Marketing Short Stories Online

by | May 27, 2011 | Marketing & Selling

marketing stories online
Short stories are a tricky beast. People don’t usually go out looking to buy them, but they love having them around. Novels are easier to market than short stories, but anthologies still have a decent market. So how do you use the Internet to market your short stories?

Pink spoon marketing
Do you have an anthology available? Give away your best story from the collection to whet readers’ appetite.

Social media marketing
Share your journey with your Twitter followers and Facebook friends. When you sell a story, announce it. When you’re working on a story, share tips and tidbits of your writer’s journey.

Video marketing
Record every live appearance where you get a chance to speak and post the videos on YouTube and Facebook. Create a video “diary” where you let readers peek inside your world.

Audio marketing
Produce a podcast. Record readings of your work and give samples away, while selling full recordings.

Blog marketing
Blog about what you are doing. I do this on CarmaSpenceWriter.com. Share thoughts, experiences and inspirations. Post samples of your work.

Article marketing
Write about writing and post article to article directories. Write about the background information in your stories and post them. For example, you’ve done research on medieval weaponry to make your high fantasy short story have more verisimilitude. Post an article about it that will attract people interested in medieval weaponry … chances are they’ll enjoy your work, as well.
 


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