Adlander Phil Taffs Utilises Skills To Launch First Novel

Adlander Phil Taffs Utilises Skills To Launch First Novel
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You never know when your adland training will come in handy. Former senior write for Mojo in Melbourne and creative director, Philip Taffs, utilised his skills to market his novel, ‘The Evil Inside’.

Taffs says: “My advertising training has been invaluable in promoting the book.  Writing the book is only one half of the job.  The second equally important part is knowing how, when and where to pitch it.

“It becomes a product outside yourself and you need to swap your subjective author hat for your more focussed marketing hat.  Hard to believe but sometimes I forget for a moment that I am the author of this book.”

In addition to the publicity generated by the Aussie publisher, Hachette, Taffs has marketed the book himself via paid Facebook ads, LinkedIn posts across various advertising and literary sites as well as self-made cinema advertising.

Taffs, began writing his novel ‘The Evil Inside’ – then called ’The MacCallum’ in 2003.

After writing numerous drafts and being rejected by more than 70 publishers across three continents, he finally decided to self-publish in 2012.

The self-published version earned a glowing review from respected US reviewer, Kirkus, and Taffs used this as ammunition to approach a new batch of UK publishers.

In 2013, world rights were bought by Quercus in the UK – publishers of the famous ‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ series.  The book underwent more editing and the title was changed to ‘The Evil Inside’.

Since being published in December 2014, ‘The Evil Inside’ has sold 4,000 copies in Europe and also been released in Spain, Portugal, Australia – and has just this week been pegged for a possible US release.




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