Online Book Promotions

 

Promotion by authors for authors.

I spend thousands of dollars a year on advertising, so you don’t have to…

 

Many publishers, with their resources stretched as thin as they are, don’t have enough time to pursue all opportunities for you, so you pretty much have to do it yourself.  ~ Margaret Atwood

 

BookClubBuddy.com gives authors a chance to keep both new and backlist books visible to readers as cover images rotate through every page of the site. BCB ranks high in search engine listings, and in many cases will provide  more online visibility than your own website.

We’re particularly keen on promoting small press books, as they often do not receive the exposure they deserve and yet contribute so much to the richness of our literary culture. We’re aware of how difficult it is for small presses to stretch their advertising budgets, so we’ve consciously kept our promotion package affordable.

Not only do we rotate your cover through the BookClubBuddy.com site, we also post your link on Facebook and Twitter when you first list, we also post it several times a week, all year. There really is nowhere else to obtain this kind of low cost coverage.

BookClubBuddy.com is designed to be helpful to both book clubs and individual readers. The more original and interesting you, as author, make your text and interviews, the more attention your book will attract. See Betty Jane Hegerat’s discussion of The Boy or We aim to provide readers with the inside information they want, so they come back again and again. In this way, you reach thousands of new readers, all year long. Some will click through to read about your book now; many others will be exposed to your name and cover, repeatedly, on BookClubBuddy.com, and  and that pays future dividends.

Think about it. When you  see articles about new books, which names interest you the most, those you remember reading about previously, or those you’ve never heard of? BookClubBuddy increases name recognition and raises your social media profile at the lowest possible cost.

Traffic Stats:

• Total unique visitors January 1, 2011 to January 1, 2012 = 219,364  
• Average annual impressions for the “Authors Only” rotating cover ad = 12, 350 
• Daily cost of full promotion = less than 28 cents/day

$100 promotional package for authors includes:

 

Other Author Resources:

Author Interview form

Getting 2 Know You questions for features

For Alberta Authors

*Subsidized prices and options for authors only.
Commercial advertisers please contact for rate sheet.