Episode 239 / Want to make a big impact with your book? Publicist, award-winning journalist, entrepreneur, and author of Make a Big Impact with Your Book, Melanie Herschorn, has tips to help you stand out.

Topics:

• Beyond the Launch: keep promoting—your book is new to someone who hasn’t read it yet
• Misconceptions around marketing: engage beyond bookstores
• Building a community and relationships
• Don't fear oversharing
• Alternative and creative marketing strategies: speaking and podcasts
• Build reader communities: engage people around your book’s themes—create a sense of belonging that AI can't mimic

💙 Become a supporter of the podcast https://wishidknownforwriters.com/support

• Access to backlist of exclusive supporter episodes
• Private slack group
• Shoutout on a future episode.
• 🌟New: writing sprints on Tues and Thurs at 9 Eastern. Link in the slack group

📥 Send us a Text Message

⚡Links:

• website: yourbigimpactbook.com
• Instagram: @bigimpactbooks

Send us a text

Support the show

🚀 Jami’s Launch Plan https://www.jamialbright.com/authorservices

❤️ Jami’s books https://amzn.to/3wSraA5

🔎 Sara’s books https://www.sararosett.com/bibliography/

📚 Sara’s How to Write a Series book and audiobook: https://www.sararosett.com/how-to-write-a-series/

The Big List of Craft and marketing books mentioned on WIKT podcast episodes https://bookshop.org/lists/recommenced-resources-for-writers-from-the-wish-i-d-known-then-podcast
Resources from the Author and Reader Community to Help Ukrainians https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E9QQhmcpa_dlxQY-GEqBiIbIZk-_J1MgQX_BxLI3F84/edit?usp=sharing