I ve given this presentation a few times because it s important for authors to stay grounded When we start writing the only person we have to compare ourselves against is our favorite authors those people who have been writing for a while with a team of people making sure the stories are great nbsp We loved those stories hellip
Dear Indie Annie I m a new author about to publish my first book I m so excited but I m also a little overwhelmed What advice do you have for someone in my shoes Fresh Faced in Franklin Ah welcome my dear Fresh Faced I just want to mush your cute little cheeks together I am so proud of hellip
Gone are the days where evil doers stalk the night chasing down helpless victims while the law struggles to keep up Now a new hero rises one not afraid to toe the morally gray line in the name of what is right Their actions can set up the perfect adventure for readers to dig into More hellip
Chrishaun Keller Hanna on World Building Monsters and Merch Jenn Lessmann Chrishaun Keller Hanna wants you to know you are a success as a writer We are artists that use words as our medium she says We become writers the moment we say we are and we must be the ones that determine when we have succeeded For hellip
The Art of Successful Ads Steve Higgs For some Facebook advertising can be a hole into which they pour money with little or no return For others and I m one of them it is the source of a fortune You have to invest your money to find the things that work That s scary but when hellip
For the first couple of years after I became an indie author I struggled to get sales But when I changed my strategy to use paid promotional newsletters my sales grew significantly It took a big mindset change for me to offer my first in series for free but it completely changed the trajectory of my author hellip
Ever since I started my author Instagram account the app has been one of my biggest time sucks A lot of it stems from the fact that I can almost justify the time I spend there as being productive Watching other authors Reels and scrolling through aesthetic Bookstagram photos counts as research right But the app does hellip
Promoting your books can take any number of forms as you explore all the options available to readers But if you re looking for a way to attract a local audience to your story or meet readers at an in person event one option is to do an author reading You get to read an excerpt of hellip
Promo Newsletter Options for Every Indie Author David Viergutz Authors have long sought ways to send their work to the masses Pay per click ads social media direct sales events there are a multitude of options all with unique purposes nbsp The longstanding king of reaching readers has been through email where one email blast can send your book hellip
The social media platform with the biggest potential for 2023 and the foreseeable future is YouTube according to marketing guru Adam Erhart It s the second most visited platform in the world and over the past three years YouTube s partner program has paid out $30 billion to content creators nbsp BookTube is a thriving subset of YouTube channels that hellip
How These Nearly Invisible Data Collection Tools Can Boost Your Author Business Tiffany Robinson In today 8217 s digital age authors have many tools to increase book sales and reach their target audiences One of the most effective ways to do this is using pixel tags That s right those colorful little squares on your screen can do a hellip
Prosperity Starts with Promotion Honorée Corder As much as I love producing a book it s the promotion of a new book that really gets my juices flowing And because I know the other columns in this month s magazine are going to dive into the particulars of the different promo sites I want to share from hellip
A thought came to me the other night while I was down on my knees Alas I was not praying but cleaning out the litter box and while ten percent of my brain pondered the eternal verity of dust to dust the other ninety percent was in a fit of frustration after a misunderstanding with hellip
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