From the host’s website: “This is the best advice I have heard for beginning ALL authors in a long time. In this podcast you will hear some of the best most down to earth advice, and you will notice that Mike really cares about you struggling authors out there. My favorite part is not the… Continue reading
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How I Sold 978 Fiction Ebooks Per Day in 2014… (The Complete Breakdown)
First, Let’s Talk About My Goals For YOU… (You Can Skip This, But I Think It’s Important) This is my goal for you in reading this: Learn how to sell more books. Period. There is nothing to sell here except an idea that might change the way you view writing fiction professionally. Minus the incredible… Continue reading
Kindle Unlimited Isn’t The End Of The World For Authors. Here’s Why…
Authors are up in arms over Amazon’s most recent launch of the Kindle Unlimited service. I guess I see things a bit differently. Fact: Reading for fun is on the decline (source: The Decline of the American Book Lover & The Number of Teens Reading for Fun Keeps Declining). Fact: Ebooks trend opposite of that… Continue reading
Your Stuff Sucks And It Will Still Make Money. I Promise.
I have two friends who are trying to break out of their desperately boring jobs and journey across the great divide into entrepreneurship. They have chosen to write books for Kindle. I have chosen to help them. What you are about to read is an email that I sent trying to light the fire under… Continue reading
Lessons Learned From Selling 4,335 Copies Of Two Self-Published Non-Fiction Books In 8 Months
8 months ago I published Copywriting For The Rest Of Us and Video Marketing For The Rest Of Us out of frustration. To make a long story short, Copywriting For The Rest Of Us was written in a day using Dragon Naturally Speaking and Video Marketing For The Rest Of Us was an info product I… Continue reading
Lessons Learned from an Indie Publishing Project
This is a guest post from author Stephen Gallup. A few years ago, a coworker of mine self-published a novel. Larry’s was by no means the first self-published book I’d read (and enjoyed), or even the first penned by a coworker. However, I was at that time considering self-publication for my own opus, and so gave… Continue reading
How To Choose A Genre To Write In
When I first starting writing fiction, my #1 question was: “How do I choose which genre to write in?” Since my background was is in marketing/entrepreneurship I became obsessed with trying to mimic the the great financial successes of other authors. People like: Stephen King J.K. Rowling R.L. Stine Nora Roberts James Patterson And others…… Continue reading
Inspiring Authors To Stay Connected – Guest Post By Author Carrie Wynne
Inspiring Authors To Stay Connected J.K. Rowling’s was one of us. She didn’t have any special circumstances. She was a single mom who was broke and living on social assistance. She had a vision and an inner knowing and the courage to hang on to it. 12 Publishers rejected her book. A small house called… Continue reading