Why Do You Write and Market Books?

Whether marketing a book -- or living your best life -- you always need to think of the big picture. If you forget why you are doing something, it makes the execution of the how harder. 

Begin your day by answering your why— not your what — when it comes to your writing career. 

Answer the following: 

* Why are you writing today?

* Why are you marketing today?

* If you are not writing or marketing today, why are you doing something else?

* Why aren’t you doing some writing and some marketing? 

Think big picture. Then, total up all of the detailed small steps that you need to take in order to get you where you want to go. 

Your why gets you motivated and inspired to take action. It informs you of what you need to do. It enlivens and empowers you.  

You market today because you believe in your book, want it to succeed, believe it can succeed only if you help it, and because there is little point in writing books that won’t at least have a chance of getting read or discovered. 

You write today because that is what writers do. You love it and have something worthwhile to say. We want our writings to help others, whether it teaches, inspires, entertains, or enlightens them.  

You must both write books and market them on a regular basis in order to produce enough content for others to consume, and to generate more book sales.  

What will you do today? First, ask yourself why?

 Oxymorons - Riddle Me This, Batman 

• Why would you need a driver's license to purchase alcohol when you can’t drink and drive?
• How come we don’t spell phonetic the way it sounds?
• Can you imagine a world without hypothetical situations?
• Why does an airplane have flotation devices and no parachutes on board?
• If you see a stop sign, when are you supposed to go?
• If you eat in a restaurant, why is it called eating out but when you take food to go you have to come inside to wait for it?

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About Brian Feinblum

Brian Feinblum should be followed on www.linkedin.com/in/brianfeinblum. This is copyrighted by BookMarketingBuzzBlog ©2024. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog. His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent.  This award-winning blog has generated over 3.9 million pageviews. With 4,900+ posts over the past dozen years, it was named one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby  http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs  and recognized by Feedspot in 2021 and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.” For the past three decades, including 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and director of publicity positions at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen, Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C. Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler. He hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America several years ago, and has spoken at ASJA, Independent Book Publishers Association Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, Morgan James Publishing, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester) and The Washington Post. His first published book was The Florida Homeowner, Condo, & Co-Op Association Handbook.  It was featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald.