From bestselling author, J.A. Kazimer, comes a collection of Nerdy Novelist Guides (five in all) created to help writers with publishing options, getting an agent, selling or self-publishing manuscripts, networking at conferences, social media and booksignings, going ape with guerilla marketing ideas, and finally leveraging YouTube with promotions that go beyond book trailers.
Sell more books with these handy guides.
The Nerdy Novelist’s Guide to Traditional Publishing: Learn How to Get a Book Deal
The lessons inside will help you embrace traditional publishing and in turn, have the industry embrace you. These easy techniques, perfected by a true nerdy novelist (*waves*), will show you how to become a published author rather than just a writer, as well as spark your creativity as you move forward through the process. The guide gives you a rundown of the traditional route to publication. We will look at how to query an agent, how to write a
synopsis, and what to expect after you sign with an agent and then with a publisher.
The Nerdy Novelist’s Guide to Indie Publishing: Learn to Publish and Make Money on Your Own
The lessons inside will help you embrace indie publishing and in turn, have the readers embrace you. This guide, perfected by a true nerdy novelist (*waves*), will show you how to become a published author rather than just a writer, as well as spark your creativity as you move forward through the process. The manual runs down of the indie/self-publishing route to publication. We’ll look at how to format a manuscript for upload, how to write killer blurb, how to find/create great cover art as well as professional editing and DIY formatting on a budget.
The Nerdy Novelist’s Guide to Networking: Sell More Books & Yourself
This handy guide will teach you how to network with other writers and readers at conventions, conferences, and booksignings as well as on social media. These easy techniques, perfected by a true writer-nerd (*waves*), cover how and what to say in order to sell your books as well as yourself at any function, even the dreaded elevator pitch. Never feel awkward again. Okay, never feel awkward again while networking with fellow writers or readers. I can’t do anything about those times when you trip over your own feet, spill coffee down your shirt, or worse, walk around with a whole spinach salad in your teeth.
The Nerdy Novelist’s Guide to Guerilla Marketing: Enough Monkeying Around with Poor Sales
Though it may sound like a bunch of bananas, Guerilla marketing is anything but. What it is, is a low-cost, unconventional kind of promotion that uses your own creativity to market yourself and your books. This guide will help you embrace marketing, and fall in love with self-promotion. No, really. I promise you will love it. And want to spend time doing it. These easy techniques, perfected by a true nerdy novelist (*waves*), will show you how to become a guerilla marketer, as well as spark your creativity, nurturing that marketing monkey inside every writer.
The Nerdy Novelist’s Guide to Going Beyond Book Trailers: Marketing Books & Making Money on YouTube
In this guide, we’ll examine your goals and expectations for YouTube, as well as how to meet them and whether book trailers even make sense as a means of promotion, best practices for gaining subscribers, and most importantly, how tomake money as an author on the platform.
