Dear Reader,

We met at the National Conference of African American Librarians. I’m Troy Johnson founder of AALBC.com (African American Literature Book Club). AALBC.com was started in 1997 and has grown to become the largest, oldest, and most frequently visited website dedicated to books written by or about people of African descent.

Even if you are already familiar with the website, you many not be familiar with the many different ways our website can help you connect with new readers. Given the size and age of our website we are able to attract most of our visitors through search. In fact, more than 73% of our traffic comes from search. You may review our websites analytics to see how the last 3 million visitors discovered AALBC.com.

Most of our visitors are interested in African American Literature, in fact you’ll discover AALBC on the first page of 1,000’s of search results* for terms like “African American Literature”, “Black bookstores” (Huria.org is our website), or over 1,000 popular authors like “Toni Morrison”. This makes AALBC.com uniquely positioned to get your book in front of readers of African American Literature.

We also provide a wide variety of resources to support authors and many useful articles including; “New Self-Publishing Literary Award to Promote Diverse Books in Libraries” and “5 Things Writers Must Do To Survive Online.”

We also publish a monthly eNewsletter, full of book recommendations and related information. If you are interested in receiving our eNewsletter; click here to be added to our mailing list.

The most common question we get is, "How do I get my book on your website?" The answer to this question is in our FAQ (question #7). I’ve pasted the answer to that question below. I trust that you’ll advantage of some of these tactics.

Answer: There are 9 ways (6 are ?Free or very close to it!):

A few of you have already reached out to me and I will get back to your shortly.

*Your search results will vary

Peace,

Troy Johnson,
Founder AALBC.com