Successfully Marketing Your Novel in the 21st Century

The rise of e-books, loss of bookstores, disappearance of the big publishers’ midlists, improvements in self-publishing technology and the advent of social media have turned the book business on its head. One thing has remained the same. Novels must be promoted and marketed if an audience is to find them. Although it has never been easier to get a book published, it has also never been harder to get a book sold. Providing guidelines on how to drive book sales to a whole new level, this up-to-date book is crammed with tips and tricks of the book trade gathered from the authors’ own experiences as an author.

Austin S. Camacho handles media relations for the Department of Defense and writes articles for military newspapers and magazines. His short stories have been featured in four anthologies including Dying in a Winter Wonderland and he is featured in African American Mystery Writers. He is the author of the Hannibal Jones Mystery series and the Stark and O’Brien series. He lives in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Sandra Bowman is the marketing director at Intrigue Publishing. She is the author of Let Me Say This and Let Me Say This, Again which are written under her pen name, B. Sawngin Webster. She lives in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.