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WORLD BOOK DAY

5 Unique, Free and Zany Ways to Sell Your Book

My ideas are better than ChatGPT’s

Nichola Scurry
5 min readApr 23, 2023

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A copy of my book, With the Music, overlooking the Grand Canyon. An eagle is flying by.
My book’s been to the Grand Canyon. Has yours? Or is that Hoover Dam? I don’t know, I’m not American. Photo from author’s private collection.

Happy World Book Day, my writerly friends!

So, let’s talk books — our books.

In 2017, I published my debut novel, With the Music. It’s a good book — I know this because people told me — but sales figures are lacklustre outside a few niche circles. This might be because I don’t bombard people’s social media and inboxes twice a day yelling at them to buy my book.

I’ve done a few indie author’s events in Barcelona and Melbourne. If people are interested, I’m always delighted to sell them a signed copy of my book, but I don’t force it down their gullets.

Until now.

The cost of living has gone up so I’ve now reached a happy stage in life where purchasing red meat from the supermarket is a rare treat. I tried some side hustles, but they’re not working.

So now it’s really time to flog my book.

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Nichola Scurry
Nichola Scurry

Written by Nichola Scurry

Not a data scientist. If you like my writing, I like coffee. ko-fi.com/nicscurry

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