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Today, the blog and its readership are arguably more valuable than the book itself. Share advice and tips related to your niche. Be as educative, informative, and creative as you can be. This 4-Hour Workweek blog is a good model to imitate. Check out this hideous mess , the earliest version of this blog. What you do on your Facebook page and Twitter page should be intended to benefit your friends and followers.

A foundation in conventional and Internet marketing can go a long way in helping you make Kindle sales. Eisler recommends four books on marketing to the aspiring author:. Recruiting and training evangelists with the power of social media is something any writer intent on commercial success should do. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! I love this book.

Price is a major advantage self-published authors have over published authors. Amazon offers two royalty structures for its Kindle Direct Publishing program: It is also a good idea to give away your book for free initially to jump start sales. If the product is good enough, it will spread through word of mouth and you can alter the list price accordingly.

The book description is important for telling the readers what to expect in the book. This is where you put your blurb and review snippets from bloggers. Look at books in the Amazon Top to see how they capture reader attention and write their blurbs. Gathering positive reviews will go a long way in pushing your eBook towards the bestseller charts. Your best bet is to leverage your existing relationships with your Twitter followers, blog readers, friends, and relatives to get positive reviews.

It also helps to create narrative arcs that span several books something that can be done with non-fiction as well to keep readers coming back for more. Haha… I personally prefer to take years between books and focus on ensuring that each one sells for decades. Once you are an established presence in the market, your name alone will attract the curious and the faithful. Or 1 or 2 books that sell forever. Eisler compares publishing to the lottery, where few can get in and even fewer can succeed. Did you like this post? Would you like more of this type of post? If so, please let me know in the comments.

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You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Remember what Fonzie was like? Have fun and thanks for adding to the conversation! Thanks to Brian Oberkirch for the inspiration. Like Liked by 2 people. Thanks for the comments, guys! Yes, my old blog is unbelievable. How did I think those colors would work out? Like Liked by 1 person. I look forward to sharing this blog—and your first—with my students. Thanks again for being a great guinea pig and guide!

Tim, as always thanks for an insightful analysis — with plenty of real world examples and resource links. Your presentation is straight-forward and makes it much more clear. I especially like the Marketing and Promoting section. I definitely would be interested in more posts like this. Ah, this is awesome. So many book ideas, so little time. Wake up every morning and put in 4 hours. Another awesome article, I will definably have to read all those marketing books you recommended.

Great post, Ryan and Tim.

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Tim, this is perfect. Goal is to have first book, Tales of Iceland, on Amazon in 2 weeks. Also, most of the world is still way behind the US in ebook adoption. Even in Iceland where they read more books per capita than any other citizenry in the world , ebooks are still rare…but growing.

So the good news is that as other countries catch up, the potential market will continue to grow. More like this, please! I think the most impressive stats is that digital sales just surpassed printed — This is extremely valuable info. Absolutely would consider doing digital-only. Thanks so much for this! You have been my mentor and friend in my head! I just finished my kindle ebook and I am working on creating an app talk about synchronicity!

This is very helpful! This is where I plan to go financially. Thanks for an amazing post. I was getting doubtful for a little bit, if I had taken a mistake for taking the summer term off. But as a student, I have very little to lose. But, alas, how in the heck am I supposed to take notes on such a great post, when the whole damn thing is worth noting?! I wrote a book some years ago about my time in the music business, and how to get a gig in that world — I hired a design student to lay it out for me using Adobe PageMaker, and he also did the cover.

I also sell it on Kindle, which is insanely simple. Great article but I am certain that the Stephen King, JK Rowling, and Stephenie Meyer did not make it big because they were mercenary about following pop culture trends and finding market niches. You will find it easier to write. It will sustain you through the writing process…and the blogging…and promotions. I do not try and hijack trends. Lifetime fan value done properly could be x that. Its like mixtapes in the music game.

Give it away for free and make 10x on your live shows instead. Can even be done with physical books, just book a distribution deal. Tucker realized the power of mass market self-publishing and evidently this is actually news to the publishing world, but rappers have been doing this both mixtapes and sub-labels to be distributed for decades. Time to catch up guys. You earn a repeat paying customer 2. They tell others that it was good so the exponential impact is amplified.

I love this post! This article have me lots to think about. Got me thinking for sure. Thank you for delivering great stuff again and again. Imformative blog, dropped by to check you out. It will enlighten everyone as to what goes on behind closed doors. All real names will be used in this novel to expose the truth. A book that is so compelling and graphic that has already caused an attempt on my life. The original copy of that book was destroyed during that attempt. After many years, I have decided to re-write the book.

