Posts Tagged ‘Publishing’
This is Why Your Books Aren’t Selling: 4 Ways To Improve Now
*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…
Read MoreHow 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).…
Read MoreWhich 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…
Read MoreA Quick 8-Step Guide to Publishing Your eBook on Amazon! by @NBlackburn01
Cheryl Ives asked us how to publish and sell ebooks on Amazon. Since this is a large subject we’ve broken it down into a series called Publishing and Selling eBooks with Amazon. Today I’ll cover how to upload your book to Amazon. Congratulations, you have officially finished your manuscript. It is back from your professional editor.…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreWhat’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…
Read MoreTop 5 Considerations When Choosing How to Publish Your Book by guest @Booktrope CMO @ksearsbooks
Top Five Considerations when choosing how to publish your book Please welcome Katherine Fye Sears, CMO of my publisher, Booktrope, and kickass marketing chick, here to explain the three types of publishing (self, traditional, and hybrid), and the top five considerations of each. I encourage you to read and then pick her brain in comments!…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read More5 How-to Tips: Handling the Dreaded eBook Pirates by guest @macpetreshock
As you can see from the photo on this blog post, my book FIRE OF STARS AND DRAGONS has been pirated. No. The photo has not been Photoshopped. Yes. That really is over twenty-five THOUSAND downloads shown. TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND. For reasons of contractual nondisclosure, I can’t tell you how much money that lost me, not…
Read MoreTop Ten List of Truths for Self-publishers Part Two by guest @AP_Fuchs
Today we have the last five tips from A.P. Fuchs’ top truths for self-published authors. Take a look and if you missed it check out part one here. 6. Long gone are the days of just writing and nothing else. Like I said before, unless you catch a break or find yourself in Amazon’s…
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