35 FREE Sites Where You Can Promote Your Kindle Book.

   Yes, writing is hard. Marketing is harder. And the more time you can spend on writing and the less on marketing the better right? So I’ve assembled 35 free websites where you can submit your kindle e book to be promoted to their subscribers.

   Plus I’ve also assembled 28 facebook sites that allow you to promote your novel to all their followers. Some are as small as 50 while others are as large as 15,000. So it may definitely be worth your while.

   Here’s another point to consider. Like it or not the holidays are coming and it’s the biggest consumer event of the year. People surf the net looking for items to purchase and one of the places they shop at the most is Amazon.com

   So if they find their way to your website why not offer them the ability to purchase a Amazon gift card as an affiliate? This way whenever they use your link to go to Amazon to purchase something there, you’ll get a commission. Here’s the link:

 http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=as_li_qf_br_sr_tl?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=ur2&node=2238192011&tag=zackaryrichar-20

   This is especially helpful if you have an affiliate link to your book and they use that to buy a copy and then continue shopping (perhaps purchase some jewelry where you’ll also get a commission)

   On October 18-19 I will be offering the first book of my very popular series ‘Revolution in America: Noon’s Rise to Power for free. Here’s the link:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004EBTGZG/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=zackaryrichar-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=B004EBTGZG&adid=177DW5YQ4NHRHPEK0MXV&

   So the deal is they go to get my book for free during the promotion and while there they do a little holiday shopping. Perhaps purchase a dining room set, a nice pontoon boat or a big screen TV or computer. I don’t make a dime on the book but I make quite a bit in commission from their shopping plus, it turns out that they like my book so much they buy the next in the series from my site which of course, has the affiliate link.

   Don’t you just love it when things work out in your favor?

   So back to the 35 free sites

   I set up my free promotion in every one of the sites listed so I know they work. Try to schedule your promotion as far in advance as possible so the sites will have sufficient time to get your book in front of their subscribers.

   Speaking of which, the links to the 35 free promotional websites as well as the facebook promo sites are only available to my subscribers.

   I send out a newsletter about once a month (most times less than that) I don’t spam and I don’t give out email addresses. Most times my newsletter is about how to sell more books on kindle and writing tips. I’m a writer whose actually written a book on how to write, publish and market your book into a best seller so that's what I usually write about.

   Again, the holidays are coming and now is the time to get your books in front of the book buying public and the 35 free websites and 28 facebook book sites can certainly help get the word out.

   So simply scroll up and enter your name and email address in the blue box on the upper right side (ZACK'S TIPS) and click submit and I’ll get it right out to you.  

To my 20,000 readers

   Today my blog received its 20,000 hit, meaning 20,000 (and likely more by the time you read this) people have chosen to click on my blog and read my posts.

   Although my blog has been active for less than 2 years, over that time I have come in contact and have conversed with many fellow writers, marketers and a number of fun and interesting people.

   And for those who look forward to reading my posts and are a bit annoyed at the lengthening of time between them, I apologize. In my defense I can assure you the scarcity of new posts is not due to laziness but to the rapidly increasing workload involved, especially when it come to writing, publishing and marketing books.

   To my fellow writers out there it has been brought to my attention that if you are a relatively unknown author, any book you write should not exceed 300 pages. Because the number of pages your book has that exceeds 300 the less likely someone with take a chance on buying it. This has nothing to do with the price. People will pay top dollar for a novel from a favorite author. The problem is the amount of TIME the reader is willing to spend on a book by an author they’ve never read before.

   I’m sure you’ve picked up a lengthy novel and realized a third of the way in that the author isn’t very talented but you’ve invested this much time already so you might as well slog through the rest just to is if anything interesting happens on the way there.    

   Usually nothing does and so a significant period of your time has been wasted. 

   

   However, this also hurts novelists who are quite good but whose books are a bit on the lengthy side. (For example, my Noon books weight in at around a little under 600 pages each.)

   It has been suggested that if your sales aren't as good as they should be and your book has a high page count, but good reviews (again like my Noon series) you should break it into smaller books, serialize them and lower the price.  (This of course only applies to eBooks)

   Also take another look at your cover. Both my Noon books had professional covers that could hold their own against any Grisham or Turow novel. Very professional looking and respectable.

   The problem is that my books don’t have the advantage of extensive advertising and the backing of a massively large publishing house. So I had to reconfigure my covers to be more aggressive. Yep. Respectable and professional is out and WTF is that??! has now stepped up to the plate.

   Richard Nixon, the consummate politician once said that in order to get noticed, take a very radical stance at first and then once you collect followers slowly move toward the center.

   I believe the new covers will, if nothing else, catch your eye.

   

   Here are the two original covers now retired.

    And here are the new covers with the original Noon: The Rise to Power being split into Revolution in America: Noon’s Rise to Power and Revolution in America: The Night of the Scarecrows. And with Noon 2: The Resurgence being split into Revolution in America: Resurgence and Revolution in America: Unknown Soldier.

   I also believe the new covers better reflect the stories inside. The Noon series was never just about Noon anymore than the America Revolution was only about George Washington. It encompasses a number of flawed yet engaging characters and how they react to a very dangerous environment where the average person’s life is in almost constant danger.

   The first 280 page Noon’s Rise to Power is scheduled to be a free download on Oct 17, 18 & 19 (The reason I scheduled it for three days instead of one is because I have had problems with free promotion dates in the past and will likely kill the last day if everything goes as it’s supposed to.

   So if you want to download a free copy on those dates he’s the link:

http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-In-America-Noons-ebook/dp/B004EBTGZG/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1380913519&sr=1-3&keywords=zackary+richards

  Then again, since its only $2.99 and you likely have a rainy weekend ahead of you, maybe you’d rather not wait and download it now.

   But then you wonder, okay I can easily swing the $2.99 but is this guy really any good? Are his stories worth investing my valuable free time reading?

   The 20,000 readers of this blog seem to think so.