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Book Marketing & Launch Operations

Audience, channels, and the math behind a profitable launch.

Chapter i·What this topic covers

Book marketing is the long work of finding the small number of readers who will actively recommend your book. It is largely a research problem before it is a creative problem: who reads books like yours, where do they talk about books, and what convinces them to try a new author. Most authors over-invest in ad spend and under-invest in audience research; reversing that ratio is the single highest-leverage move in indie publishing.

What you’ll find here

  • Audience research, keyword discovery, and competitive positioning.
  • Newsletter building, reader magnets, and email sequences that convert.
  • Paid ads on Amazon, Facebook, and BookBub: when they work and when they don't.
  • BookTok, Bookstagram, and book-blogger outreach without sounding spammy.

Who this is for

Indie authors, hybrid authors, and small presses running their own marketing.

In WriteLoom

WriteLoom's Market studio holds comps, reviewer outreach, ad copy, and a 90-day calendar in one place, so your marketing plan grows out of the same project as the book.

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