Are you looking for new ways to engage readers before your next book is available for sale? Believe it or not, you can create a public Book Inspiration Pinterest Board to start telling readers about your book before it becomes available for sale. Look at it this way, it’s important to market your book before it becomes available right? While many authors do this by posting excerpts to their blog, and yes, you should do this too, you have to find other ways to draw interest to your story. One of those ways is to show your readers your inspiration board for the book you’re working on. So, how do you do this? It’s easy!

1. Create a Pinterest account if you don’t already have one.

2. Sign in to your Pinterest account.

3. Click on Create a Board.

4. Name your board. Since you want readers to know this is the inspiration board for your book, you should name your board something that has your book title in it. For example: The Lord by Laura Tolomei Inspiration Board.

5. Search for photos that represent, people, clothing styles, religions, planets, cities, towns, nationalities and such from your book. You can …

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2016 is bringing new marketing and promotion techniques, and for those authors who pay attention, it can mean big bucks! Authors who pay attention to marketing and promotion trends and then utilize these new techniques in creative ways are going to make more book sales. I’m not suggesting that you should pick up any and every new marketing and promotions technique that comes along, but I am suggesting that you pay attention to new and revised ones.

And implement them when you can like I did with the ReScue Series!

In 2016, one of the big new marketing techniques is sponsored content. Now before you think, “Oh, that’s just ads, I’m already doing those with my promos to groups and author spotlights,” think again. A new trend that is showing up is to market and promote without seeming to. That’s right, without seeming to. It’s becoming clearer in the New Year that if you can do this, then you can sell more of your product, in this case your books.

So, what exactly is sponsored content then? Sponsored content are blogs or posts that offer more than pure advertisement. Let me give you an example. Let’s say you’ve written …

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[image:image-0]Only one rule: never fall in love. But the sex and blood is just too good to pass up. So what to do? Blood and sex are the only fair game he, the hunter, allows me, his prey, to have in our passionate chase through time and space. And for his sake, I’ve had more lives than I care to count. From one life to the next, I played his savage game, hungering for him in a way no amount of blood or sex could ever satisfy me. But not anymore! So how to beat him at his own game and get away with it?

Don’t miss the exciting prequel to Tasting Leon’s Mark, now available!

AUTHOR: Laura Tolomei

SERIES: ReScue Book 1

FACEBOO;K: ReScue Series

GOODREADS: ReScue Series

“I never promised anyone everlasting love or a long relationship for that matter. If they had expectations, it was entirely their problem, not mine. To me, it meant noth besides fun in bed and some extra excitement during the business hours, nothing more.” His eyes flashed. “I certainly wouldn’t get all emotional …

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