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Selling Your Self-Published Book to Family and Friends

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Photo by Lisa Fotio on Pexel Selling your self-published book to your family and friends sounds so easy. Just ask your spouse, kids, parents, uncles and aunts, and close friends to buy your masterpiece. In reality, I found this more challenging than I expected. As I am not selling my book to make money and I have a well-paying job, I found it difficult to ask my family and friends to purchase a book from me. Based on my goal of selling 200 copies of my children’s book , Frankenstein’sScience Project , my action plan included approaching my family members and friends to distribute copies of my book. The first person I approached was actually the illustrator for the book, Alex Bjelica . He was not really a friend, but a working colleague on the book. After my book was officially published in January 2018 through Lulu , I sent Alex a free copy of the book. He had done such a wonderful job on the illustrations, that he deserved a copy. When he received his copy, he thought th