Understanding the Editor’s Terminology
Editor terminology often trips up first-time authors, but don’t let this happen to you — see my handy guide.
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Another Kindle Publishing Income course: Bogus Claims
Dear readers, I partook in a webinar for Kindle Publishing Income, where an English lady called Sophie Howard told people about some fluffy white clouds on Amazon. All so they would be excited enough to part with a lot of money (USD 2,495 for the course and coaching sessions program). My aim here is not to offer a course review, but merely to point out that ludicrous claims are still being made by relative newcomers about selling books via Amazon KDP. The eBook publishing industry…
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Author Brand Cheat Sheet
If you’re lagging in social media followers and personal brand style, then you’ll want to read these cheat sheet tips for author brand strategy.While others specialise in marketing books, I prefer to focus on helping authors market themselves first. But why? This focus puts the author in the best place to then sell books, with simple tactics like emails to their list or a series of content posts. The trouble I had with launching earlier books was I had no platform. First steps were a…
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Ways to use Email Marketing – for Publishers
With a focus on those publishing multiple ebooks or books, here are my top tips for using email marketing to engage readers. I’ve heard from several authors that they don’t enjoy receiving emails so don’t send many, only one every few months. But the sending of regular information is critical to building up a happy list of readers, so don’t be shy… just mix it up! 1. Always use an Email Marketing System that’s EasyEmail marketing can easily get out of control with a manual…
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Why Hire a Non-Fiction Writing Coach?
If you’re writing a non-fiction book, like self-help, how to, spiritual, etc, you may find that you come to a point where this writing stuff is making the hair on your head fall out. Rather than see all that hair on the floor while you re-write your first two chapters, you might want the support of a non-fiction writing coach. What writing coaches do is support your main book writing goal, help you at the start with an outlining technique (see our mini-course), and regularly point…
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Weaving Stories into our Author Talks
The thirty eager authors looked at me expectantly. Would today be the day they learnt how to take control of their book marketing? The ‘19 ways to get book publicity’ may have bombarded their brain a little, but the presentation proves that one can do many things to grow our presence and sell more books. Some of those things only take a few minutes — such as claiming your book at Amazon Author Central — and some take a few hours — like creating an author…
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