hwatom.blogg.se - 2014 Writer's Market by Robert Lee Brewer

Make sure you and your publisher work together to target a few of the major media outlets, even if they are long shots. You can’t make any of those things happen, but they could happen. If you get a starred review on Publisher’s Weekly, or a review on Shelf Awareness, or you get picked up by The Rumpus Book Club, or you get your book mentioned in Oprah or Elle or some major magazine – those things can make a big difference to your book. With my first book, Garrison Keillor read a couple of poems on Writer’s Almanac ( Click here to hear one of them) and it made a huge difference – and all that took was an effort by my publisher (sending a copy to NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac) and a little luck.

Getting the word out about your book is tough if you’re a poet with a small press, but not impossible.

I’m here to say it’s possible to sell 1,000 copies of your poetry book (or even 10,000 – it happens – see my post here about how that is possible.)īut for “regular” poets who aren’t superstars with small indie presses without dedicated PR folks or a big budget, how can you make it work, or at least not put your publisher in too much debt? There’s no one magic recipe, but… I’m interested in helping other poets succeed in hitting closer to the 800-book mark than the 30-book mark. So, the question is, what can the average poet with a book coming out do to make sure they sell a decent number of copies? People on the comments thread (including me) had different ideas of what made for a successful poetry book. The comment thread is just as interesting, so read that too. In just over an hour, you'll be able to professionally format your e-book and give readers something they'll enjoy.Just read this very practical and interesting discussion of the realities of poetry publishing up at Real Pants.

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