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A key thing about promotions is to write it from the perspective and for the benefit of the reader. I'm very interested in book promotion strategies. This arti
by _tom_ 4y ago
A key thing about promotions is to write it from the perspective and for the benefit of the reader.
I'm very interested in book promotion strategies. This article has nothing. It's about the author, the authors coworkers and their books. Nothing at all on actually promoting your books.
If you want people to read your work, it has to benefit them. If it doesn't, it won't get read or shared.
- cookie_monsta 4y agoAnd yet here it is on the front page of HN. Really, your comment seems unnecessarily harsh and condescending. You seem to feel cheated that there was nothing about promotion strategies but I don't see any promise of that, in the headline or the intro. Nonetheless, there were a couple of snippets in there - send plenty of emails, and get the author involved in self promotion basically. Having said that, she proceeded to... promote her books...