Promoting Your Ebook
Tuesday, 11.14.06 @ 12:03AM 
This post is a book review of the book A Complete Guide to Promoting and Selling Your Self-Published Ebook. I shortened that so the title of this post would fit on one line. I am today's stop on Dorothy's Virtual Book Tour. You can catch all the other stop by checking in her blog. OK, so I am here today promoting an ebook that will help you promote your ebook. If thats not the definition of recursive, I don’t know what is. If you don’t understand recursion by that definition, then go look at some recursive “art”, the Hasselhoffian Recursion. But if you’ve written an ebook, you’ll want to know this stuff. And if you haven’t written an book because you thought the hassle of marketing would be beyond you, think again. Eboooks and the internet take the decisions out of the hands of the big publishing houses, and puts them in the hands of the author.
Dorothy Thompson is a relationship expert, coach, and author. She’s also a friend, so when she was rounding up folks to review her new ebook, I made the list as the ONE reviewer who isn’t a writer or expert on these kinds of things. I think she likes me because some of my weird relationship experiences remind her of a book plot.
A Complete Guide to Promoting and Selling Your Self-Published Ebook took me longer to read than I thought it would. And not just because the title is so long. And not because its difficult, but because some of the promotion tips she shares are good not only for ebooks, but for websites as well. I had to stop every so often and do something she suggests to make this site more visible! She shares lots of advice about how to make your own website for promotional purposes, how to network with other writers and writer’s publications, and how to set up your virtual book tour. She lists specific sites that can be of use to you. In fact, there are tons of lists here, information that would take me years to find on my own! I wold never know how to set up a “shopping cart” online otherwise. Other advice includes how to write a press release, getting yourself on talk shows, and how to get people to review your ebook. Of course, I was easy. Every review I’ve done so far earns me nothing but free books. But free books is a GOOD thing!
The whole idea is that you CAN do this. If you’ve got a book in you, an ebook is the easiest and fastest way to get that knowledge to readers. Dorothy’s ebook, as recursive as it is, will lead you through the process of getting that ebook into the conciousness of the internet. To get the book, go to this site. 
Dorothy's Other links
Relationship advice from Dorothy Thompson.
Ebook Promotion for Self-Published Authors. This site explains the virtual book tour concept. You can find the previous and future blog stops on this tour.
Dorothy’s blog is called Boomer Chick: Musings of an Over The Hill Chick.
Books written or edited by Dorothy Thompson
Romancing the Soul
How to Find and Keep Your Soul Mate
101 Facts you Never Knew About Soul Mates
The Search for the Million $$$ Ghost
eBooks
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Getting Published. This is a FREE ebook for writers!
The Search for the Million $$$ Ghost
Other Ebooks by my friends
The Tao of Politics Anthology by Ed Bremson.
Also available in paperback
Queen Klutz by Marti Lawrence.
Also available in paperback.
And now, a joke or two!
SOME HAVE IT, SOME DON’T
There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed a desire to become a great writer. When asked to define "great" he said:
"I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, wail, howl in pain, desperation, and anger!"
He now works for Microsoft, writing Excel error messages.
WRITING TIPS
Like the virgin prairie for the explorer, metaphors are pregnant with possibility, but don't mix them.
It behooves the writer to avoid archaic expressions.
One should not shift from the third person to the second person when you write.
I once read that splitting modifiers was wrong in the library.
It is generally recommended that the use of the passive be minimized.
Write assertively, I think.
A sentence containing a parenthetical phrase (must be a complete sentence) without that phrase.
Avoid the use of vulgarisms that might piss off the reader.
Avoid rephrasing, which is, in other words, paraphrasing or rewording of a statement, sort of like repeating it.
I've told you a million times not to exaggerate.
Ambiguity is more or less undesirable.
Hyperbole is the worst mistake you can possibly make.
You will die horribly if you are overdramatic!
Boise, Idaho's 7327 English teachers agree that all statistics should be verified.
Don't verbify nouns.
I have traveled all over the world, known many important people, received many degrees, and have learned that it is in bad taste to use yourself as an expert example even though I am one.
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When choosing among two, make the best choice. Between three or more, pick the better one.
Avoid overuse of rhetorical questions. Know what I mean?
I could care less about expressions that mean the opposite of what they say.
Vary sentence length. Conformity is boring.
Be sure to use the correct word accept in certain cases.
Don't use no double negatives.
Avoid clichés like the plague.
Each pronoun should match their subject.
Never use a preposition to end a sentence with.
Try to not split infinitives.
Don't be repetitively redundant or repetitious.
Thought for today: The trouble with doing something right first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
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Reader Comments (10)
I verbify nouns to the point of splitting their infinitives with alacrity and run-on-sentencity, for is it not in a society founded on freedom the right of verbification to do so with personal discretion? A totally non-sequitur example: The Christmas noun she wore flowed like a river in flood stage, accentuating her curvatures with definitive verbalischiousness and profoundity. And I digress.
And that doesn't count how I engage in the slaughterinity of verbiage and nounage with wonton disregard for grammatical jurisimprudence and Chinese take-out orders.
Not only are you a great humoriste (sic) but you are also a great book reviewer.
I find Ms. Thompson's book to be very interesting since, as you so kindly noted today, I have written and published several ebooks. I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the info, and thanks for the jokes. What a multi-talented woman you are!
Ed