My fellow authors… Like many of you, I’ve been reading all the publishing insider’s 2015 industry predictions. The outlook appears quite dire and challenging, especially if you believe Mark Coker. I usually side with J.A. Konrath in these matters, but he has…
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50 Ideas to Help to Sell 10,000 copies of your Book (Reblog from Author James W. Lewis)
AD.com note: Three and a half years ago, I joined forces with author’s Stephanie Casher and James W. Lewis to form independent publishing venture – The Pantheon Collective. At the time, James was the debut author with his novel Sellout,…
Tagged with: author discovery, book advertising, book awards, book discoverability, book marketing, indie publishing, kdp select, Omar Luqmaan-Harris, qwantu amaru
Posted in Book Discovery, Book Marketing, discoverability, Reblogs
Posted in Book Discovery, Book Marketing, discoverability, Reblogs
5 Things Every Author Needs to Do to Improve Discoverability on Goodreads
I came across an article from HuffPo this week on How to Become a Goodreads Power User (and why you’d want to). Blogs like this are the exact reason why I created AuthorDiscovery.com. The article contains some helpful information but…
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Posted in Book Discovery, discoverability
Posted in Book Discovery, discoverability
10 Ways to Boost Author Discovery After Winning a Book Award
Winning is great isn’t it? Especially when what you’ve won is an award for your creativity in producing a literary work. My novel recently won a 10th literary award since its publication in December 2011, and after the initial euphoria…
KDP Select Still Works in 2013 (or how my novel was downloaded 17,000 times in 3 days)
One of my pet-peeves is the so-called marketing expert who has no proof to show for all their wisdom, knowledge, and so-called advice. With that in mind, I felt it is only right to let you know how my latest…
Book Trailers Don’t Increase Book Sales (but done right, they may boost Book Discoverability)
I came across an interesting article on The Four Hour Workweek site today that sparked my desire to write this week’s blog. Tim Ferriss does a great job explaining how he got 1 Million views for his video on The…
What’s happening with the Amazon Affiliate Program – An Update from Anthony Wessel of Digital Book Today
In February 2013, Amazon announced changes to the Amazon affiliate program, via their updated Terms of Service that states: if we determine you are primarily promoting free Kindle eBooks (i.e., eBooks for which the customer purchase price is $0.00), YOU…
5 Reasons why Amazon’s acquisition of Goodreads is a match made in heaven for Author Discovery and Book Marketing
If you haven’t noticed by now, I enjoy taking the contrary point of view whenever possible. When everyone is running to the right, I invariably have to go left. It is with this spirit that I review the recent acquisition…
Confessions of a Book Promotion Junkie – The Money Pit
These are the confessions of a book promotion junkie. What follows is a detailed account of my addiction and how I feed it. This blog post is rather lengthy with lots of numbers (and a little math) so consider yourself…
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Posted in Book Discovery, Book Marketing
Confessions of a Book Promotion Junkie – Free Dumb
These are the confessions of a book promotion junkie. What follows is a detailed account of my addiction and how I feed it. Authors note: I spent 12 years writing, editing, and preparing One Blood for the world. I have…
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