Question by KdS: Promoting a Tarot book?
I’m trying to think of good ways to promote a book about tarot reading I’ve written. I’m thinking I would like to emphasize that it’s a bit more intellectual than many of the other books on the market (lots of historical notes and citations, little spirituality), and more simplified for practical use.
To promote it as a tarot book for the skeptical might be too much, but maybe something like a book for the “academic” fortune teller? What do you think?
http://books.google.com/books?id=CgMxRqJOM6IC&dq=cartomancer’s+key&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=LAUR5YAwZq&sig=T07WoutCaot3REGuHaZrdF0XZko&hl=en&ei=6VMJStGpMYfotgOyvcWJBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6 is the Google book preview if you want to try to get ideas.
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Answer by SadharaSatguru
Hello Kds
If you haven’t already you can always get a web page, you can get them for free which may be easier to promote.
Sadhara
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Sometimes “It’s a Small, Small World” plays really loud.
I have a relative whose intellectual tarot book (self-published, as yours appears to be) sells pretty well, many years after she produced it. Virtually all her sales come from speaking engagements, mailing lists of people interested in tarot, and clients of her readings.
Her online efforts produced very few sales; apparently, that isn’t the way potential buyers seek tarot books.
So what I’d do in your place is connect to organizations devoted to tarot and related areas which might be tarot-friendly. Attend conventions, write for newsletters, sit on panels. Let people see your face and hear your approach to the subject. If they like it, some will purchase your book.
Are you trying to publish the book yourself or submit it for publishing? I would try to submit it for publishing, but I think you might want to make it longer for a publishing house to publish it.
Good ways to promote a book is to have your publisher book an event in which you can attend like have a book reading/singing at places such as Borders or Barnes & Noble or you can throw a cocktail party dealing with readings or you can speak to your publisher but if you are your own publisher, I suggest that you do more research on how self-publishers promote their books.
It sounds like a great proposition. I would certainly buy it.