Get Your First 1,000 Readers
How to get your book in the hands of your audience
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As if writing weren’t hard enough, we have to market ourselves too?
We’re writers. We want to write--not market. Marketing’s not as hard as you think, and it will help you build what is commonly called your author platform. And you need that to sell your books.
How can you actually connect with your readers? Get your books into more hands? It’s a challenge, especially when 3,500-odd books are published every day.
In this 45-minute presentation from Picture Book Summit 2015, Katie Davis’ shares how she's used her platform and marketing to sell over 755,000 copies of her traditionally published books and launch two books at #1 on Amazon and how you can follow the sames steps to getting your books in the hands of more readers!
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Katie Davis is an award-winning writer/illustrator whose published work includes kidlit genres from picture books to middle grade to young adult. Her first picture book, Who Hops? turns 24 this year, and Kindergarten Rocks! has been a perennial favorite since 2005. Katie critiques manuscripts twice a month through her Writers’ Block membership, and is the former Director of the Institute of Children’s Literature and Institute for Writers. Her books have sold over a million copies and her two guides for writers, How To Promote Your Children’s Book and How to Write a Children’s Book, both debuted at #1 on Amazon.
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