Market Your Novels Without Social Media

I have been a big fan of the podcast Writing Off Social for a while now, and I met the podcast hosts, Sandy and Mary K., at the 2025 Novel Marketing Conference.

I had taken their Writing Off Social—the Course Lite, and while I was very, very good, I felt it didn’t have as many insights for fiction authors as opposed to nonfiction authors. Which makes sense since Sandy and Mary K. both write nonfiction.

When I talked to them about it at the conference, I spouted off some feedback I had come up with while listening to their course, and they asked me to write it down in an email and send it to them. Well, I had time to wait at the airport and it turned into a huge long email missive with lots of information.

They were very gracious and invited me to join them for an interview on their podcast, which was totally exciting! It was my first podcast interview!

But we didn’t talk about everything in the email since we didn’t have time. 

I thought it might be helpful to take what I’d already written and separate them into several blog posts, which might help other fiction authors who want to market their books without using social media.

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