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The book marketing services at outskirts press help authors promote highquality books with exceptional book marketing services. Book marketing may 2, 2018 this week, among other things, belinda griffin of smartauthorslab offers advice on how to strike the right balance between doing what only you, the author, can do, and delegating appropriately in why authors need to budget for book marketing. Selfpublishing requires a monumental effort and yes, the process is long as this post is. Six great blogs for indie authors publishers weekly. Self publish science fiction amazon kindle direct publishing. After working for some time with an agent and experiencing the drawn out traditional publishing process, i decided there might be a better way to chase my dreams of becoming a published author.
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