Book Promotion Quotes

“The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.”
― Mickey Spillane

“People can’t read a book if they don’t know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published.”
― Jo Linsdell

“Book buying is a relationship activity, and you need a means to develop relationships with readers and new fans of your work”
― Barb Drozdowich, The Author's Guide to Working With Book Bloggers

“You can write the most wonderful book in the world. But if people don’t know about your book they won’t know to buy it.”
― Madi Preda, How To Promote and Market Your Book

“Lemat's agent says to him: y duty to you, first and foremost, is make sure you have a career, a prosperous one. I know authors always want to pander to their more artistic leanings, but this is a business after all. You have to do something to pay the bills so you can keep on writing. If you wanted to be an author just for the sake of expressing your thoughts, you could have done that by staying self-published, am I correct? but that's not what you wanted. That's not why you penned Killing Jesus. You wanted to get out there and swim in a bigger pond, didn't you? Well, here you are. Welcome to the blooming ocean.”
― Henry Mosquera

“My duty to you, first and foremost, is make sure you have a career, a prosperous one. I know authors always want to pander to their more artistic leanings, but this is a business after all. You have to do something to pay the bills so you can keep on writing. If you wanted to be an author just for the sake of expressing your thoughts, you could have done that by staying self-published, am I correct? but that's not what you wanted. That's not why you penned Killing Jesus. You wanted to get out there and swim in a bigger pond, didn't you? Well, here you are. Welcome to the blooming ocean.”
― Henry Mosquera, Status Quo

“Think of your book’s title as a headline for a breaking news story. For as long as newspapers (and now internet news content) have been around, diligent scribes have been searching their thesauruses for the right combination of power words for headlines as a way to draw in readers’ curiosity…”
― Scott Lorenz, Book Title Generator: A Proven System in Naming Your Book

“If you would like to promote your book, first forget about words "traffic", "marketing" and "social media". You are looking for real humans after all.”
― Joel Stafford, The First 100 Days of Your Book: Book Marketing for Self-Published Authors

“Throughout this book, it is emphasized that through your promotional efforts, YOU are the one who is going to make the greatest difference in the success of your book."--Jan Yager, HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR BOOK (Square One, 2023), Introduction, page 5 in paperback edition”
― Jan Yager, How to Promote Your Book: A Practical Guide to Promoting Your Own Title

“Writing is more than a catharsis or a craft.

It's a business.

Don't neglect marketing.”
― Heather Holmes