Have you guys ever done this? Should we start? Let me know!
Exhausted, that’s how I felt when my Facebook launch party ended. Three hours of chatting online, asking trivia questions, keeping track of winners, and answering questions.
This is the story of how I created and hosted my first launch party.
Preparation for the event.
- Create a banner to announce your event. I used Canva.com. It’s free.
- Set up event on Facebook. Remember to make the event public or only your friends can see it.
- Put the back description of your novel at the top of the page with a link to where your book is sold. You can use booklinker.net to create a link that will take the person to the amazon site of their home country.
- Invite all your friends and ask them to share your post.
- Send a reminder the day before and the morning of the event.
- Have something to give away. I had 14 books donated by other…
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DAN ALATORRE 
9 replies on “Tips For Hosting A Facebook Launch Party”
TELL ME if you’ve done this, or a “meet and greet blog hop” or any other party-like social media thing, and what was the result???
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I’d be interested to know this. I get lots of invites but they tend to fall in the early hours for me, so have not yet experienced one. My second book was released today (paperback at least, KDP issues!), and although I would love to mark the occasion with something like this, I have two issues, I wouldn’t know how to run such an event, I don’t have enough followers yet.
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Tess, I found by attending other events first, it was easier to host my own. I got the feel of what others were doing, and also what did and didn’t work. Then I felt ready to host my own. It’s nerve wracking but worth it – I think.
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Dan, Thank you for the reblog. Tomorrow, I will announce two up coming Facebook Launch parties by authors doing this for the first time. I’ll be giving away a free eBook copy of DESCENT at each party. It’s a great chance to anyone wanting to learn about a launch party to see one in action. One party is on Saturday and the other on Sunday.
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That makes a lot of sense. By attending, you’d learn a lot.
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I want to do this for my next book. The previous ones weren’t such great candidates for FB hooplah, but maybe this one will work. So I’m paying attention. Thank you.
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Never hurts to learn! A tip here, a tip there, it adds up!
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[…] vaguely, I was prompted to learn more by Kristina Stanley, author of Descent, after reading a blog post by funny man Dan Alatorre, bestselling author of the Savvy Stories […]
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See how sneaky I am!
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