If we have finished a work and we have published it independently, the work of promoting and disseminating our work is our responsibility for better and for worse.
To the task that involves moving through social networks or appearing in literary blogs, making a presentation of your book not only becomes a somewhat more human way of spreading your novel in Internet times, but it can also become the ideal occasion to get new and potential readers.
If you have just published a book and are looking to disseminate it, do not miss these tips for presenting a book.
The right place
When we think about the place in which to hold our presentation we believe that this should be a bookstore, library or any minimally literary place. However, the main thing will be to find that place that makes you feel comfortable and whose owners agree to celebrate your presentation. These places can be from a bar that you usually frequent weekly to that herbalist where they will appreciate presenting a book on healthy living.
Previous promotion
If you want the whole world to know about your presentation, an event on Facebook and a tweet linking to the local newspaper. Investing some money in printing colorful posters (and hanging ourselves in strategic places), sending emails to local radios and media or leaving cards in libraries or other conducive environments are some examples of the necessary promotion to carry out days before the presentation.
Something different
If during the promotion you have provided a web address or a Facebook event, add an extract of your work so that future attendees know what they will find. Organizing a contest during the event, adding music related to the book (how about the 2001 tune for a science fiction book?), Or reciting some of the texts from the play are some of the ideas.
Presenting your book
You must be clear that the presentation of a book is similar to a presentation or conference, so you should put all the meat on the grill and be useful as well as convincing when you talk about your book. Start by talking about yourself, about the process of creating the work, do not reveal too many details and try to link the presentation with other related topics that in turn create some interest or may be of help to the attendees (see writing on your own, benefits of self-publishing, etc.)
Future readers
Reducing the price of the book during a presentation will be essential if you intend to sell more than one copy and keep the attendees happy. In addition, it would not be bad to start a conversation with them in a more personal way, approach, ask, answer and act naturally before some assistants who will be better treated as new friends instead of potential clients.
These tips for presenting a book They will help you define an event that will be a boost for you and for your book. Do not skimp on creativity, means to get your book to more people and, above all, be yourself, the most essential rule in a time when the success of a book is linked more than once to the image that the writer himself forges.
You are a writer? Have you ever organized a presentation for your book?
Thanks Alberto. Your tips for presenting a book are useful.