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Elaine Bateman Could rapidly releasing your books be the fastest way to financial success Well it might be one of them What is rapid release The rapid release strategy is to publish each book quickly enough that the previous book in your series is still in its launch window allowing you to take advantage of hellip
Like many creatives I suffer from a terminal case of bright shiny object syndrome I see ideas everywhere and run after them like a puppy chasing a ball leaving old ones by the wayside I ve also developed the terrible habit of stopping too often to check email social media notifications or reply to text messages hellip
Getting the Word Out About Your Book Emilia Zeeland We ve all been there Exhausted over caffeinated and anxious about our next launch wondering how to not just attract attention to our new release but also turn that initial buzz into a ravenous fandom Regardless of whether you are preparing a launch every year or every month hellip
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore 8211 Christopher Columbus January is a month for fresh starts and looking forward to a year full of exciting possibilities We ve made our goals we ve set our plans in place Now it s time to put them into action nbsp hellip
Why Wide Authors Need A Custom Launch Plan Laurel Decher Book launch plans are all over the internet including the twelve in my Read Later folder They are fun to look at but can be dangerous for your author business You want your book to blast off into a fuel efficient orbit and find more readers hellip
Organizing the Workflows of Writing Greg Fishbone Notion is the organizing tool I didn 8217 t know I needed but now can 8217 t live without The slick web and mobile app interfaces collect notes tasks and projects together into a single Swiss Army knife of information Other tools might do a few things better but I 8217 ve found nothing hellip
Simply put Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform For those wondering what that means crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project by raising small amounts of money from a large number of people If you re like many folks your knowledge of the Kickstarter platform begins with that electronic cat accessory you almost backed and ends hellip
Adding Tension to Your Stories Kasia Lasinska Tension is not just reserved for Thrillers it spans across all genres In Romance there s sexual tension just kiss already in Dystopia there s the ever present threat that one wrong move could draw the attention of the government in Horror we have things that go bump in the night which hellip
A Recap of the 20Books Vegas 2021 Conference In November 2021 roughly sixteen hundred authors descended upon Las Vegas to attend the annual 20Booksto50K® conference Bally s Las Vegas Hotel hosted the event for the first time the increased number of attendees showcasing the growing popularity of the conference It also marked the return of the hellip
Dear Indie Annie I know I need to run ads if I want to grow my revenue but all the numbers are making my brain hurt ACOS CPC Impressions CTR I am trying to keep them straight but all the acronyms and calculations are confusing me I can 8217 t remember what the letters stand for or hellip
Jac Harmon How many times have you heard yourself say If only I had more time to write Probably far too many One popular and well proven method of increasing your productivity within your available time is to alternate periods of focused work also called sprints with short rest breaks nbsp The Pomodoro Technique The Pomodoro technique hellip
Gill Fernley Indie authors have so much to think about and learn and that s before you even tackle the world s most enormous to do list There s writing editing finding beta and ARC readers social media emailing your list and on and on Oh yes and having a life So how do you get it all done hellip
Using Feng Shui to Frame Your Magic System Sine Mairi MacDougall Magic systems can be one of the most fun parts of world building Readers also obsess over this part of fantasy They are looking for clearly laid out rules so many authors base their fantasies off known systems This gives readers something familiar allowing them hellip
Merri Maywether In a sentence Women s Fiction is written by women for women It isn t that the genre is exclusive men can and have read Women s Fiction titles However the author writes with the female reader in mind Relational sagas love stories and generational stories all make up the commercially written books that tap into hellip
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Follow along as book launch expert Tim Grahl teaches you the fundamentals of launching a bestselling book Based on his work with hundreds of authors and launching dozens of top New York Times Wall Street Journal and other bestselling books he will share the insights and step by step tactics you can use to launch your own hellip
How Elana Johnson and Liz Isaacson Jessie Newton and Donna Jeffries left traditional publishing to inspire indie success Nicole Schroeder Over the fourteen years she s spent in the self publishing industry Elana Johnson has learned to use her strengths The USA Today bestselling Romance and Women s Fiction author and CEO of AEJ Creative Works Inc is good at hellip
What do authors Salman Rushdie and Chuck Palahniuk have in common with a small army of indie authors They re actively publishing newsletters and creative content on the newsletter platform Substack Let s look at why this new platform might be the hottest place to publish your next novel and connect with a whole new group of hellip
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