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Here Are The Free Ways I Plan to Promote My Debut Novel This Year

Here Are The Free Ways I Plan to Promote My Debut Novel This Year

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Feb 29, 2024
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I’m in Author Limbo right now.

My debut novel, The Soulburn Talisman, is due for publication in the coming weeks/months. It’s undergoing final touches. Pieces of the jigsaw are clicking into place.

And there’s very little I can do.

I’m a nerd, you see.

I love figuring out how things work. To me, creating a promotion strategy for my novels is almost as exciting as writing the actual stories. Almost.

So while there’s a lot I can’t do right now (at least until those final touches have been made to Soulburn), I can pull together the various elements of my upcoming promotion strategy into a coherent plan. That way, it’ll be ready to rock n’ roll as soon as I get the go-ahead from my publisher.

Here are a few of the free ways I plan to promote The Soulburn Talisman in the weeks leading up to its release.

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