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How to promote your self-published book for Kindle

Hi guys, usually I talk about my new book or about the ways writing can help you or a loved one discover themselves and a way to better themselves, but today is different.
I have had a tiny success with my new book "Writing for The Soul" and thought I would share my experience in how you can have a little success with yours.
First off, when you self publish your book immediately sign up for the KDP Select option on Amazon. What this will do for you is unrivaled (besides the exclusive contract you now have with Amazon, don't worry this will end up bettering you), KDP Select will give you 5 free days of promotion. Basically for 5 days out of the 90 day contract, people with Amazon Prime accounts will be able to download your book for free. At first thought yes, it will affect your sales but the potential of this is what makes it so great. When someone downloads your book for free you make a small percentage of sales still but what makes it even better is, whatever other book they may download before or after yours, will match up with your book in the "Books also bought..." section, basically advertising your book for free! So in terms of the KDP Select, do it, my book got over 600 downloads and I can tell you the affects since have been completely positive!
Now that you have the KDP Select contract this is what you want to do; get on sites that promote free books, there are TONS of them but before you list on them pick a two day promotion for a week in advance (if you publish on the 10th, start the two day promotion on the 17th), then go on these sites (listed below) and submit your book. These sites will promote your book, for free, on their site and it works out great for everyone, especially you!
Here are ten sites to use:
goodreads.com
wattpad.com
booktalk.com
writersnet.com
pixelofink.com
authormarketingclub.com
bargainebookhunter.com
freekindlefiction.blogspot.com
flurriesofwords.blogspot.com
kindlebookpromos.luckycinda.com
There are some of the better sites, so go submit them ASAP

Another thing you definitely want to do is contact book bloggers! Book bloggers are the key to success in promoting your book. Over thousands of people follow these book bloggers daily seeing the latest and greatest book they can get their hands on. The genre of your book does matter, so for finding the book blogger of your dreams, simply search "book bloggers" and go through a list of them, there are a few sites that list bloggers and sites you can find them at.
Promotion is all up to YOU, the author, if you go out on the internet and do what I have listed, I guarntee you will see positive results! Good luck, authors!
PS: Go download or buy my book "Writing for The Soul" on Amazon.com! @
http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Soul-Autobiography-Broken-ebook/dp/B00BUTMVPM/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1365556294&sr=8-1&keywords=writing+for+the+soul

Anybody want a book??

Writing for The Soul is half off! If you comment below on the post, I will message you a discount code to get the book 50% off! Comment now!

Free Writing for the Soul

If anyone is looking for a great book to sit down with for only an hour my new book "Writing for The Soul" is the perfect way to relax. It will take you through my story through mental health disorders and show you how writing helped me and how it will help you as well. Whether or not you are dealing with the same struggles. Writing may help you relieve stress from school or even a stressful workday! It's free today and tomorrow on Amazon Kindle if anyone is interested!
http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Soul-Autobiography-Broken-ebook/dp/B00BUTMVPM/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1364450668&sr=8-1&keywords=writing+for+the+soul

Writing for The Soul

In my new book "Writing for the Soul: An Autobiography and Guide for the Broken Down",  I talk about my journey through mental illness and how writing propelled me through those trying times. I believe this book is seriously critical to society, to help society become aware of the issues. Being able to use writing as a guide through the journey of mental health is a big deal and science has been proving so. As stated in my book journal writing has helped the likes of Vietnam war veterans. 

Writing is definitely a tool to use while struggling through some trying times and you should definitely by my book to read how I used writing as a tool and how you can use writing for yourself as well! There are numerous exercies to perform within the book that can be used as forms of therapy, hopefully putting you back on track for a healthy life and success. 

Go take at the books page to learn more!


http://www.amazon.com/Writing-The-Soul-Autobiography-ebook/dp/B00BUTMVPM/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1364337227&sr=8-2

Author Marketing Club

I recently came out with a book called "Writing for The Soul" the book marketing that the Author Marketing Club has done for me is great! They give access to the sites that will market for you for free and the reach they give is awesome! They have truly helped out just in the few days I have been signed up. I truly reccommend them to any other authors!

Just go to authormarketingclub.com and sign up!

Moosey's Adventures: The Way Home

Hey everyone! Just to let you know my children's book is going on its second month out and the sales are looking good but could be better! Anyone who would like to purchase the book go to
dylonjserpa.com and place an order on the homepage through PayPal! Help a young author out!

How Are You Feeling?

Writing everyday is extremely important for the way writing helps your mood. A trick of many and of myself is keeping a daily log of your moods and emotions. The log will help you keep track of what you have done throughout the day, how you've felt and the extremes of your moods. By physically seeing how you are acting, or how others are acting toward you, you come to notice how crazy your moods are becoming and becomes almost like a personal checks and balances system. This checks and balances system will help you immensly, just remember to write everyday, every few hours. Even if the  logs are just short little notes I personally promise it will help.

