I've been using Wattpad (sounds like it works much like Authonomy) and Writer's Cafe (Another Authonomy) to cultivate my audience, but I also just put out a book that might help: Self-Publish Without Spending Money. It sounds exactly like what you're looking for, because you're not looking to self-publish without spending, you're looking to be discovered without spending, and a lot of the second half of the book is on marketing and sales without spending money. http://amzn.to/1EeBOuG
One trick that I and several other authors I know have been using is that we've created author pages on Goodreads. When people add our book to their to-read shelves, we can see who they are. Then we send them messages saying that if they can give us an honest review, we'll email them an epub or mobi version of the book. It's really helped boost all of our number of reviews.
As a side-note/related- I'm a consultant for authors in Iowa. If you want to brainstorm on marketing ideas, I'd love to start a conversation. I'm never on Livejournal and only found your post by accident, so please feel free to send me an email if you'd like to open a discussion. (matt (at) davenportwrites.com).
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Self-Publish Without Spending Money
Date: 2015-03-27 08:43 pm (UTC)From:One trick that I and several other authors I know have been using is that we've created author pages on Goodreads. When people add our book to their to-read shelves, we can see who they are. Then we send them messages saying that if they can give us an honest review, we'll email them an epub or mobi version of the book. It's really helped boost all of our number of reviews.
As a side-note/related- I'm a consultant for authors in Iowa. If you want to brainstorm on marketing ideas, I'd love to start a conversation. I'm never on Livejournal and only found your post by accident, so please feel free to send me an email if you'd like to open a discussion. (matt (at) davenportwrites.com).