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What My 5 Things a Day Has Looked Like, Month 3 of Book Promotion

I’m testing what I’ve seen work for others with my new “Profitable Author” book, starting with this daily practice

11 min readApr 22, 2025
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To hold myself to my commitment (and my advice to all authors) to do 5 Things a Day, Every Day to promote my book, The Profitable Author: 1,001 Ways to Build a Business You Love Around Your Books, and to give you a sense of the ebb and flow of this practice, how it unfolds over time, and what counts as “a thing” to do, I’ll be documenting everything I do this year on behalf of this book and measuring reviews, book/author/business exposure, book sales, and business impact along the way.

Month 3

Below is my third month’s worth of 5 things a day, with some things I want to note first:

  1. I compiled a list of all my local and regional independent bookstores, made a plan to contact one a week pitching an author event/mini Profitable Author workshop, and began this effort. This gives me a plan to make sure each…

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Sharon Woodhouse
Sharon Woodhouse

Written by Sharon Woodhouse

Sharon Woodhouse is an author coach, publishing consultant, and project manager. She was an indie book publisher for 25 years. www.conspirecreative.com

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