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December 4 - December 4, 2017
I suggest you read these books to help you on your way. You are a Writer by Jeff Goins, 5,000 Words Per Hour: Write Faster, Write Smarter by Chris Fox, and 30-Day Author by Kevin Tumlinson.
Some topics can be covered well in seven to ten or even fifteen thousand words.
The Nifty 15: How to Write Your Book in 15 Minutes a Day (The Prosperous Writers Book Series), you’ll realize you absolutely can find the time to write your book.
sell them on these platforms: Amazon Kindle Audible iTunes iBooks BarnesandNoble.com Kobo.com Draft2Digital
Amazon’s CreateSpace (for print) and ACX (a.k.a. Audible, a channel for audiobooks) provide multiple ways and versions and therefore multiple streams of income for self-publishers.
Other major companies have jumped on board, so you’ll want to check out Apple’s iBooks (https://www.Apple.com/iTunes), Barnes and Noble’s Nook (http://www.NookPress.com), Kobo, which is huge in Canada and actually distributes to over 190 countries all over the world (https://www.Kobo.com/WritingLife), as well as Draft2Digital (they distribute to all of the major online distribution channels, including libraries; https://www.Draft2Digital.com).
You can’t go wrong by pricing your book in the middle of the road ($4.99–$7.99 for ebooks and $12.99–$17.99 for paperbacks).
And buyers start to wonder if the book has substance if it’s priced below that point unless it’s a temporary promotional price.
people believe “you get what you pay for,” and if you book is priced too low, they won’t buy it out of the fear it will waste both their time and money.
Visit HonoreeCorder.com/AmazonLove for how to launch your book effectively on Amazon.
You can also have an exclusive relationship with Amazon and choose to enroll in KDP Select. KDP Select requires distribution only through Amazon (so you cannot, according to their terms of services, sell the book anywhere else, including on your own website), and by enrolling you have the option to participate in Amazon Marketing Services (I talk about this a bit later) and get paid for page reads by Amazon customers who use Kindle Unlimited.
your book(s) can and should be the property of an actual company that is owned by you.
find a link to download a copy you can use at HonoreeCorder.com/YouMustBonuses. The tasks on the checklist are roughly in order,
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Contact BookBub & BuckBooks.net for a promotion. BookBub is the kingmaker of the indie book business. They provide daily deals to their list of subscribers for books that are free or on sale for $0.99, $1.99 or $2.99. Their list is huge, and if you are selected for a BookBub promotion, it can help catapult your book into Amazon’s stratosphere. Don’t lose heart if you aren’t selected on the first go-round, most aren’t. You can resubmit every thirty days (so
If you haven’t already begun to build a list, create an account with Aweber, MailChimp, or the service of your choice. A great email service will allow you to email your contacts without hitting their spam filter.
you can use ClickToTweet.com to help your advance reader team, fans, and followers help spread
Be sure to create a Goodreads Author Profile and claim your book. Even while your book is in the pre-publishing phase, you can create a profile, participate in on-going discussions, and even start a group (much like on Facebook).
We launched with 150 five-star reviews (our goal was at least 100), which helped to propel our book to best-seller status even before our official launch day and has kept our book in the top five in its category since then.
During your soft launch (the day your book goes live, which is three to four days before the publicized date of your book launch), you should price the book at $0.99 specifically so that your ART can purchase it (more on that later). Be sure to review Amazon’s policies where reviews are concerned, so you don’t run afoul and end up having them deleted or worse (end up in Amazon jail).
ART. For example, check out Pat Petrini’s version for The Miracle Morning for Network Marketers: http://tinyurl.com/PatsOptin.
About three weeks before the launch, send your ART an advance review copy. You’ll want PDF, .mobi (for Amazon Kindle), and .epub (for the iPad and all other digital readers). I use BookFunnel (http://bookfunnel.com
action steps: a) Post daily videos. b) Send those videos by email to the list. c) Give resources to share. d) Start threads at least once a day. e) Give encouragement, celebrate special moments, and be positive whenever you can. f) Make it easy for them to share your message by providing tweets and photo posts. g) Ask them to change their FB photo to a square graphic of your book for the day (it will show up on their timeline, and all their contacts will see it). You’ll need a 2400 x 2400 pixel square version of your book cover for this, which your graphic designer can easily provide (you’ll
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verified reviews carry five times the impact of an unverified review.
Raise your price to $2.99 on your official launch day, and leave it there for about three days. At $2.99, you get the 70 percent royalty rate from Amazon, so you’re making around $2.10 per book (versus $0.35 at the $0.99 price point). For days four through six, keep an eye on your Amazon rank and sales. If sales are strong, you can either ride the wave of a lower-priced book for an even higher ranking, or you can slowly raise the price by a dollar every day or so.
Offer bloggers advance reader copies. Research bloggers who love to read and write about books in your area of expertise. Providing them with a copy of your book will allow them to read it and share it with their audience.
Add your book to your LinkedIn Profile.
The agency I work with, Grand Communications, is a full-service boutique PR agency based in New York City.
Here’s a great article from Kobo Books on how to do just that: http://tinyurl.com/MemorableBook
You can even read a testimonial here (http://tinyurl.com/BDTestimonial) from someone who discovered one of my books at my local carwash!
