While looking for something completely different today, I noticed that Don’t Judge a Book By Its Magic had 17 ratings and 10 reviews up on Goodreads! Several of these reviews were unexpected and they made my day. Some were even up on other sites, including an online magazine. Big thanks to the reviewers! Please drop by and see what they said.
http://www.indtale.com/reviews/don%E2%80%99t-judge-book-its-magic
Look! A pretty Table!
My list is getting longer now! Thanks to all of you for your great input and willingness to share!
**These ratings for book marketing companies are all based strictly on customer experience and opinion. This is a running list and I will be happy to add other customer opinions of book marketing companies to this list. To include your ratings, please comment on this post or email me at katepolicani@gmail (dot) com. Continue reading
After a little bit of digging for people’s experiences with book marketing services, I realized this is going to have to be an ongoing investigation and report process. Overall it seemed that everybody was interested but hadn’t had any experiences. I only managed to get a few and I only included ones with people’s direct experience with the service. Here’s what I found:
KindlePromo – “actively promotes” books with tweets £15 for Indie Book Listing service
Kindle Daily Nation – $160 “with no result” (used to be great but saturated with too many books)
BookWhirl – SCAM! http://forums.writersweekly.com/viewtopic.php?t=8338
Goddess Fish Promotions – (5-blog tour and reviews, $30) “didn’t break even” but supplied publicity.
Orangeberry Summer Splash Tour – participant’s tour hasn’t begun yet (August)- $25
Sizzling PR – “Nice people and very affordable.” $15 up to $75 blog tour options
99 cent Network – No obvious return for money ($45 intro rate for 3 months) and no visibility of book on site. No answers to emails inquiring about where to find the book.
A few more were mentioned but they didn’t provide more than names. I’m bargain hunting enough at this stage that if the one who mentions it doesn’t talk about price and their website doesn’t talk about price, then I figure they’re too expensive or don’t cater to self-published authors.
The conversational approach seems to work better than a poll, and people in the forums had the most to say.
Anyone else had any experiences, good or bad, with a book marketing company?
Let me know what you think of book marketing companies you have used. I couldn’t find any comprehensive rating online, so I decided to make one!
Be like Lorenzo: patronize an artist like me!
Kate Policani 