Discussion Groups can be a gold mine for generating interest in your book. Search discussion group sites like Yahoo Groups and Google Groups for groups that are relevant to the topic of your book. You can also search for discussion groups by subject matter. Type in the search engines +discussion +groups +mothers +young +children, for example. Join the groups that have at least 500 members and are active. It’s better if the group is un-moderated. You’re not going to spam, absolutely not. But groups that are un-moderated usually have higher activity levels. The posts don’t have to go through the time lag that’s required for the moderator to approve it. If the group is moderated you can see if the activity level is high by looking at the number of posts in a month.

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