Authors present for this class was Ann Boland, Sherry Monahan, Lynn Wiese Sneyd.
These tips should apply to self-publishing or to traditional publishing.
Ann talked about your website that should have a voice and information about you and how to buy your books. You can use your blog and connect it to your social media. Social media has now become one of the best cost effective avenues to sell you books and blogs.
Sherry talked about utilizing trade tables, join writering websites for name association with your book, and give away freebies of your business cards, bookmarks, or samples of your writing.
Lynn recommended editing services by publishing companies. Be persistant, try different things to attract your books attention, do book signings presentations. Reach out to organizations and events. Have a slide show, give food away. Always post on social media with a picture or a scene from of your book. Have a FB page for each book emphasis your genre when targeting your audience.
From another class on Reviews: Don’t be shy.