So The Book Is Out & You Really Want To Support It: Here’s the Four Step Plan
Daughter Of Blood, The Wall Of Night Book Three was published last week — and a few people have asked, in realtime and via email:
“How can I support Daughter Of Blood in the world? And make sure there will be more Helen Lowe books published in future?”
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Here’s How: 🙂
1. Buy the Book: The surest support for this book and ensuring there are many more books to come is to Buy the Book — if you can afford to.
And don’t forget that books make great gifts as well, especially when you’re gifting a story you love yourself to someone you think will appreciate it just as much.
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2. Request the Book — i.e. Don’t Forget the Library: If you can’t afford to buy the book, or even if you can, consider requesting it at your local library.
Not only does this encourage libraries to stock the book, but it also helps build readership and support for the series. (Yay!)
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3. Spread the Word: If you enjoy a story, tell your friends and fellow readers.
Word of mouth is still an incredibly powerful way to support a book and/or series.
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4. Do a review — especially on the big book sites like Amazon, because as Courtney Schafer said when her new book, Labyrinth of Flame, came out:
“If you wish to leave an honest review on Amazon, that would be wonderful. If you’re wondering why reviews there are such a big deal to authors, it’s because new reviews push the book up in the ranking and recommendation algorithms, thereby helping new readers to more easily discover the series.” ~ Courtney Schafer
And remember that reviews don’t have to be long and indepth (ie burdensome for you to do) — short and snappy can also work!
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Buy, Request, Recommend, Review —
four simple ways in which you can support Daughter of Blood, and any book you enjoy — should you wish to do so.
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And tomorrow—I thought we might go for one of those deleted scenes. Waddya reckon?
Hi Helen.
There’s already a few good reviews and ratings on Goodreads. Well done. Looks to me like the Goodreads entry (multiple editions, etc.) may need tidying up a bit. Don’t forget to let me know if I can help. Keep up your great work.
Les
Hi Les–that’s good to know re the reviews. I generally don’t look at reviews until the initial dust has settled and there are enough up there to get ‘perspective’ (if you know what I mean.)
With respect to the multiple editions, do you mean US and UK? I am probably going to be flat out for another week or so, but after that may have time to ‘focus’ and get it sorted–probably by requesting aid from a helpful GR librarian. 🙂
No prob. Just had another look and there’s a couple of ebook (Kindle and “other”) editions there as well as the UK/US paperback editions. I could clean it up to have just the two paperback editions plus the Kindle edition listed. Not that it really makes any difference to most people ‘cos it’s all the same general book info.
I had it pre-ordered on my Nook, and devoured it there. Then, that pretty cover jumped of the shelf into my hands at B&N yesterday. I wish the US book sellers had all the new covers.
But, Oh, Helen … that ending!! I’m still reeling!
KB