{"id":19635,"date":"2013-06-02T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T16:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/?p=19635"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:09:13","slug":"9-book-marketing-mistakes-authors-shouldnt-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/content-creation\/9-book-marketing-mistakes-authors-shouldnt-make\/","title":{"rendered":"9 book marketing mistakes authors shouldn&#8217;t make"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">If you&#8217;ve written a book, or want to write one, you&#8217;ll want to read the guest blog post I wrote for The Book Designer Blog titled <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookdesigner.com\/2013\/05\/9-opportunities-joan-stewart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Do You Know These 9 Huge Marketing Opportunities Even Smart Authors Miss?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">In the Comments, one reader asked, &#8220;How can I get these tips printed on my mouse pad? GENIUS.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">That gave me idea to quickly summarize the tips here so your can print them out and hang them on a bullet board or the wall as a handy reminder. Go over to Joel Friendlander&#8217;s blog, however, and read the entire post. Here are the nine mistakes I see otherwise smart authors making:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/06\/9-Marketing-Mistakes-Authors-Make.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"454\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/06\/9-Marketing-Mistakes-Authors-Make.jpg\" alt=\"9 Marketing Mistakes Authors Make\" class=\"wp-image-19636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/06\/9-Marketing-Mistakes-Authors-Make.jpg 454w, https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/06\/9-Marketing-Mistakes-Authors-Make-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b>What would you add to this list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve written a book, or want to write one, you&#8217;ll want to read the guest blog post I wrote for The Book Designer Blog titled Do You Know These 9 Huge Marketing Opportunities Even Smart Authors Miss? In the Comments, one reader asked, &#8220;How can I get these tips printed on my mouse pad?\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/content-creation\/9-book-marketing-mistakes-authors-shouldnt-make\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":3,"wds_primary_category":603,"footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[608,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-19635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-content-creation","7":"tag-authors-publishers","8":"tag-book-marketing","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43103,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19635\/revisions\/43103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}