I’ve started this post multiple times over the years but decided to put everything together in one place, so you can get help fast. So real quick: Harry Potter keywords can help you think about a fantasy audience, but that doesn’t make the series name a keyword to put into an unrelated book’s KDP details.
Social media marketing for authors can be tricky, but I acquired a cool tool to make design templates for authors earlier this year and promptly never spoke about it again… so here it is, with a coupon code for free lifetime access. So wait, what is this exactly? Graaphics.co is a simple and light tool
Hey this is Derek – one of the clients I work with has been having a great release – #1 in 7 categories, dozens of books sold a day, and over 12 physical book signings in Barnes & Noble. Generally, I dissuaded authors from focusing on Brick&Mortar sales because it can be a lot of
This is a long article on author marketing, but if you just want a quick PR boost or author marketing service, scroll to the bottom and click “Launch My Book!”…A common question I get in my private facebook group goes like this: “my book is published but I have zero sales and no visibility, and I
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I’m reposting this news to give it a signal boost – concern was raised by author Katie M. John who shared this image: This is alarming, since so many of us use Facebook as part of our book marketing and promotion strategy. Katie wrote a great summary so I’m posting it here: Okay, I’ve seen the
Quick Answer Pronoun shut down in 2018 because free book distribution is not a viable business — here’s what replaced it. What’s Pronoun and what does it matter? Today was supposed to be the day I share testimonials from students and start wrapping up my course launch – but instead it’s important to comment on
A few years ago I started collecting quotes and book marketing tips from publishing experts – I put them up online and divided them into topics for easy navigating, but forget to tell anyone about it. Someday I’ll organize the content into a book or course, but for now it’s all free. If any
I was pretty sure I sucked at Amazon ads. Which is mostly fine: I’m still making money and I figured I couldn’t *really* spend big on Amazon ads until I had a bunch of finished series out. Tonight I took a look at the ads I’m still running. My average cost per click is about $0.30;
I’ve talked before about how doing boxsets and anthologies can be great for building your author platform – not only to reach more readers, but also to build long term relationships with other authors in your genre. And I’ve talked a lot about doing book giveaways to encourage shares and promotion; and also about doing
I’ve been seeing a trend for a couple years that goes like this: Set up a coffee shop or book store that “supports indie authors” and charge writers $25 a month to put their books on your shelves. It sounds like a good idea. A bunch of writers coming together to build their own bookstore.
This is my first year of publishing fiction – so I concentrated on building a big list and was very careful with what I shared. However, now that I’m focused on my books generating income, I’m prepared to promote other (talented) authors in my genre to my list, in exchange with them promoting my books
Archive note: This interview was published in December 2016. Chris Fox’s earnings, advertising results and plans describe that period. This is an interview with indie author Chris Fox, a fantasy novelist and YouTuber who has been killing it for years and is a self-publishing legend. It’s part of an online Q&A we did on Facebook...
