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It’s the end of the month, which means my book sales stats will again be reset to zero. As I’ve mentioned many times before, it’s a little depressing to start each new month from scratch. Sometimes I think it would be nicer if they just kept the numbers going.

That said, I sold a pretty fair number of books this month. It helped that I ran two promotions and that Kindle Nation Daily gave me extra free publicity by presenting me with an interview by a fifth grader and then publishing it on their site.

I’ve also just finished up with my two-month long marketing frenzy and I am anxious, really anxious, to start back up on my latest Dystopian series. I finished the first draft of the first book back in January and have been letting it stew and simmer for the past six weeks. I’ve fleshed out the characters, setting, and plot and am ready to jump head first back into this one.

My marketing frenzy included downloading long samples of each of my novels to many popular writing sites. I don’t outright solicit my books, but do make mention at the end of the sample that the whole book is available. This seems to be working as my sales have continued to increase even weeks after my promotions ended. The sites keep a counter of readers and collectively, on all sites, I’ve had @ 9,000 reads in the last week. Not bad.

Here is a list of those sites. All of them are free, easy to download, and get great traffic. Do not spam the sites with self-promotion or you will be removed. These sites get readers, use them.

Nothingbinding.com

Scribd.com

Writing.com

Writers.net

Book daily.com

Published.com

Bookhitch.com

Writetobreathe

Worthyofpublishing.com

Wringroom.com

Bookmatchers.com

Writerscafe.org

Bookpleasures.com

Wattpad.com

ABCtales.com

Fictionpress.com

Shelfari.com

Authonomy.com

Ficwad.com

As I now plunge back into my latest book, I am still dedicated to placing writing samples on at least three new sites a week and will continue to update my existing samples. The more you update your samples the higher you will be placed on their new additions list. Good luck.

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Interesting, thanks for the tips. It seems like promoting takes up so much time I haven't been able to start my next book.

Hi Neil,

Thanks for the useful sample sites. I'll certainly give some of them a try. Like you, I find it depressing when those blank screens stats come up again each month! I agree with Anita, so much time is spent promoting its hard to find time to actually write.

There is a publisher that works with self published authors to get them published online and generate sales. Check them out at

I was able to get published thru them and I am selling about 500 books a month now, where before I sold like 2.

Jeff

Nice list. Thanks for adding. Can you tell us which ones worked the best for you?

Still too soon to tell. I know my samples are getting a lot of reads, though.

That's great. Congrats. Just signed up on Nothingbinding.com, Bookdaily.com and Published.com.

Nice list. I'll try this later on.

Neil wrote: "It’s the end of the month, which means my book sales stats will again be reset to zero. As I’ve mentioned many times before, it’s a little depressing to start each new month from scratch. Sometimes..."

thankyou so much for all the tips very kind of you, congrats on your book I'd like to check it out

Neil wrote: "It’s the end of the month, which means my book sales stats will again be reset to zero. As I’ve mentioned many times before, it’s a little depressing to start each new month from scratch. Sometimes..."

Neil - Thanks for the list! I'm going to give it a try too.

Jeff wrote: "There is a publisher that works with self published authors to get them published online and generate sales. Check them out at

I was able to get published thru th..."

that made me smile 'sold like 2' :) thanks for the tip im going to look it up. does it cost to advertise with them?

Thank you so much for the tip! I'm going to get started on this tonight!

I'm trying to post excerpts and I'm feeling overwhelmed. I can't figure out how to do it on NB and I'm also on Scribd trying to figure it out too. I'm having a stressed out meltdown trying to figure this out. *deep breath*

Becca,

It's easy. Just follow the directions.

Neil wrote: "Becca,

It's easy. Just follow the directions."

Thank you. I"m still working on the list. I never did figure out where to put my excerpt on NB, but I'll revisit it and try to figure it out.

Hi Neil

Thanks for this - a really interesting approach. I have been pursuing lots of marketing avenues, all of which worked really well for my first book - but this wasn't something that I had thought of. For my new book which is about to be released, I was looking for some alternatives, and this sounds like a really great idea. I'm going to give it a try! Thanks again.

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