Mine:
1. Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, USA
2. Bondi to Bronte, Sydney, Australia
3. Casablanca promenade, Casablanca, Morocco
4. Vondelpark, Amsterdam, Netherlands
5. Dubrovnik (non-old city), Croatia
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This was a much harder exercise (no pun intended) than I originally thought. I've left out so many incredible runs but these are my favourites, with SanFran taking the gold medal.
I bloody love this run! It's a got a bit everything; fresh pine smell, crisp mornings, fellow runners, incline, decline, bison, an old Dutch windmill and the pièce de résistance: a beach at the end - if you make it down that far of course.
As you can tell, I love a coastal run - not only for the views but a swim after. If you want more info about any of these runs i.e. where to start, end, how long, hot tips etc, ping me.
Tell me your top 5 - different country for each!
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I'd love to learn from any folks here who are also authors about best practices / efforts for book sales. Have a book releasing soon and any insights appreciated for this first-time author.
Where did you see your best ROI? What were the mktg / promo / publicity efforts that worked or failed? Thank you for any and all advice!
I'm guessing you are talking about self-publishing. My partner and I were commissioned by a publisher to write a guidebook to the D-Day Landing sites/memorials/etc for this year's 80th anniversary, so most of the publicity was done by their marketing dept. But one thing that helped was arranging talks at local bookshops. Many bookshops have a programme of promo talks. If they are already stocking your book or are prepared to do so, you can ask them what kind of deal they might offer. Or you can do your own. Book a space, send out invitations, take plenty of copies and a POS app like Sumup.
Thanks Alastair! My book is through a publisher and they are doing some marketing and PR but also wanted to see what I could do as well for better sales. Am definitely contacting local bookshops for promo talks. Thank you :)
Yep. I did. happy to help if I can, but I just learned by doing and should have done/be doing more.
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No not yet but that may sound interesting.
Did you have any luck with this?
Some. Connected with one other member offline to hear more about their experience. Happy to hear your thoughts too.