Paul Whybrow
Full Member
- Jun 20, 2015
Stumbling along the self-promotion path in 2021, I’ve been casting around for unusual (and cheap) ways of advertising my Cornish Detective series.
I had a brainwave this morning (clunk!) while thinking about how British cars don’t need to display a road tax disc on the windscreen these days. Maybe, I could use my newly acquired Volvo as an advertising hoarding. Trades people use vinyl decals and magnetic signs attached to their trucks, so why not authors too?
I could get a decal made up using this image for my crime series, adding my website address and where the stories can be bought at KDP and Audible.
![1617204454139.png 1617204454139.png](https://colony.litopia.com/data/attachments/8/8548-38c24b6ff72e38cf591a87523ba495b8.jpg?hash=OMJLb_cuOM)
That would be on the flat rear doors of my estate, to be read when parked and in traffic jams.
This marketing malarkey is turning me into a tart! I’ll be hanging around beneath lampposts on street corners soon, tempting passers-by with “Pssst, fancy a crime novel, mister?”![Wink ;) ;)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png)
I might add this sticker to my driver’s door, just in case someone needs a novel written in an emergency!
What do you think?
I had a brainwave this morning (clunk!) while thinking about how British cars don’t need to display a road tax disc on the windscreen these days. Maybe, I could use my newly acquired Volvo as an advertising hoarding. Trades people use vinyl decals and magnetic signs attached to their trucks, so why not authors too?
I could get a decal made up using this image for my crime series, adding my website address and where the stories can be bought at KDP and Audible.
![1617204454139.png 1617204454139.png](https://colony.litopia.com/data/attachments/8/8548-38c24b6ff72e38cf591a87523ba495b8.jpg?hash=OMJLb_cuOM)
That would be on the flat rear doors of my estate, to be read when parked and in traffic jams.
This marketing malarkey is turning me into a tart! I’ll be hanging around beneath lampposts on street corners soon, tempting passers-by with “Pssst, fancy a crime novel, mister?”
![Wink ;) ;)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png)
I might add this sticker to my driver’s door, just in case someone needs a novel written in an emergency!
![71EvyvBBruL._AC_SL1500_.jpg](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71EvyvBBruL._AC_SL1500_.jpg)
What do you think?