Amazon Prime Days and Author Promotion (99 cents, 7/10/23-7/14/23)

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Amazon Prime Days are Tuesday July 11th, and Wednesday July 12th 2023. I decided to try an experiment. I am reducing the price for "Un-Clenched Emotion" from $2.99 to $0.99 on the Kindle!  The book will be on sale the day before Prime Days, Monday 7/10/2023 until the day after, Thursday 7/13/2023. If you haven't found the link yet,  it is: 

https://www.amazon.com/Clenched-Emotion-Natasha-Gruss-ebook/dp/B01LZNVH4Y

I have done this 99cent deal before, but completely failed at it. It doesn't hurt to try again!  To get you interested in my book, I'll show my YouTube Teaser once again:

I believe I failed on the first go around because I am not the best at advertising. When I self published my book with Amazon I naively believed that Amazon would help me advertise....for free. It might be needless to say that I didn't really know what I was doing. I just did it. The final product, the book "Un-Clenched Emotion", turned out great.  Promoting the book didn't turn out so great, and it's still been a struggle, but I learn more everyday. 

Amazon does have a marketing section for authors and an advertising section,  but you have to pay for advertising. I'm always trying to save a penny or two, so I haven't looked into this as much as I should because it looks expensive. I am just making my 99cent sale coincide with Prime Days; instead of buying Prime Day Ads. Another reason I haven't looked more into advertising on Amazon is because I've heard other authors recommend it not be used. Now I'm seeing authors that Do recommend it! Who knows? The same goes for Goodreads Ads.

I have found another free way to advertise "Un-Clenched Emotion". Many book promotion websites offer free author interviews. So I answered a bunch of various questions about myself multiple times. You can't beat free advertising. I believe that the interviews I have posted so far have added traffic to this blog and have enticed some people to download and read my book on Kindle Unlimited. I have 3 interviews published online.  They are at:

Awesome Gang: https://awesomegang.com/natasha-gruss/

Pretty-Hot.com: https://pretty-hot.com/natasha-mckinley/

and

Crave Books: https://cravebooks.com/author/natasha-gruss/interview

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I've wondered for awhile if blog tours worked for selling books. Some of them are pricey. I figured doing these Author Interviews will give me an idea if they will work or not. I also am not sure how well they work for poets.  Book blog tours seem to be geared toward other writing genres. If you're a poet and have gone on a book blog tour, let me know how it worked out for you. Let me know about Goodreads and Amazon paid ads too.