LONG LIVE YOUR BOOK
How to reach more readers, create more opportunities and give your book a life beyond launch
A book is for life, not just for launch day
Jo's new book - due to launch 1st December 2026
Be among the first to hear when Long Live Your Book is available.
Plus, everyone who joins the waiting list will be entered into a launch-day prize draw to win a signed deluxe edition of Long Live Your Book.
by Jo Wildsmith
LONG LIVE YOUR BOOK
You’ve written the book. You’ve published it – or you’re getting ready to.
What happens next?
Too many books are treated as though publication is the finish line. There is a flurry of activity around launch; everybody gets terribly excited for a few days or weeks, and then attention moves on.
Long Live Your Book is about what happens when you stop thinking of your book as a one-off publishing event and start thinking about the life it can have afterwards.
It can keep reaching readers, opening doors and creating opportunities long after launch day has passed.
And none of that requires you to spend the rest of your life frantically marketing it.
Your book can have a much longer life
In Long Live Your Book, Jo Wildsmith draws on years of independent publishing experience to explore what gives a book momentum before, during, and after publication – and how authors can keep that momentum working over time.
The book looks at understanding your reader, building interest before publication, making sensible use of launch activity, creating opportunities beyond book sales, strengthening visibility and relationships, making use of older books and backlists, and deciding what is genuinely worth your time.
It also asks a bigger question:
What are you building with your book?
This is not a book about doing everything. It is about understanding the possibilities, choosing the ones that make sense for you and your book, and giving your work the chance to keep doing its job long after launch day has passed.
Whether you write fiction or nonfiction, are preparing to publish your first book or already have several sitting on the shelf, Long Live Your Book will help you think differently about what your book could still become.
In Long Live Your Book, Jo Wildsmith draws on years of independent publishing experience to explore what gives a book momentum before, during, and after publication – and how authors can keep that momentum working over time.
The book looks at understanding your reader, building interest before publication, making sensible use of launch activity, creating opportunities beyond book sales, strengthening visibility and relationships, making use of older books and backlists, and deciding what is genuinely worth your time.
It also asks a bigger question:
What are you building with your book?
This is not a book about doing everything. It is about understanding the possibilities, choosing the ones that make sense for you and your book, and giving your work the chance to keep doing its job long after launch day has passed.
Whether you write fiction or nonfiction, are preparing to publish your first book or already have several sitting on the shelf, Long Live Your Book will help you think differently about what your book could still become.
In Long Live Your Book, Jo Wildsmith draws on years of independent publishing experience to explore what gives a book momentum before, during, and after publication – and how authors can keep that momentum working over time.
The book looks at understanding your reader, building interest before publication, making sensible use of launch activity, creating opportunities beyond book sales, strengthening visibility and relationships, making use of older books and backlists, and deciding what is genuinely worth your time.
It also asks a bigger question:
What are you building with your book?
This is not a book about doing everything. It is about understanding the possibilities, choosing the ones that make sense for you and your book, and giving your work the chance to keep doing its job long after launch day has passed.
Whether you write fiction or nonfiction, are preparing to publish your first book or already have several sitting on the shelf, Long Live Your Book will help you think differently about what your book could still become.
Long Live Your Book is coming soon
Join the waiting list and be among the first to hear when Long Live Your Book is available.
You’ll receive publication and launch news directly from Jo Wildsmith Publishing, including details of how and where to get your copy.
Jo's brand new book - coming soon!
Get the latest publication news and be entered into the launch-day draw for a signed deluxe edition.
How many copies of the book can you see in this picture?
1) Count them and email the number to Jo at [email protected] (Prize for the closest guess)
and then
2) Ponder that picture. Where else could your book be? (That's a prize in itself!)
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