I'm Angie, a Malaysian living in Singapore, and I love Southeast Asia so much!
Even if I have only visited 6 of the 11 countries here. Perhaps being a small-town girl transitioned into a big-city woman gave me an opportunity to experience the regional charms from natural forest to concrete jungle, and the easy access to the local food culture put me right at home no matter where I go.
Over the past few years, I had the chance to meet a few long-term travellers from beyond, touring Southeast Asia. Often they would tell me that their favourite part about the region is the less touristy places, where they could put themselves right into the local experiences. I almost get what they mean - when I was researching for a Bali trip, I was so sick of repetitive contents about the same destinations and sights that I decided to forget about it, rented a scooter, and went about with my own exploration and schedule. Best decision ever made.
Bali aside, I began to think: what about everywhere ...
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I'd love to learn from any folks here who are also authors about best practices / efforts for book sales. Have a book releasing soon and any insights appreciated for this first-time author.
Where did you see your best ROI? What were the mktg / promo / publicity efforts that worked or failed? Thank you for any and all advice!
I'm guessing you are talking about self-publishing. My partner and I were commissioned by a publisher to write a guidebook to the D-Day Landing sites/memorials/etc for this year's 80th anniversary, so most of the publicity was done by their marketing dept. But one thing that helped was arranging talks at local bookshops. Many bookshops have a programme of promo talks. If they are already stocking your book or are prepared to do so, you can ask them what kind of deal they might offer. Or you can do your own. Book a space, send out invitations, take plenty of copies and a POS app like Sumup.
Thanks Alastair! My book is through a publisher and they are doing some marketing and PR but also wanted to see what I could do as well for better sales. Am definitely contacting local bookshops for promo talks. Thank you :)
Yep. I did. happy to help if I can, but I just learned by doing and should have done/be doing more.
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No not yet but that may sound interesting.
Did you have any luck with this?
Some. Connected with one other member offline to hear more about their experience. Happy to hear your thoughts too.