Thanks for giving confirmation to my thoughts with your very informative blog. For those of you who are trying to format your book for the Kindle yourself, I recommend that you use Microsoft Word to do so. Great piece Ryan and Tim. You literally could have written a short ebook on how to write ebooks just using this article. Been a fan of this blog for several years but this just might be the best post. Thanks Ryan and Tim — really inspiring. And the million dollar question s: Ever checked the torrent sites? Software with DRM-cracking facilities? A substantial part of the music-industry went broke by the peer-to-peer networks.

You can use torrents to your advantage. Thanks a lot, very helpful info. I just watched the interview with BitTorrent, quite interesting too. Imho, the most valid argument you gave to go for ebooks is that they are here to stay. Even so, as you worked with BitTorrent, do you have any idea how many copies of the 4HC were illegally downloaded? Is this roughly measurable? I wrote years on it and am now gradually focusing on ways to put it into the market and promote it. What are your thoughts on publishing outside the Kindle store as well? I run Digital Delivery App, which is basically a modern e-junkie, and we have a load of e-book publishers who sell via their own websites.

I plan to start writing soon. Also, I would be very interested in learning how you built your supplement business back in the day. I have a few ideas about supplements but not sure how to start- legalities, manufacturing, etc. Amazon just recently started a more sophisticated cover creator. You can easily create a really nice cover in minutes. That sounds about right to me. But getting those checks from Amazon every month makes it all worth it. I work with many authors and they would love this post. Jamie McGuire, Jessica Park and Lauren Clark are all excellent examples of authors that have been incredibly successful going the self-publishing route.

Long pots but loved reading it till the end. I would like more of this type of post with steps we can straight use as a practical guidance. Reading on the Go!! I would like to see more posts with this format commenting on different industries. Tim, you need a word by which your followers can self-reference. You have reached and I am in awe of this a cult-like fervor. I am left to wander the wilderness, with no quick-way to identify myself as an evangelist for the tribe.

Tons of really useful information with links to much more. Thanks for all the info. All of them made it so complicated that my book is still unpublished. Until now one of the all-time favourite articles on your site was the one by Noah mentioned in this article. The detail is incredible and amazingly helpful in so many ways. My personal interest is in the development of online training courses, but is is so easy to see how everything here translates across. I fully plan to exploit the cr p out of every suggestion and resource in here.

I just wanted to add that Scrivener is awesome for outputting a Kindle mobi or an ePub formatted book which you can load straight to Amazon KDP. You can test it on a device which makes it much easier to know what your customers are getting before you publish. This seems to remain unknown in germany. The only bad point is, now I have 10 more tabs open I have to read.

Interesting to note also: By the time it sold k copies she got her publishing deal so she was already doing very well. I think the key in everything you wrote above is…quantity. All the people Konrath, Hocking, EL James, Hugh Howey who dominated the best seller lists in their categories did so by publshing multiple books one after the other. At one point, Howey was on the sci-fi list. I was at one Amazon event for self-published authors and there was one woman who was making a living from writing there who had published over novels.

Take all the covers and then just line them up next to each other. And hang it on my wall so I can see so much love every morning when I wake up. I would add that kindle books can be powerful marketing for your other products on Amazon. We have 8 video guides and 9 kindle books, all offering practical sex advice and proven pleasure techniques — and the kindle books are one of our best forms of publicity for the videos. Also would recommend adding a catalog of your products to the end of every book, with easily clickable links directing folks right back to the kindle store.

That way, when they finish a book they have loved, you can make it easy for them to get more right away. I was curious if anyone has any experience with E-Junkie to publish their ebooks? Tim this is legit. WordPress is pretty damn easy to use but it can become more complicated, I guess I just need to spend more time on it.

I emailed Matt Mullenweg last year and he actually got back to me. Following you has help me learn about some pretty awesome people. AJ Jacobs is pretty legit also. Any ideas on how to split the two and sell thru amazon? One strategy I borrowed from you was launching the landing page before the book was complete. One question for you: Have you already build your audience before launching it?

Amazon is great because it really help you market your books. Doing it in-house can remarkably increase profits but the toughest part is generating targeted traffic cheaply! This post is freaking fantastic start to finish. I always hear people saying that self-publishing will guarantee you make lots of mula. I need one but it totally scares me letting someone have my book. How do I find one?

In fact I read about books at the same time a week. I read one for an hour,Put it to the side and grab the next been doing It since 3rd grade. So others make sense of it cause I can go off on a tangent. Tim, a great blog post with lots of helpful advice for my own e-book challenge.

