Marketing Your Book

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By Wendy C Allen


Below are questions which have been sent to me from my readers via the Ask EelKat advice column. Each question is a link. Clicking that link will take you directly to the article which I wrote to answer said question. I have tried to arrange them by category in order to make it easier for you to find the answers you need.

As my long time readers will already know a server crash took down most of the old free-hosted site on June 4, 2013 (which was online since 1997 and had reached 6,000+ pages). Thankfully everything was saved on a separate hard-drive and the site is being rebuilt with a new host and for the first time on it's own domain. YAY!

I am currently moving all 6,000 questions&answer articles to this site one page at a time, at a rate of about 4 to 7 new pages being added each day, so be patient. Not all links are yet clickable. This process started on September 2, 2013 and will be ongoing at least through to January 2014. (And it may be well into 2017 before all 6,000 pages will be back online if I continue at this rate of 5 a day.)


Marketing Dos:

Marketing — Why you need this step before you publish the book

Waiting Room Copies. What Are They And Should I Be Doing This?

Attracting Readers (Customers) to your business

Marketing with Yahoo Answers

Marketing Don'ts

What do you think of putting flyers on cars?

What exactly is a bestseller? (With info on a common way authors scam readers)


Business Cards, Letter head, Etc

Should I use Business cards to attract readers?

Dealing with Fans


Amazon.com

How Do I Get in With Amazon?

How Can I Add Content to My Amazon Page? It Looks Kind of Bare!

What Else Does Author Central Offer?

How Do I Get into the "Search Inside the Book!" Program?

How Else Can I Make My Book Page Look Better?

What is the difference between CreateSpace and Kindle?

I Got a Great Review, But They Can't Post It Directly on My Amazon Page. What Can I Do?

I Got a Nasty 1 Star Review, How Do I Get it Removed?

Should I Comment on Reader Reviews?

Help! I Found My Book Being Sold on Amazon With Under a Different Author's Name and With a Different Cover?

What Does My Ranking Mean?

How Do Reviews Effect My Rank?

I Have a Website, Can I Get People to Buy from Amazon.com?

There's Someone Selling Copies of My Book on Amazon Marketplace But I Haven't Sold Any Books Yet! How Did They Get My Book?

There's Someone Selling My Review Copies on Amazon! Can They Do That?


Getting Reviews and Publicity (Non-Amazon)

Where Do I Send My Books for Review Before Publication?

Should I Get My Book Reviewed Through LibraryThing?

Why Are These Reviewers Important?

How Do I Get a Review After the Book Is Published?

Buying Reviews

Why Aren't Paid Reviews Recommended?

What Do I Do With Reviews?

How Do I Edit a Review?

I Sent Out a Book to Be Reviewed, But It Wasn't. Shouldn't They Send the Book Back?

I Got a Terrible (One Star) Review! Can I Make the Website Where It's Posted Take It Down?

Are Bad Reviews Good For You?

I Keep Hearing About Self-Publishers Getting Burned By GoodReads. Is It Safe For Me to List My Book and Ask For Reviews There?

Are Blogs Worth Sending Books To?

What Are Blog Tours?

What Are Book Tours?

Should I Be Doing Book Signings and If So, Where and How, What Do I Do?

What is a Press Kit?

What Is in a Press Kit?

Do I have to have a Press Kit?

What is a Press/Media Release?

Can I Just Write a Media Release Announcing My Book?

How Do I Get My Press Release to the Media?

What Is a Publicist?

Can I Be My Own Publicist?

Should I Use My Own Name When I Am Publicizing My Book?

Are There Any Awards to Which I Can Submit My Book?

Are Book Awards Worth Anything (Will Anyone Care)?

How do I get into Barnes&Noble.com?

Can I link to my Barnes&Noble page via my own website?



Your Questions Answered

Who can I contact if my questions are not answered here?

What's a marketing plan and why do I need it?

How do I write a marketing plan?

How do I do that?

