Promoting your work.

Once you have completed your work, submitted it to dpdotcom and published it on the dpdotcom website, how can you promote and market it? How can you generate interest...and sales?

Here are some simple tips:

• Create your own website for your book. You can then direct customers to your website to buy your book from you. The website address could be added to your business card, or placed as a "signature" in the footer area of every email you send out. That way, you spread the word about your ebook with every email you send.

• Use email to contact people about your book. Email is a digital format and so is totally appropriate to use in the promotion of your digital book.
• Contact websites that have a connection with the subject of your ebook - if your ebook is a horror story, approach some of the big "horror" websites to see if they are interested in featuring your ebook. If your ebook deals with teenage life, contact one of the big teenage magazines or websites to see if they would like to feature your work.
• Try your local newspapers to see if they will feature your ebook in a story, or as an article on their "Arts" page.
• Try local magazines, especially the free ones, who are always looking for interesting articles to print.
• Approach writers' groups or authors' groups to see if they are interested in your book. Many will have regular "reading evenings" when you can showcase your work by reading selected extracts.
• Try your local radio station to see if they will feature your book on one of their arts programmes. They may even be keen to broadcast a serialisation of your book.
• Approach local Libraries to see if they hold meetings for authors to discuss their work - make a point of joining in.
• And don't forget family and friends - they will almost certainly want to support your writing by spreading the word and downloading your book.