Maybe see you in Amsterdam in a few weeks. You have a best-selling cookbook and no one is going to call you chef. You have best selling fitness book and no one is going to call you a personal trainer. You have a best selling book in lifestyle and no one is going to call you life coach. I wrote an e-book and have not had the ovaries necessary to market it effectively. I was looking for direction and so checked to see if you had a new post.

Thank you for inspiring me once again. Somehow you have an intuitive mind that knows what your readers truly need to hear. That totally strokes their ego pardon the pun. Yes, if you have a blog that already has a solid following, this is a great place to cross sell a kindle book related to your blog topic.

But putting in the time to start a blog and gain followers just to hopefully get people interested in you enough to buy the book is a huge opportunity cost I think. Lets say after 2 years of a lot of hard work, you have a blog that attracts a solid 25, visitors a month in whatever niche you are in. So even after all the hard work of creating a blog with a solid following, you would only be cross selling 50 books a month. Unless you are already well established in a certain niche, your time is better spent focusing on perfect your amazon sales page, cover design, etc.

Same thing goes for other social media like twitter and facebook. It might make you feel good or productive that you are creating a facebook page, setting up a twitter, blogging, but the reality is it is not doing anything to convert any real sales volume. I would say only once you are well established, then start utilizing blogs, facebook and twitter to sell more books.

Tim the other Tim, lol I completely disagree. Look at Amanda Hocking…before anyone knew who she was and before she sold any books, she communicated with her potential readers via social media and her blog. But, there are many ways to approach the kindle store. Meaning taking an internet marketing approach to the kindle store.

Hiring ghostwriters to write high quality content for certain niches and marketing well. There are many ways to approach the kindle store. There are many test cases of people having 50 mini books in the kindle store in different niches with ghostwritten author names racking in 5, dollars a month. Or having 15 high quality full books taking in the same amount.

The Amazon domain gets high traffic, but a new title in a competitive niche can get buried. A blog provides more opportunites for search optimizations and direct response marketing. A book an Amazon supplemented by a blog and an email list has three traffic vectors, not just one. You just need a platform for an opt-in box to start building a list to drive prospects to Amazon whenever you have a new title. Andre, I totally disagree.

Paul, I disagree with you. Especially if you are relatively unknown. There are lots of blogs out there. Andre is stating that a blog is one of 3 avenues to pursue. And I believe he is saying that all 3 are critical.

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The other advantage of a blog is that you get to see how your audience reacts to your writing — both the topic, and the style. As you and your audience evolve, you can incorporate that into your writing. You can start to experiment with marketing and PR with a lower stakes effort so that bombed on that post, no big deal, compared to the fear of taking a step on a 2 year investment of time.

Blogging is playing low stakes poker before you go to the world championships. Thank you so much for the helpful tips. I recently wrote and published a German book in 24 hours: Your 24 Hours Success Book. I wanted to show people that they can make money and be successful if they only have a vision, an ideal, and the guts to pull it through to finality. The only thing I regret is not having waited a little longer with the print run, as I still found a few typos.

Genetically and physically enhanced, these monsters begin to turn on each other and their makers. Hoping to see good things here. The New Mexico Review 1, words new and emerging fiction with south western flare. Weird, dark fiction; slipstream; magical realism; horror.

Fiction with a touch of mythic quality. We want themes based around transformations—things that are shapeshifting, things that are emerging. We want a wide scope of voices, cultures, and perspectives. Arachane Press no more than words to celebrate the end of WW2. Weird Nature Anthology 2,, words. Emotionally charged, the work explores the theme of separation. Feb is the coldest month of the year here in Alabama so feelings of isolation and sorrow seem to dovetail my weather perfectly.

Armstrong was heavy handed. The opening and the middle felt intellectually insulting. I appreciate the attempt for artists by interspersing different narrative elements, but the execution left a lot to be desired. Great theming and ambition. The fantasy theme was notable, and given my preferences, made me more likely to enjoy it.

There were elements that I found distasteful. The female voice, in particular, felt stilted, as if the author had never spoken for very long with a woman or as if the author has only known and women in very shallow ways. But I thought the punch line at the end was worth the read. I really love Mary E. Her ability to summarize the last stories in a line or two, are pretty inspiring. She brings a childlike joy and wonder to the vast array and variation of space.

But her stories are written in a way I think all ages could appreciate them. She had deeper characters in her short than make authors achieve in novel length works. What more do you need? The story kept me engaged in each word. Overall, February was an interesting month for Daily Science Fiction. It has felt random as a reader, but collecting through collecting all the works I found value in, I hope to find patterns.

