Market Your Book with a Postcard, Part 2 of 2: Book Marketing Tip, 8/08

Shel Horowitz’s Book Marketing Tip of the Month, Volume 2, #2, August 2008
Market Your Book with a Postcard, Part 2 of 2
What Should Your Postcard Include

Front side:
Your gorgeous book cover, in full color (Note: companies like Modern Postcard, Tu-Vets, and VistaPrint make this easy and cheap. VistaPrint will even accept back sides done in MS Word.)

Back side, left

  • Title and author
  • Brief enticements such as endorsements, review quotes, awards, mini-synopsis
  • Ordering information for individuals
  • Ordering information for bookstores and libraries
  • Adequate whitespace and font size for easy, comfortable reading

Back side, right
Blank space for personal or stickered message and address

(Shel Horowitz’s latest book, Grassroots Marketing for Authors and Publishers, is his third in a row to win an award. Order at http://www.grassrootsmarketingforauthors.com/ )

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