{"id":1805,"date":"2014-10-29T10:13:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T17:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lentari.com\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2014-10-29T10:34:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T17:34:12","slug":"marketing-for-indie-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/?p=1805","title":{"rendered":"Marketing for Indie Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re an Indie Author then chances are you&#8217;ve asked yourself the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do I go about getting my manuscript self-published?<\/li>\n<li>What do I do about the cover?<\/li>\n<li>Now that I&#8217;ve published\/released my book, what now?\u00a0 How do I attract a following?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was asked (&amp; I accepted!) to be a part of the &#8220;Marketing SFF&#8221; group spearheaded by fellow authors Lindsay Buroker and Joseph Lallo.\u00a0 What we (plan to) do is interview other authors and ask them what they&#8217;ve done, or are doing, to achieve the success that they have.\u00a0 What&#8217;s important to them?\u00a0 How did they make their covers?\u00a0 What type of marketing have they done?<\/p>\n<p>Thus far we have learned about the importance of editing, selecting the right book cover, how to find an editor, how to build up a fan base, what NOT to do when finding a publisher, and so on.\u00a0 My turn in the chair happened last night.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t mind hearing my boring voice drone on and on then I would encourage you to have a listen!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aUBItzcS3-8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yep, that&#8217;s me.\u00a0 Our hope is to help our fellow indiw authors avoid our mistakes, take advantage of our advice, and release a good quality book.\u00a0 For those that&#8217;d prefer to download just the audio, here&#8217;s the link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/marketingsff\/Jeffrey_Poole.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download mp3 audio for Jeffrey M. Poole&#8217;s interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re an Indie Author then chances are you&#8217;ve asked yourself the following questions: How do I go about getting my manuscript self-published? What do I do about the cover? Now that I&#8217;ve published\/released my book, what now?\u00a0 How do I attract a following? I was asked (&amp; I accepted!) to be a part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,170,70,48,74],"tags":[34,196,69,174,50,163,173,172,197,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1808,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/1808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.authorjmpoole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}