Marketing Services for Authors
We have a range of paid-for services for authors, including Sponsored Posts, Twitter Alerts, and Sidebar Adverts. All at very reasonable prices starting from just £5.00 for a week’s worth of advertising. We also run Twitter giveaways too, see details below.
Payments are to be made via PayPal (You do not have to have an account with PayPal to pay through them). We provide invoices. See below for more information.
Below are the options for our Sponsored Posts. There are four different options, reasonably priced. We try to accommodate the dates you would like the post to run. If your chosen date isn’t available, we will let you know and offer you the next closest date.
Option One: Basic Spotlight Post – £16
The Basic Spotlight Post comes with the following features:-
– A promotional post on our blog
– Image/blurb/info of your book
– Online purchase links – Up to five places
– Author bio/photo/social media & website links
– Your book featured on our sidebar for one week and a link to an online book store
– Custom made advert to use on Twitter & Instagram pages
– Advertising of the post on our Twitter page at least twice a day for a week
– Advertising of the post on our Facebook, Instagram & Pinterest Pages
– Shout out on Friday on our Twitter Page – #FridayFollow #FF
Option Two: The Extract Post – £18
The Extract Post comes with all the features from our Basic Spotlight Post above but with the following added extras:-
– Include one or more extracts or teasers in your post
– Option to add a YouTube trailer
Option Three: Book Series Post – £20
Do you have a book series? Then this might be the option for you.
Comes with all the features from our Basic Spotlight Post above but with the following added extras:-
– The post will feature all your books from your series (up to six books)
– Feature one or all of your books in one image on our sidebar
– Customised social media advert featuring all your of books for our Twitter & Instagram pages
Option Four: The Something Different Post – Price to be arranged
If you don’t see anything you like above but have an idea of your own, I’m happy to talk to you about it and come up with a reasonable price.
Useful if your book series contains more than five books.
To book a sponsored post email stacey@whisperingstories.com with ‘Sponsored Post‘ in the subject bar. We will get back to you within 48 hours. Payment is to be made via PayPal before the post goes live on the blog.
£7.00
Want to get more people noticing your book? Then this is the ideal advertisement for you. Perfect for upcoming releases or price promotions.
Includes:-
– A custom made advert to post on our Twitter feed
– Advert posted three time a day
– Advert will run on our Twitter feed for 7 days
– Advert will include a link to a selling page of your choice
– Any hashtags you wish to use can be incorporated into the posts
We currently have over 23.5k followers on Twitter – Data correct as of 4th November 2021
To book in this service email stacey@whisperingstories.com including ‘Twitter Alert‘ in the subject bar.
Please be aware this is for an advert on our Twitter feed, not any of our other social media channels. If you would like us to place the advert on our Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest accounts this is an added £2.00 extra.
Payment is to be made via PayPal before the alert is posted on our Twitter page. (You don’t have to have a PayPal account to pay via PayPal). An invoice for the post will be emailed to you.
£5.00
An advert placed on our sidebar for your book or for yourself. Price is for 7 continuous days worth of advertising.
Includes –
– The cover of your book/yourself featured on our sidebar
– A link of your choice on the advert
– Visible from every page of our blog
To book in this service email stacey@whisperingstories.com including ‘Sidebar Advert‘ in the subject bar.
Payment is to be made via PayPal before the advert is posted on our blog. (You don’t have to have a PayPal account to pay via PayPal). An invoice for the post will be emailed to you.
The cost of your book + half postage costs
Every week we run a giveaway on Twitter. The giveaway usually gets somewhere between 500-1000 people entering. They are only open to UK residents.
If you would like your book to be part of the giveaway then read on.
– The giveaway is for physical books only.
– You can add merchandise with it if you wish
– You can either post your book to us, send it via Amazon, or another bookshop, or if you are outside the UK you can send us money via Paypal* to cover the cost of purchasing your book.
– You also pay for half the postage costs via Paypal or in cash if you want to send it with your book (£1.60).
How it works-
– You send us a copy of your book either in hardback or paperback (or we purchase it with funds sent)
– You send us half the postage cost – £1.60 either in cash or via Paypal
– A date is selected for your giveaway is to run on Twitter
– We add some goodies to go with your book (chocolates, coffee, tea, etc)
– On the Tweet we ask entrants to follow us and yourselves (as long as you have a Twitter account)
– When the giveaway ends we randomly select the winner and then post out the book and goodies to them.
To book in this service email stacey@whisperingstories.com including ‘Twitter Giveaway‘ in the subject bar.
*We will send you a link to pay via Paypal for your book and half the postage costs. If you would like an invoice, one can be provided but Paypal will charge a fee for business transactions which must be cover by yourselves.
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