Promotion Packages for Self-Publishing Authors

Promotion Packages

If you’re self publishing (and this includes any situation where an author makes a contribution towards the cost of publication), promoting can be hard, hard work. Your budget is often more of a shoestring, mainstream media doesn’t have room for you, and you struggle to get your book the exposure it needs to do well. Bookbag can help. We offer three promotional packages to self publishers, all of which can help make your book more visible. Our site attracts about 60,000 unique visitors every month. Page views number more than 500,000. Our newsletter goes to over 4,000 opt-in subscribers, a great many of whom are booksellers, librarians and teachers - just the people you need to find. We have a strong presence on Twitter with more than 17,000 followers including lots of industry professionals.

Starting 2013, we also produce an annual list of the best ten self published/indie books we have reviewed over the course of the year. A feature article for each list is permanently displayed on the site, included in our January newsletter each year and promoted through Twitter. This extra promotion - and praise! - could help to give your book longevity. For us, it's a way to show our commitment to this growing market sector.

We can give your book real coverage: a high quality and independent review permanently on the web, a complete picture of you as its author, and invaluable exposure to consumers and industry professionals alike. Why not give us a try?

Basic review package: for books with under 10,000 words: £50, 10,000 to 50,000 words: £70 and over 50,000 words: £90

Our standard package for self-publishers.

• Independent, objective review of your book posted permanently on www.thebookbag.co.uk, together with links to purchase from Amazon UK and Amazon US.

• A dedicated author page at www.thebookbag.co.uk, with image, brief biography and weblink, together with a link to our review of your book.

• Exposure for your book and our review on our homepage for 1 week.

Interview and social networking package: for books with under 10,000 words: £85, 10,000 to 50,000 words: £110 and over 50,000 words: £130

Add an author profile and social networking package to give in-depth coverage.

• Independent, objective review of your book posted permanently on www.thebookbag.co.uk, together with links to purchase from Amazon UK and Amazon US.

• A dedicated author page at www.thebookbag.co.uk, with image, brief biography and weblink, together with a link to our review of your book.

• Exposure for your book and our review on our homepage for 1 week.

• A featured, in-depth interview with you about your book, your writing, and anything else you’d like to talk about, posted permanently on www.thebookbag.co.uk.

• A link to both review and interview in our 4000-subscriber newsletter

• A link to both review and interview on our 18,000-follower Twitter feed.

Full promotion package: for books with under 10,000 words: £110, 10,000 to 50,000 words: £135 and over 50,000 words: £155

The full package includes competitions and giveaways, to encourage reader response.

• Independent, objective review of your book posted permanently on www.thebookbag.co.uk, together with links to purchase from Amazon UK and Amazon US.

• A dedicated author page at www.thebookbag.co.uk, with image, brief biography and weblink, together with a link to our review of your book.

• Exposure of your book and our review on our homepage for 1 week.

• A featured, in-depth interview with you about your book, your writing, and anything else you'd like to talk about, posted permanently on www.thebookbag.co.uk.

• A link to both review and interview in our 4000-subscriber newsletter

• A link to both review and interview on our 18,000-follower Twitter feed.

• An on-site competition to win a copy of your book, promoted on our website, our Twitter feed and at the main UK competition portals. You provide the prize - signed copies are best - and we do the rest. Our competitions are very popular and the portal exposure alone is invaluable.

• A Twitter-only giveaway for a copy of your book.

Points to note

We will provide a full-length, unbiased review exactly as we would for any book from a mainstream publisher. No account will be taken of the fact that payment has been made to secure the review or that the book is self published - in fact these points will not be mentioned. If you take an interview package and want to talk about self publishing, that's fine.

The copyright of the review rests with the reviewer but you will be entitled to quote from the review on any websites, in your own publicity material and on book covers. You can also link to the full review from any websites. Whilst we can't make any guarantees before we've seen the book, we do try and give you some useful quotes within the review.

We'll need a finished copy of your book but we're happy to work with either a hard or a digital copy. We have worked from .pdf but it really doesn't make the most comfortable reading experience! Also - we don't accept proofs after the date of publication.

You may wish to have more than one book reviewed: if you let us know the details we can quote reduced prices for the various promotional packages.

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If you wish to go ahead please Email us and we'll send details of how payment can be made and the address to which your book should be sent.

Reader's Report

If you would like us to look at you book before publication we can offer a reader's report. This provides a detailed critique of your book, covering structure, style and marketability. Fiction reports will also discuss plot, characters and dialogue. Non-fiction reports will especially look at presentation and accessibility of data. We will concentrate on areas we feel need improvement and give encouragement throughout. Please email us for prices and include some information about your book, including the genre and number of words in your manuscript.

If you've any further questions please don't hesitate to ask and regardless of what you decide to do we wish you every success with your book.

If your book is being published traditionally, you'll find the information you require here.