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Paul Whybrow

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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.

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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?” ;)

I might add this sticker to my driver’s door, just in case someone needs a novel written in an emergency!

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What do you think?
 
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