Greetings Earthlings and aliens!

I assume you come in peace. I also assume if you’ve landed here, you’re probably a writer–hopefully a science fiction writer–looking for ways to market your books. If not, you’re in the wrong place. Unless … you’re an agent, publicist, publisher, or reviewer. Then by all means, please read on! (And, yes, I’m available.) The rest of you will have to head back to Google and try again. Your experiments are ^ that ^ way.

A little back story: The majority of my administrative career was spent working as a Virtual Assistant, assisting authors, speakers, coaches, and other small biz gurus. For fifteen years we blogged. We social media-ed. We sent out press releases, and so on. But for as much as I learned from promoting self-help books and business guides, it was a whole different ball of lightning. Now, I’m not just in the fiction arena, I’m in the science fiction arena.

Building a science fiction platform looks like a whole different game. I don’t see myself promoting tele-classes on how to build a teleporter any time soon. And long-winded sales pages pitching my book are out. Some of those things just don’t apply to science fiction book marketing–at least not yet anyway.

But there’s other opportunities–fun opportunities–waiting to be had. That’s the thing about sci fi. You can pretty much get as creative as you want. So, the challenge–the experiment–is to find unique ways to market books … pioneer techniques where no science fiction author has gone before.

The ride might get a little bumpy. People aren’t always open to knew ideas. And sometimes you just get too far ahead of your time for your own good. I often wonder where Tesla would fit in, in our modern world. What would he be inventing now?

If you’re still with me, I invite you to join me on my marketing adventure as I learn what works and what doesn’t when promoting science fiction books. The goal: get so good at marketing it runs on auto-pilot. Wouldn’t you rather write all night?

Let’s have some fun!

Becca Hardy

Author of the SEVERXANCE Living Legacy Saga