What should authors post before their book is published?
- Pre-launch posting builds the audience that buys at launch.
- Share process: writing, editing, the journey, the messy middle.
- Share themes and questions the book explores.
- Tease the reader promise and the comps that place the book.
- Reveal launch assets — cover, blurb, preorder — as milestones.
Before publication, post content that builds an audience rather than sells a product that does not exist yet: your process (writing, editing, the journey), the themes and questions the book explores, your reader promise, the comps that place it, and your launch assets as they arrive (cover reveal, blurb, preorder link). The pre-launch window is for earning followers and trust, so when the book is available there is an audience ready to buy.
Chapter i·Why it matters
A launch only converts an audience that already exists, and the audience is built in the months before, not the week of. Pre-launch content gives followers reasons to care — the process, the themes, the cover reveal — so the eventual ask lands on warm relationships rather than cold strangers. Authors who start at launch are marketing to no one; those who post for months arrive at release day with a crowd.
Chapter ii·What to include
- Process posts: writing, revision, and the journey.
- Theme posts on the questions the book explores.
- The reader promise, teased.
- Comps that signal who the book is for.
- Launch-asset milestones: cover reveal, blurb, preorder.
- Consistent presence over months, not a launch-week burst.
Chapter iii·Example
For six months before release, an author posts about her research trips, the theme of inherited silence at the book's core, and eventually her cover reveal and preorder link. By the time the book launches, several thousand followers have watched it come together and feel invested. Her launch-day post converts because it lands on an audience she spent half a year building, not on strangers.
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