Guest Post by Joan Stewart of PublicityHound.com
Contact information is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you think about book sales. But what if someone needs 50 copies of your book but wants to call you to negotiate a bulk price? Will he find your phone number at your website within 10 seconds? Or will you make him search for it until he becomes so frustrated that he leaves?
What if a reader, who never buys anything online, wants your book and prefers to pay with a check? Will she be able to find your mailing address
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I agree that readers should have an easy means of making contact. To this end I include my email address in a prominent place but broken up in order to defeat spammers. I would be reluctant to give out my home address due to the danger (however remote) that a mentally unstable individual might bombard me with hate mail or in the worse case scenario pay a visit. I might consider setting up a PO Box address but, in my experience an email is sufficient. Kevin
thanks Kevin. I wholeheartedly agree. I’ve been without a PO for the last three years due to me moving around so much at the beginning of 2013. I might get another one but for now email has served me best
Thanks Sylvia. When you had the PO box, do you remember how much roughly you received in terms of mail from readers? Best, Kevin
maybe once or twice a month, which is why it didn’t make sense to keep it up. Maybe once I become an A list author, I will do it again or work with an authors cooperative
and get a po box through them