I was looking up some marketing ideas, so I’ll post them here for you. There are tons of them, but here are some with good ideas/ideas I hadn’t heard of before:
http://holly-stacey.suite101.com/promoting-a-selfpublished-book-a122124
https://www.createspace.com/en/community/community/resources/marketing_your_work?view=blog
These are good lists of things to do for marketing a self-published book. Truthfully, some of these sound less pleasent than going to the dentist, but an author’s gotta do what an author’s gotta do.
And here are some more good links I found while cleaning up my “Favorites”!
How to self-publish well (good stuff!):
http://thespectacleblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/how-to-self-publish-well/
What is a virtual book tour? How do I do it?
https://www.createspace.com/en/community/docs/DOC-1008
Self-pub.net’s list, making this a list within a list:
All of these were good resources for me as a self-publisher. Marketing is so scary and this thing is so complicated that any filter you can get, such as a kind bloggers site with links, is wonderful. And it should all be free because we authors almost always start with nothing.
Kate Policani 