Partner with a local organization or charity, donating free signed copies of your books to be auctioned. Another twist is to run promotions in which you announce you’ll donate a percentage of profits from your books, sold during a specific time period, to a charity or organization. This typically works best if done in conjunction with a charity related to your book’s topic or during a specific period, such as a holiday or an awareness month. Such efforts help get your name before the public and may even result in a little press attention. At the very least, helping others is the right thing for all of us to do.

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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past decade, I’ve helped more than 300 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the 7 Minutes a Day… writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.