Check it out here. Adam Troy-Castro is a novelist and short story writers who writes most SF and horror. He also writes book review columns. There are a lot of good, in-depth movie reviews here. He teaches Lifewriting seminars and writes a lot about life coaching, Afrofuturism, and martial arts. John Scalzi is a hugely successful SF writer. His blog, Whatever , is extremely popular and often controversial. One of the cool things he does is to use his large audience to let others promote their books look for the posts titled The Big Idea: Several of her books are small press published, including her latest series, the Displaced Detective, which are about Sherlock Holmes transported to the modern day United States.

Maybe that should be another blog post to go over the various writing subreddits. John Picacio is a cool artist and an acquaintance of mine from a few conventions. Beatrice Lochley pulled her robe tightly across her sleeping gown. It was morning at Kimberley Manor and the warm sun was streaming through the bedroom window.

She walked to the balcony, overlooking the rolling green grounds. The gardeners were busy in the flower beds, trimming dead blooms and weeds. Soon it would be time for breakfast. She listens to the maids making their way through the halls, but they knew from prior unpleasant surprises not to disturb her. She returned to the room, careful to avoid looking at the canopied bed. There was a little wine left in the carafe on the nightstand and she poured it into a crystal glass and downed it with a grimace. The washbasin would be cold until they brought it warmed water, but it would have to do.

She removed the robe, not looking down at the bloodstained gown underneath.

She dropped it as well and washed. Blood coated her hands and chest and throat, but a few drops had made it onto her face. When Beatrice finished cleaning the worst areas, she wadded up the bloody towel, gown, and the stained robe and shoved them under the bed. Beatrice shuddered and grasped it, moving the husk from sight again. She had loved him, once, but now she felt numb of all feelings. No fear of what would happen to her now although she had no idea how this would play out. One quick look around the room and she crossed to the door, opened it, screamed at the top of her lungs, and collapsed sobbing.

Maids rushed from both left and right sides of the hall. A pitcher of fresh warm water shattered, forgotten on the marbled floors. Beatrice smells heavy herbal tea and greasy bacon. The first maid, Anges, knelt beside Beatrice and tentatively reached out her warm arm. Beatrice leaned into the warmth, shaking and crying.

Nothing this morning, or most of the past evening had been warm. From blood damp bed sheets to her small attempts to wash. Chill surrounded her and radiated from a once loving heart. Anges shushes her and pulls her closer. She knows what her concerns need to be if she plans to stay employed. Draw a bath for Miss Lochly. Strong sure hands grip Beatrice now.

They help steady her as she rises. Beatrice wants to tilt her head like a curious kitten. Who would have dreamed Agnes could be so strong and sure of herself? Taking empty dishes, cleaning dirty rugs, stoking fires. Anges is useful, but never worth a second thought. Now, comparing her firm certain grip to the tepid last struggles of Henry, she wonders what attracted her to that man.

That a servant woman commands such presence when Henry barely made his last moments memorable. Henry gave up long before Beatrice struck her killing blow, accepting his death the same way he accepted an unsightly gift. Maybe with Henry gone and this unsightly murder behind her, Beatrice would return some sense of control to her life. The manor and all its funds would be hers. Anges led Beatrice to the far side of the manor.

A rarely aired out section the family only uses for holiday visitors. Beatrice hiccups and wrinkles her nose at the old dust and imagined mold. She takes a few shuddering breaths. Sobbing lost its charm almost as soon as she took it up. Her body is tight with the tension caused from the pantomimed trembling.

Soon you can rest your bones in a nice warm bath. Captain Jonah Batson arrived just as Beatrice dropped her wet towel to put her evening clothes on.

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The thrill and the shock of her murderous action is wearing off and softer tender emotions are taking over. Agnes knocks at the door of the guest bedroom, and Beatrice jumps. He would like to have a word with you. Beatrice finished dressing, relaxed her breathing, and reached the door just as another knock came. Sorry for the intrusion but we must be getting on with this case.

I am still a tad bit shaken as you might imagine. Henry and I have been together for a good number of years and this is a complete shock to me. Based on my previous experiences, I like to get a first hand account of the situation from the witnesses if there are any. So what can you tell me about the events of last night and this morning? She had thought she would have more time. Her story was foolproof but her performance might be the deal breaker. Last night was like any normal night. Batson tears out of the room leaving Beatrice behind.

Beatrice rises and begins to follow Batson. No, they would know to avoid that room. Batson arrives to the master bedroom where the body still lies. At the window, Agnes stares down to the courtyard below, pointing down and sobbing. Batson rushes to meet her gaze. Beatrice stands transfixed in the doorway. Anges shakes her head, loosing a sob. Agnes prostate body caressed the stone. Blood dribbled down the crease of her mouth and into the lawn.

Captain Batson peered up to the second floor and back at Ms. Moments later, Captain Batson circles the body.

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