A great way to get promotional ideas for your books is through brainstorming with other writers. This can easily be done with online message boards, forums and marketing groups can be a huge help. I’ve been a member of networking groups where you work on marketing ideas together and the members promote each other. This works face to face, online or over the phone.

Brainstorm Your Promotions With Other Authors

You can create a group of people so that you can brainstorm ideas. This group can be made up of friends, family or business associates. Anyone who can and will offer useful input about your ideas can be part of this group. You can post a link on your website to ask people for their thoughts. It would be interesting to post a graphic of a “suggestion box” and invite visitors to send their ideas.

How to Brainstorm Online

This doesn’t need to be an expensive promotional opportunity. Online promotional brainstorming should be free. Our promotional forum is a great way to brainstorm and share ideas. Anyone can ask questions, start a discussion, ask for feedback about your website or let your hair down and have some fun. This offers chances to become acquainted and to share ideas and suggestions. You may even find writers who write similar genres, use the same settings or any other similarities.

There's No Reason to Work on Book Promotion Alone

Working together along with sharing ideas and suggestions is also a way for all of us to learn more and to develop new friendships. These friendships can easily turn into productive promotional relationships for each person who is involved. I’ve also found the people who participate and help one another, attract more attention to their books.

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ABOUT NIKKI LEIGH

“I want to convey time, place and character to my readers. I choose my settings carefully and want people to understand what the setting and history means for the story.

“The time I spent researching Cape Ann, led to 3 more books in the series. Part of the last book in the Misty Cove Series will take place in Wilmington, NC. The area and its history make it the perfect Place to set that story.”

“My first mystery is set along the Outer Banks of NC and at Cape Hatteras. There is extensive local history and color built into the story. I did that to help convey the time and place to readers.

“My love of the coast, lighthouses, history and architecture let me have a lot of fun researching and creating my stories. I’ve found that its helpful to write several stories in the same area.

Nikki has a series of business books released under the name Shri Henkel. Additional information can be be found at www.sandcconsulting.com/books_4_sale.htm. She also owns a small business consulting and promotional business. Her twenty years of business management and fifteen years of promotional experience have been very helpful in her business books.

Nikki would invite all authors, writers and readers to visit her and her friends at www.readersstation.com Nikki can be reached at www.nikkileigh.com. Nikki is also the Self Promotion Topic Editor for the Inspired Author website, visit her at: http://www.inspiredauthor.com/Business_Career/Self_Promotion/ and on her promotional blog at: http://inspiredauthor.com/blogIA/index.php/promo