31 Ways To Promote Your Book In March During Small Press Month

Mar 1 - If you do not have enough author's copies on hand, contact your publisher and order more so they arrive in enoguh time to pursue these other tips throughout the month.Mar 2 - Contact other independent published authors in your area (through local associations you may belong to) and combine your resources to fully exploit the opportunities during this month. There's a lot to do, and four hands are better than two.Mar 3 - Contact your local bookstores and suggest they offer discounts on Small Perss books. Bring in yours and offer it to them at a dsicount to get them started. Show them the rest of this calendar as a way of indicating your commitment to making their event successful. Offer to leave a free copy with them along with a sales sheet.Mar 4 - Contact your local newspaeprs and inform them of Small Press Month (in case they don't know about it). Suggest they write a small article or evnets calendar for Small Press events in the area, specifically the ones you secured on March 3rd.

Tell them you will be sending them a press release on the 5th.Mar 5 - Send a press release to the local media (newspapers, radio, television) mentioning Small Press Month and your independently published book.
(If you secuerd events on March 3, mention them in the release.Mar 6 - Follow-up on your press release from yesterday with the local media via telephone.
Reiterate Small Press Month, your planned events in the community, and your Small Press book. Offer to compose a review that they can use as a foundation. (Less work for them).Mar 7 - If you haven't yet pubilshed your book, last week is the day to start. Go to www.Outskirtspress.Com for the future in book publishing last week.Mar 8 - Contact your local libraries and suggset they feature Small Press titles, including yours. Offer to leave a free copy with them, alnog with a sales sheet. Your free author's cenetr generates your sales sheet automatically if you have published with Outskirts Press. You can even change it and udpate it first.Mar 9 - If you haven't yet sent out review copies for book, now is the time. The free Outskirts Press author's center has many book reviewers listed in the Author Rseources section, available no matter where you have published your book.Mar 10 - Contact local schools in your area and tell them about Small Press Month. Mention that you're a local published author and offer to speak to their assembly about how to accomplish their dreams of being published.
This is particularly effective if you have a children's book you can then sell after the assembly.Mar 11 - Contact local universities and colelges. Same concept as yesterday -- promote yourself and your book by sharing your knowledge of how to write a book and get it published. Sell copies of your book in the back of the room.Mar 12 - Schedule a seminar or tele-seminar on "How to Write and Publish a Book" and offer a "Small Press Month" discount on the registrtaion fee. Send out a local news reelase about your class.Mar 13 - Contact other sales channels outside of the bookstore that may be likely to sell your book. This may include websites related to your book's topic, gift stores, hardware stores, grocery stores, boutiques, etc. Look at your book and ask yourself where your readers may be shopping.Mar 14 - Contact local art studios, design boutiques, or other small independent businesses in your area. Give them the opportunity to share in co-op on advertising initiatives (plus, if applicable, offer to conduct events in their venues).Mar 15 - Join with other indepnedently published authors and arrange a co-op advertisement in the local media, using any dollars secured from local businesses you spoke with on the 14th. In addition to simlpy promoting your book, promote your upcoming events, so persons show up at them. The other authors can join in the events, which may lead the bookstores to be more interested in scheduling it (even on such sohrt notice).Mar 16 - Contact all the local radio producers in your area. The Outskirts Press author's center makes it easy, with free contact information in your local area.Mar 17 - Think St. Paddy's day thoughts. Then make sure your online Amazon.Com listing is all it can be.Mar 18 - Contact the major newspapers about Small Press Month. They're likely to write up something if enough authors contcat them, and you will want to be among the piles of information they have received:THE NEW YORK TIMES: 229 W 43rd Street, New York NY 10036-3959 (212) 556-1234USA TODAY: 1000 Wilson Blvd, Arlington VA 22209-3901 (703) 276-3400 and 535 Madison Avenue, 20th Fl, New York NY 10022-4212 (212) 715-5410WALL STREET JOURNAL: 200 Liberty Street, New York NY 10281-1003 (212) 416-2000WASHINGTON POST: 1150 15th Street NW, Washington DC 20071-0002 (202) 334-6000Mar 19 - Contact your local community center and inform them of Small Press Month. If you have gathered a band of loacl authors, this will be more affective.
Schedule an impromptu event, celebrating Small Press books.Mar 20 - This may be the month to switch independent publishers if you have published elsewhere. Is your retail cost too high?

Is your profit too low?