs of marketing

How to Publish a Book

Learn how to publish a book through Write and Publish Fiction's extensive information and resources. Whether you are planning on taking your story to a publisher to do the work for you or you plan on self-publishing it, there isn't a whole lot of work to do.

If you self publish your work, you will have to do all of the work, or arrange all of the work to be done for you. I publish all of my own books and it's really not as difficult as it sounds.

Now there are some things that writers find hard such as editing their own writing or making a book cover, but the formatting of the book is very easy with a simple word processing system. What you see is what you get.

If you are going to submit your book to a publisher, they want your story in a certain format so they can easily convert it to the format they want for your book. That can take more time to do, but you won't have to worry about the book cover and editing as much.

Be careful with vanity presses that promise to help you "self-publish" your work. You will pay a good fee to have your cover made and to have them format your book, and the DON'T generally edit your story. You must have this done first before submitting your story to them.

Also, when going through a publisher other than yourself, you usually give up all your writes to the book for a set amount of years. With self-publishing, you will learn how to publish a book that you have complete control over and can republish it if you find errors in it. The downfall of doing it all yourself is limited access to book store databases and such - it's more difficult to sell your books once they are published.

Learn how to publish a book and get your story on the market today!