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June 24, 2016
New Motivational Video: Deliberate Practice
Mastery is earned with deliberate practice. In this motivational video, Chris talks about the principles behind Deliberate Practice to achieve Mastery.
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June 17, 2016
Write to Market: Risk Versus Reward
In the third video from the Write to Market video series, Chris tackles the topic Risk Versus Reward. He shows risks he’s taken in categorizing his books and reviews his current earnings for his fiction and nonfiction books. By popular demand, Chris answers some of your burning questions! Subscribe for weekly videos from Chris.
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June 13, 2016
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21 Day Novel Writing Challenge
How to Outline Your Novel
How to Edit Your Novel
Launch to Market
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June 11, 2016
Write to Market: Finding a Hungry Genre
In this video, Chris shows you how to research “hungry” genres on Amazon to maximize your book’s rankings and reach on Amazon! Subscribe to my channel, new videos released weekly!
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June 10, 2016
Lifelong Writing Habit Released on Audible!
Are you tired of writing intermittently? Would you like to install a lifelong writing habit, one that gets your butt in the chair every single day? Then this is the book for you.
Lifelong Writing Habit draws on well-tested neuroscience to help you install a daily writing habit that will endure for life. It contains a simple-to-understand system, with actionable steps at the end of every chapter.
You’ll learn:
How to install a permanent writing habit
How to get organized
How to set and achieve writing goals
How to harness discipline and motivation
It’s time to make a permanent shift in your writing. Let’s get moving!
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June 8, 2016
Write to Market: Keywords & Categories
New video posted to YouTube! In the first video of this 7 part series, I go over the basic principles behind setting up keywords and categories to maximize your book’s reach on Amazon.
Write to Market: Keywords & Categories
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June 6, 2016
Void Wraith is Live On Amazon
My 13th book went live this morning! Void Wraith is the sequel to Destroyer, and may well be the best thing I’ve ever written. Hope you guys enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it!
May 9, 2016
Launch to Market is Live
Quite a few astute readers noticed that the release date for Launch to Market kept getting quietly pushed back. Sadly, this wasn’t because the book wasn’t written. It has been.
I’ve been so busy outlining The Great Pack and writing Void Wraith that I didn’t make time to get the book uploaded.
I finally got off my butt and did that, and Amazon made it available like 15 minutes later. Here you go!
April 29, 2016
Destroyer’s First 30 Days of Sales Data
On February 22nd I began the 21 Day Novel Challenge. I wasn’t sure if I could pull it off, and if I could pull it off I wasn’t sure if the book would sell. It was a scary experiment, but I committed to it.
I’m so glad I did. Destroyer turned out to be a blast to write, and the reviews have been largely positive. As of this writing it has 97 reviews, and 92% are either four or five star.
To contrast, No Such Thing As Werewolves took seven months to get this same number of reviews.
Destroyer is also my top seller, by far. In the first thirty days I had 927,793 pages read, and sold 3,836 ebooks.
One of the big metrics I tracked was sales rank. I boldly stated that Destroyer would crack the top #1,000 books on Amazon, and settle in somewhere under #10,000.
How did Destroyer do? The worst rank was #714, and the average for the first 30 days was #588 in the store. Wow. Just wow.
Finally, I was tracking mailing list subscribers. An author’s mailing list is the lifeblood of their career, because it gives us the ability to tell fans about new releases. I streamlined my process, using the short story Exiled as a reader magnet for the series.
The results were astonishing. My best month for subscribers was 150. When I started the 21 Day Novel Challenge that jumped to 500 signups. Destroyer’s first month brought in a thousand new subscribers.
So what are my conclusions? You CAN write a book quickly, and have it still be a good story. What’s more, if you write that story to market you can break into a brand new genre and make a good living doing it.
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