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How to Get Your Book on TikTok

The algorithmic behemoth can cause any book at any time to have a viral moment, selling out and back-ordering titles in mere days.

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Sent from my iPhone’ . . . to really long, in-depth [emails]. [They say,] here’s the summary. Here are the quotes that blurb the book. And I always really appreciate that level of preparedness and professionalism,” Halverson said. Show you’ve done research in your initial contact email and illustrate why a BookTok creator would resonate with your book. Does your book fall in line with other books they’ve positively reviewed? Do you also love an author a creator speaks highly of? Does a creator review books in your genre?

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