How do I reach my audience?

So social media is all I need?

I'm getting confused about when I need to edit, market, and send stuff out!

Do I need a publicist?

Should I use a publicist to announce my book?

What else do I need to have for a marketing plan?

So, all I need to have is a clear plan and that will guarantee my success?

Do I need a sales representative?





What Is This Site?

I'm an author. This is an author home page. It's about me, my life, my books, my hobbies, my home town, and anything else that applies to me and my life. 

Since starting my writing career in 1978, I have written 130+ novels, 2,000+ short stories, 6,000+ non-fiction articles (ALL are found on this site), a few dozen stage plays, 12,000+ blog posts, and a few comic book scripts for Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck (I only worked for Disney one year (in 2005) and only wrote a few stories for their Danish comic books).

NOTE: I ONLY write the Quaraun series (aka The Twighlight Manor series aka The Adventures of Quaraun the Insane). In recent years there has been an issue with impersonators trying to pass books off as written by me, notably several non-fiction and Erotica books. I write neither nonfiction nor Erotica.

ALL of my books and their cover arts are listed on my website here. Beware of any books you find claiming to be me. If the books are NOT listed here on my website, they are NOT my books.

In fiction works, I specialize in Weird/Bizarro Tales set in 40th century CyberPunk-Quasi Medieval, Cozy Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds featuring an intersex Elf and his Faerie husband main characters.  I DO NOT WRITE ANY OTHER SERIES - THIS SERIES IS THE ONLY ONE I WRITE.

Non-fiction (found ONLY here on my site) is daily updates of events in my life, and how-tos on how I write my novels.

I DO NOT write Erotica.

I DO NOT write books with HUMAN characters.

The Erotica books and books with Human characters, that you are finding, are written by scammers trying to impersonate me.

There is an ongoing FBI investigation into this matter. If you find any such books, please report them to FBI Agent Andy Drewer @207–774–9322

The FBI believes the people behind the impersonation accounts showing up, are relatives of the woman who murdered my son.

146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, is NOT FOR SALE.

And I'm sick of real estate agents who are too incompetent to research land ownership before they show up to stick a for sale sign in my yard.

The fact of the matter is, my son was murdered in 2013, and the friends and family of the murderer think it is funny to keep ILLEGALLY listing my land for sale, because apparently their child murdering bitch friend didn't hurt me enough by crippling me with a golf club, ripping my baby out of my 8 month pregnant belly and beating his brains out on the ground with a golf club.

Also, her friends and family like to gaslight me by doxing me on ufo and alien abduction forums, while pretending to be me, and trying to make it look like I believe in ufos or aliens, even though I think people who believe in ufos are raving lunatics and people who claim to be alien abductees are crazy. 

Worse, they've also taken to harassing my WW2 vet homeless friend, by calling HIM an alien, demon, or cryptid and sending alien crazy ufo nutjobs at try to "catch him".

So, yeah, my son was murdered and the murder's friends and family endlessly harass me, my friends, and my family both online and offline, and I'm not happy with it at all.

There is an ongoing FBI investigation into this matter.

The FBI is looking for information into:

  1. identifying my son's murderer, 
  2. identifying the scammers who listed my land for sale, 
  3. identifying the impersonators who pretend to be me both online and offline, 
  4. the harassers who are harassing the homeless man and sending the UFO nuts to harass him... 
  • If ANYONE tells you 146 Portland Ave Old Orchard Beach, Maine is for sale:, please report them to FBI Agent Andy Drewer @207–774–9322
  • If ANYONE tells you I believe in aliens, demons, or UFOS, please report them to FBI Agent Andy Drewer @207–774–9322
  • If ANYONE tells you my homeless friend is an alien, a demon, a cryptid, or named Etiole for sale:, please report them to FBI Agent Andy Drewer @207–774–9322


I'm going to repeat it because I'm tired of people showing up and making offers:

146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, is NOT FOR SALE.




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