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My Story and Writing Helped

I attended school at Saint Bonaventure beginning in 2007 and during my late sophomore year in 2009 I developed depression, it was terrible to say the least. Everyday of my life was a struggle; it was a fight in itself to get myself out of bed and into the classroom. Junior and Senior year brought what seemed like a prized championship-boxing bout, I missed probably a third of the school days, my grades dropped like crazy and I wasn’t myself any longer; I was a shell of the person I used to be. I had days where I didn’t leave my bed, I used the blankets as a cover both physically and psychologically in the way that I used them to hide from the outside world and the problems I faced. Senior year no one would listen to me at all I was trying to scream I needed bigger help than, “You will just feel better if you go to school today” or “Go to school or else you won’t graduate.” One morning my Mother walked into the room where, yet again, I was hiding under the covers. She pulled me out of bed somehow and the morning turned into a screaming match where I screamed, “If you make me go to school then I will just walk off and kill myself, somewhere!”

            I didn’t intend on killing myself but I needed someone to listen to me further than the surface questions. My Mom did listen to me and I went to counseling where I received the help I needed, but I was lucky, I had support from many people including my parents and faculty at Saint Bonaventure. The faculty who helped me at Saint Bonaventure were amazing! They gave me the support I needed outside of my family to succeed in the outside world.

            In my counseling I found writing as a useful tool to positively direct my emotions and issues. It became an everyday habit; I would go through my day, take notes in my mind of what I went through throughout the day, then at the end of the day type out what I felt or what happened, similar to a diary. I created a system that helped me whether it was writing down the happenings of the day or a story idea that developed in my head.  The point is writing can be used as a helpful tool for kids who are having troubles in their life, whether those problems are abuse, depression and related mental illnesses, or any kind of problems the world may hold for the kids. 

What should I write?

What should you write? Anything and everything is the limit. The greatest part of writing or writing therapy is it has no boundaries, it truly is boundless. Just a few months ago I felt terrible feelings about the bullying I underwent during my elementary years so I decided to write a few things about it. It turned into a full fledged middle grade book named the "Memoirs of a fat kid" and I am currently shopping it to a few publishers and agents.
The gist here is, basically, writing is like water in the way that water can take on any form or shape and so can the words you write. Emotions are an extremely strong tool to use during the writing process; it brings out everything that's real. The best part about leaving it all out on the page is what I like to call the "Trash-affect", after you pour your heart and soul onto this blank, white piece of paper you can just simply crumple it up and throw it in the trash. In my experience it is utterly the best writing therapy exercise in the entire writing therapy world, it's completely empowering to be able to write down your deepest darkest secrets or something you are struggling with and just simply throw them away like it never happened, the "Trash-affect" is probably the most useful exercise out of all. There is a sense of absolute release after you forcefully throw the feeling or situation away, true relief.
In closing I suggest you go try the "Trash-affect", could help you out with a situation or feeling you are struggling with.

Sincerely,

Dylon J. Serpa

Writing Therapy? What is Writing Therapy?

All teens deals with their own personal problems; depression, trouble at home or just plain trying to put your life back together. Your teen years are called the "best years of your life" by many and these confusing, wonderful, crazy years are certainly not the "best years of your life. Nonetheless, everyone needs a little help once in a while for a temporary amount of time or some may need a ton of help for an extended period of time but in this time of need their are many outlets society has already established; sports, counseling etcetera but these outlets are for those who want the help, in my experience, no one wants help. I dealt with depression heavily from the ages of 16-18 and I didn't want any help, none, nada, ziltch; most of the time it was get out of my face because if you do mention the words "counseling" or "help" I am going to rip your face off. It sounds odd a person would not accept help  but 85% of the teens will not want to accept the fact they need help (even though it is nothing to be embarrased by).
Something my Mother showed me and what I discovered was the absolute power of writing, it's a strong, strong power that civilization holds. Writing done in the right ways and contexts are extremely powerful, specifically short stories and poetry; for some reason these two types of writing have immense emotional power.
Where am I going with this long unecessary post , right? Well here it is and it involves two words coming from different sides of the education specturm, one coming from the subject of English and the other Psychology, Writing Therapy.  Writing Therapy is an expressive form of writing used by many to control emotional processes and emotional release, but in a productive and good way. Teens that have traumatic emotional short lived situations can be helped by this immensly as well as help teens that are being affected by clinical problems.
For example if Debby at school is trying to take your man or she is spreading unecessary rumors about you grab a piece of paper and start writing. All of the sudden you have taken a blank page from blank to telling the story of a witch who is trying to cast a spell upon you and your man. Not only does it ease the stress of the situation but you feel accomplished. The best part of this is it is completely to yourself, no one has to see this but your own eyes.
For teens struggling with more clinical problems try keeping a daily diary (for boys you may call it something else!) of your emotional struggles, ALL of the ups and downs no matter how bad or how good. It really helps the teen out seeing how much they really are struggling and will push them to see a counselor or some more serious help
Writing Therapy. Live it. Love it. Do it. IT WILL HELP, I swear by it.