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Advice on marketing a kinky book

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Prooster_Price

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Hi there.

I wasn't sure if this belonged on the tickling board or the general board, so I decided I'd post it here with no objections if it gets moved.

I have just now self-published a nine-chapter, 78-page novellette called The Saturday Seven about seven young women playing a kinky card game. It has tickling, it has spanking, and it has a few other forms of punishment as well, and while thankfully it didn't cost me a cent to produce it and post it on CreateSpace (I did all my own artwork, basic as it is), I'd really like to make a few cents selling it. But I suck at marketing, bigtime. (Others can judge whether I suck at writing too, but I know I suck at marketing.) I posted a story here on the tickling storyboard, with a link to the CreateSpace page (see "A Tickling for Jocelyn" if you're curious), but beyond doing that, I'm lost: where else should I post the link? I suspect that if everybody in the world who can read English and gets into this kind of book could know about it, I'd be out of debt, living in a bigger space than I have now, and able to say "here's a few thousand dollars" to every friend of mine who's in worse shape than I am. (I'll pass on having a Beverly Hills mansion.)

So...I ask you, where else besides here should I post that link?

This is the link, by the way: https://www.createspace.com/5388015

Thanks, and happy tickling.
 
Let me add something, in case it helps trigger ideas: The book is entirely girl play. Is there a specialty area by that name, where there's a market for the mixture of spanking and tickling and all in woman-to-woman stories? Also, in case it's pertinent, I try hard (as you can see in the story I posted here) to play up the emotional bonds among these seven women. Are there forums that specialize in that even more than here at TMF, that I should get around to and post that link?

Again, thanks for anything you can offer.
 
Welcome to the TMF, Prooster_Price, and congratulations on making your first posts. 😀 This is a wonderful place. Have fun here.
As to where else you can make posts that will be seen by kinky people who might buy your book, I have two suggestions:

Max Fisch, a site used by professional Dommes and their clients: http://www.maxfisch.com/thehang/ubbthreads.php?Cat=2,3,4

FetLife, a site used by kinky people to meet one another: https://fetlife.com/home/v4#everything
 
If your link leads directly to the novellette, and people can read it for free, why would they want to purchase it? Just sayin'.
 
Actually, no, the full work isn't online for free, only that one story here at TMF which isn't part of the novelette though using the same characters. The link I posted goes to the purchase page at CreateSpace.

I'm thinking that part of what I should be asking is, are there any online retail sites that people here frequent, that might add my book to their inventory if I contacted them?

If anyone here does purchase it, I very much welcome improvement suggestions, as I might write a sequel or two if this one sells.
 
Lulu is an online retail site that I have used for fetish literature, both to buy it and to sell some of my work.
To publish there, you do have to register on the site, but there is no cost to do so.
https://www.lulu.com/
 
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