How Do You Create Press Kits For Authors?
As an author, you want to maximize your book’s exposure. One marketing tool you can use to help sell your books is a press kit. You can submit the press kit to magazines, newspapers, radio and TV stations. Prepare yourself to be contacted for questions and possibly interviews. Hire a promotional photographer to take pictures of you and your book. You can sprinkle in a little creativity for fun if it’s suitable, such as surrounding yourself with roses and candlelight for a romance novel. Perfect your author bio. Keep it approximately one to three paragraphs and write in third person. Create a sell sheet. A sell sheet is all about your book and is not much different from a press release. Include contact and publisher information, the ISBN, the cost of your book and where it can be purchased. Share additional details. If you have already received reviews, awards or other acknowledgements for your book, add them to another one-page sheet. Craft a virtual press kit. Simply transform your do
