Thursday, May 8, 2014

The Audience is Listening

As a writer and speaker, if only in print, your words have value both to you and your audience. This doesn’t mean they’ll catch every word you throw. There may be some hiccups in understanding some things. Yet being heard in a traditional sense of publishing is no longer as huge a gain as gaining distribution and the ability to reach the reader personally, on a personal level. In fact there are various forums and platforms to distribute your work to the reader. Many authors search and identify these routes t be published. Yet few ever consider where is my audience listening ?

I don’t mean the brand names or traditional houses. Where does my reader hangout and find books to read? While grateful platforms like Createspace and Amazon, Blurb and Smashwords as well as LuLu exist, their having made writing and publishing easier and more profitable does nothing, for an author if you don’t know. How or where to market your book? Where is your audience listening?

This is an important step in the process of being heard and publishing printed works. You need to be in the place or places people are hearing what you have to say. Or to be heard you should be where they will most likely listen to you for a full sales minute.
Not simply to promote your book, but promote you as a serious addition to the discussion. They’re there listening you can join the conversation, becoming known, and build a loyal listening audience for the next book or series to come.

It may seem obvious, yet reality is. Writers write. Some may read. Some may edit. Most will critique endlessly. A few will buy books , as entertainment, or education in most cases. But to be heard, to be a successful writer publisher, the independent author needs to find the platform his/ her audience enjoys and maximize it. Stay tuned to your audience and they will stay tuned to your writings.


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Thursday, May 1, 2014

The Key to Being Heard

Distribution is the key to having a voice in as many places as possible. With that, I’d like to personally welcome Deeper Shopping to the journey of books. You find a link to these very fine people further down the page. I might add they are a fine venue for authors, especially Christian writers, to get their voice further out and be heard. They also share two qualities I think are necessary for any author to find success. One being location and the other being accessibility – as a southern (U.S.) writer. I think finding a local distributor is a unique find especially in publishing. I also believe being able to reach the distributor and being kept informed is absolutely necessary to being out there.
 
I've found both qualities in this site, and I believe both qualities to be great jewels in gaining sales for your work. Quite naturally when I heard of these folks as being open to featuring independent authors I had to give them a try. I must say I have not been disappointed.

To this end, I welcome them aboard the book journey - Deeper Shopping 

Thank you for all your help
R.L. Toney

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