This is Why Your Books Aren’t Selling: 4 Ways To Improve Now

This is Why Your Books Aren't Selling: 4 Ways To Improve Now, BadRedhead Media, @badredheadmedia

*updated 2017 Your Books Aren’t Selling “My sales are awful, and I’ve done everything. I give up.”  I heard this from three authors this week, and it’s not an uncommon sentiment right now. As a bestseller author, former imprint director, book manager and book marketing consultant, my first questions are always: What do you mean…

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How To Develop and Perfect Your Book Marketing

I’m overwhelmed and honored that over the last two months, my first Broken book, Broken Pieces, has not budged from the #1 spot on Amazon’s Women’s Poetry list. It’s also #1 on Women Authors, and somewhere in the top 50 (as I write this, it’s #24) in Memoirs (overall ranking alternates between 1,100 and 2,000).…

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Which is right for you? A Quick Guide to KDP vs. KDP Select

The final post in our Amazon series has us looking at KDP vs. KDP Select. After our longer posts, this post is short and sweet because it is pretty straightforward. Any author can publish their book under KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). This is the basic Kindle publishing tool. This tool allows authors to upload their…

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The Reason Writers Conferences Are Worth It by @K8Tilton

Every time after a convention or writer’s conference, you’ll see posts going up about how the convention has taken a downturn and isn’t worth attending anymore. So many people seem disappointed in their experience and vow to skip the next convention in favor of something else. And I get it, I really do. In my…

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What’s A Publishing Imprint And How Did I Get One?

So here I was, all excited that Broken Places finally, finally released (yay!), and I’m in the down and dirty trenches of doing the marketing and setting up the blog tour and connecting with folks on social and blah blah boring stuff you’re already falling asleep, when I get an out of the blue message…

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The Publishing Plan by guest Jessica West (@West1Jess)

Please welcome back author and editor Jessica West to the blog today as she shares about the publishing process and how authors should plan for it. I read a great many articles about outlining a book versus flying by the seat of your pants, and they all make some great points, no matter which side…

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