Upcoming New Blog Series: Authors Helping Authors

I’m thinking about starting a new series on my blog, hopefully posting once a week (or so!) for maybe two months and calling the feature Author Tips or Author to Author, something along those lines. I get a lot of emails, tweets, Facebook messages, etc from other authors asking questions: should I make my book 99 cents or free for a limited time, do Facebook ads work, what is BookBub, how do you format books, how can I make my book an audio book, etc. I love helping other authors. Am I know it all in the industry? Not even close. For one, I’m simply not and can never pretend to be, but also, this industry is always changing. Was it a year ago, maybe just a bit more, that making your books free on Amazon was the thing to do? Not so much anymore! It’s all about the quick 99 cents promos. Goodreads had authors turning away the past few years, they are slowly gaining back their popularity. So it’s ever changing and can sure be a struggle to keep up. I also enjoying helping for a different reason – five years ago when I was first starting out, I asked a lot of questions, to a lot of different authors, and it was rare if I didn’t hear a response back. They were so helpful! And authors are busy people – we’re trying to write, we’re trying to edit, and more importantly – we’re trying to market ourselves. So to have so many authors get back to me and want to help me and want to see me succeed – I just want to keep that circle going.

So I have a few common questions that I’ll start out with (hopefully next week!) but if you see this post, please either comment or find me all over social media and ask a question and I’ll either expand on it in a blog post, or I’ll get back to with my answer! The author community is a special one and I’m proud and thankful to be a part of it!