Comments on: Help me promote my blook

Question: Help me promote my blook

PoopyDoop — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:27:00 -0800

Metafites: What are some ways I can promote my blook?

Please share with me any websites, advice or point me to blook writing communities that would help me acquire more readers.

By: emyd

emyd — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:29:20 -0800

What's a blook?

By: croutonsupafreak

croutonsupafreak — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:33:32 -0800

Well, posting it to Projects was a start. Is there any kind of conflict-of-interest involved in posting it there and asking about it here?

Anyhow, to promote a web site you should probably do some search-engine optimization and maybe also advertise through Google.

By: PoopyDoop

PoopyDoop — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:42:18 -0800

emyd: Wikipedia has a pretty exhaustive writeup here.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:45:52 -0800

Meet with booksellers, give them free copies of your book. Tell them why you're excited about the book and try to get them excited about it too. Especially do this at independent stores.

On the off chance that you're self-publishing please keep in mind that stores will be less likely to order the book if it's non-returnable.

Go down to your local newspaper, alt-weekly, and what not and speak to the person who does book reviews. Give them a copy of your book and tell them what makes it awesome.

If you have lots of friends, try to set up a reading/signing locally. Try to get on local author panels for book festivals.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:46:48 -0800

Oh, sorry about that, I thought it was a typo.

By: PoopyDoop

PoopyDoop — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:54:41 -0800

No problem drezdn, still very good advice. Thank you.

By: Brittanie

Brittanie — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:04:46 -0800

No Media Kings has some good ideas.

By: gorillawarfare

gorillawarfare — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:46:05 -0800

If your goal were to promote your blook to me, it would be a big mistake to refer to it as a "blook" rather than a "book". "Blook" sounds gimicky, and is so off-putting for me that I would decide against buying it before even attempting to assess its content.

I am not sure whether your intended promotional audience will feel similarly, but it is probably at least worth thinking about.

By: survivorman

survivorman — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:18:21 -0800

PoopyDoop,
Could you give me some links to blooks so I know what you mean?
-John

By: PoopyDoop

PoopyDoop — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:56:53 -0800

survivorman: Hackoff.com is probably the most prominant blook out there, and there are others recently posted in MetaFilter Projects (which is all I'll say).

gorillawarfare: Only a few years ago I thought the word "blog" sounded gimmicky too (as did many other people), but it seems to have gained acceptance.

By: Reggie Digest

Reggie Digest — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:02:26 -0800

What are some ways I can promote my blook?

Blog about it? Presumably if your blog is popular enough to warrant blookification, you should have no problems.

By: Reggie Digest

Reggie Digest — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:07:58 -0800

Oh. Never mind. Apparently you don't know what a blook is either.