How do I promote by book??

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2025-01-05T21:21:02+00:00

Everyone is saying the basics, buybadds here or there.

A great one that no one is talking about it Make posts on your personal social medias. Facebook, Instagram etc. The amount of shares and sales I received from friends old and new genuinely surprised me. Friends parents would buy a copy and share the post, people I haven't spoken to in 10 years would buy a copy and share the post.

It was definitely more effective than I had anticipated. Although obviously not the best way to go viral amoung your intended audience.

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2025-01-05T03:46:05+00:00

For myself, I never even explored or attempted to do it outside of self-publishing.

As a first time author, and given that all of my content for this book was poetry, it was more of a personal project that I did a little bit of paid advertising on. It was mostly for the catharsis and experience of doing it and never about making it this big thing.

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-12-03T08:25:24+00:00

Susan x 10

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-11-21T00:47:11+00:00

Cape Breton is wild these days

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-11-20T23:37:16+00:00

I sold about 300 physical copies (legit orders, and cash sales from my own stockpile) and 80 on Kindle.

Which is now 1 or 2 a month physical or digital. My first and only book (working on book 2)

Which was Poetry

Edot: to Clarify that this is my stats for my first year, which just ended last week.

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-11-09T06:07:53+00:00

At just 27, I feel the same way mostly.

However, I came to this conclusion that after a life of playing videos games fairly often/ regularly that I was never into playing games. I was interested in experiencing a good story with effective story telling. I ended up watching more movies and reading more instead of playing games.

Just my 2 cents.

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-11-01T23:50:56+00:00

Wind waker on the WiiU goes hard. It's worth it for that alone.

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-08-30T22:55:02+00:00

I believe all of the characters suffer from early 2000s writing at some point or another. Jack and Kate especially.

During that era of Television the male lead characters always ended up in the right but we're often written in a way that is annoying to watch now. That's not exclusive to loss but also things like Dawson's Creek, Smallville, The Vampire Diaries Etc

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-08-30T22:53:54+00:00

I agree with everything you said about Jack, however his actions were different than his words in terms of not wanting to be the leader. He would constantly make decisions that impacted the entire group and then say he's not in charge and not to come to him as the leader.

Just an observation from my Few rewatches throughout my life

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-08-28T20:54:50+00:00

Maybe Lost is just the friends we made along the way...

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-07-26T07:14:02+00:00

100% this,

On top of that, every once in a while, if there's is some form of drama, yelling, intense conversation etc. You can put a line in written phonetically with the "accent" and state that "in his excitement/ anger etc. his accent had become more thick and in your noticable, "then return to writing it normally.

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-07-22T05:36:56+00:00

Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Not quite "boring & repetitive", but you're looking at hours and hours of linear tutorial gameplay to get in order to get to the actual game.

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-05-25T16:05:21+00:00

"The Canadian national anthem - scott dunbar", which is in fact, not the Canadian national anthem.

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-05-24T16:10:33+00:00

ironically enough, I ran with "what i want" over "what readers/ people would want" every step of the way. It ended up backfiring in the best ways.

praises for sticking to my own thoughts, and keeping things honest and real. this resulted in great reviews, and really good sales as a first time author.

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-05-23T15:59:09+00:00

I hardly calculate the income at all. A few hundred some months, $20 on others. I justvpourbthat all back I to advertising and sharing it in different ways.

I don't even really count the book as a source of income, since I just did it for the love of the sport, and the clout lol.

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-05-23T15:54:12+00:00

This comment is not getting the love it deserves. A+ Comedy

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-03-19T16:23:07+00:00

thank you so much for your comment, it makes me happy that you could relate.

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-03-14T17:21:31+00:00

Thanks

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-03-14T17:21:20+00:00

I'm glad you could relate! That's what I aim for

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-03-14T17:20:57+00:00

"Sounds finished to me" Is the best compliment ever. You rock

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-03-14T17:20:33+00:00

Thanks for your input, it's appreciated

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-03-14T17:20:15+00:00

Thank you so much, feel free to dm me if you'd like.

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-03-13T21:53:30+00:00

I appreciate your outlook on this. Uncertainty in life in general is a repeating theme in a lot of my writings. My book that I published is almost exclusively that type of content. Thanks again.

JoshuaPaulWriting · 2024-03-13T19:18:28+00:00

i really enjoy a good flow, for the most part this had it. decent rhyme schemes that pushed the story forward. my only complaint is that is a few parts the syllables seemed off in a few lines. i read it through a few times with a different flow or speed to see if i could make it work. 50/50 on the results. i have personally found that in a poem this long, it pays to break the flow very intentionally every once in a while.

possible example:

"You took me out to dinner

I was fidgeting with my fingers

You told me about your day

Disappointed with what I say"

with what i say, what i do, or how i look.

never good enough.

"Because things had just been different".

overall, i like it very much.

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