How to Make a Living with Your Writing: Books, Blogging and More

by Joanna Penn

Choose your categories Categories are the genres and sub-genres that you will find on the online bookstores, for example, Romance > Historical, or Thriller > Conspiracy. You assign these to your book when you self-publish and your choices will be critical for discoverability. Spend some time deciding on the best ones for your book. Think about how people shop on the online book stores or on devices. They will usually drill down into the sub-category that they like to read, for example, I like to surf Thrillers as well as Action Adventure, and in non-fiction I will always check out the latest books in Entrepreneurship and Business. Those count as categories and they can be quite granular. You can choose to apply two or three categories to your book on most online stores, but a lot more on Apple if you publish direct. Just log onto whichever store you're publishing on and check the dropdown for categories to see your options. For more on categories, check out this webinar replay with K-lytics: http://k-lytics.com/replay-joanna-penn

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