FREE Ways to Promote Your Book

With the Internet age upon us, writers now have more free and low cost ways than ever to market and promote their published books. Some obvious tactics include the use of Twitter and Facebook as well as starting your own Blog. Book widgets, badges, and other tools also make it easier than ever for a writer to promote themsleves online absolutely FREE.

Ways to Market Your Writing: Sites and Tools

• Bookbuzzr: Free widget that allows writers to upload preview of book and then be installed on any site, Blog, etc.
  
  
• Twitterlit: Free Twitter service that takes the first line of your book and distributes it to thousands of other Twitter users.
  
  
• Bookhitch: Promote your book, and website for free. 
  
  
• The Writer's Life: A one stop directory of promotion links including links for author interviews, book review sites, websites to promote or announce your book and an event listing website. 
  
  
• Bookmouth: Blog with lots of advice and resources on how to promote your novel or writing work. 
  
  
• Book Marketing Update: Book marketing and book promotion advice from John Kremer. 
  
  
• How to market your book online: Good advice from someone who is running a successful POD business. Other interesting articles.. 
  
  
• How to Market Your Self-Published Book: Some basic tips on what to do to market your book. 
  
  
• Ways to Market Your e-Book: Advice from an E-book author. 
  
  
• Getting a Buzz On: Article from the Book Standard on how publishers are turning online to market their books.
  
  
• The Italian American Press: Promoting Self-Published Italian American Books, Sci-Fi Classics, First Editions, Rare and Old Books, Self-Help Paperbacks, Used Writing and Teaching Texts, Free E-Books, and Collectible Sheet Music. 
  
  
• Book Promotion: Good series of articles on promoting your book from Writers Write. 

•  Market-Your-Book.com Watch the video and learn how you can use a proven, effective system to promote your blog and book(s). 
  

Promote your book by entering writing competitions: 

• Creative Writing Contests: information about creative writing contests, literary magazines theme issues, writing residencies, etc.
  

• Creative Writing Contests: information about creative writing contests, literary magazines theme issues, writing residencies, etc.



• Writing Contest Database Good list of writing contests.



• Author Network Writing Contests List of about 20 contests.



• Google Directory: Writing Contests: List of approx. 50 contests.



• Google Directory: Short Story Contests List of about 30 short story contests. 
  
  
• Writers of thje Future Quarterly contest and pays hefty fees to winners and provides publication in sci-fi anthology. 
  
  
• Save Our Short Story List of short story competition.