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That one's specifically for traditionally published authors and it's the publishing house's publicist that does it. In the sense of what we could do for ourselves to market our book, that one isn't so great in that they're far too busy to be reading an unknown self-pubbed author's book. The best tip I thought, for the self-pubbed lot, was to get readers involved Using readers' names as suspects in the book, getting them to name a minor character. That's pretty clever, free of charge, and would certainly pique interest. Of course, it requires an existing reader base, however small.
I meant it for your all four lines you wanted to say in that. Especially this one "Using readers' names as suspects in the book, getting them to name a minor character". To what extent is this idea feasible?
Read the article - it was one of the ways the successful self-published author described that he uses to promote his books. Clearly it works for him. But as I mentioned in my post already, that would require an existing reader base - so it is feasible to that extent. I don't see what more there is to add?
