Many authors don’t even think about the interior design and formatting of their books. Yet it is critically important to your readers, AND to the sales of your books. Formatting refers to the way you enter paragraph and line breaks, indents, spaces, and punctuation marks. It includes the typefaces you use as well as how […]
How To Use Publisher Rocket To Sell More Books
Boost Sales with Publisher Rocket Are you looking for ways to boost your book earnings and save time on data research? Publisher Rocket can help solve your problems and increase your book earnings with fast, effective keyword searches. This fantastic tool is designed to help self-publishers build a solid and profitable book business based on […]
Marketing, Exposure and Sales
Today I got a message from one of my customers. I could hear the “pain” underlying her questions simply because I too have experienced (and still do experience) that same level of pain and frustration. I think that in my correspondence with her I had been blithering on and on about exposure. So she […]
How To SELL Your Book Using The “Look Inside” Feature
Are you using Amazon’s “Look Inside” feature to the Max? Are you using it to sell your book? Are you using it to grab readers names for your list, or send them to your website? Smart book marketers use the “look inside” feature to: encourage readers to hit the BUY button show potential buyers what […]
How To Get More Book Reviews: Amazon Reviewers
Amazon Reviewers LOVE posting reviews! There are thousands of Amazon reviewers who regularly post reviews! These are people who not only buy and read books, they are the readers who actually spend the time to REVIEW the books they’ve read. These Amazon Reviewers absolutely LOVE posting reviews. Some of them post dozens of reviews, some […]
How To Get More Book Reviews: Purchase Reviews
Yes, you can purchase reviews. Yes it is OK according to Amazon! If you are prepared to purchase reviews there are a growing number of companies that will help you. They stick to Amazon’s rules so you are safe. I have my ears covered and am hiding under my desk. Many of you are […]
The one thing that is sure to kill sales is BAD GRAMMAR and TYPOS
Take a look at these scathing reviews. 2-star review The concept was excellent. The execution fell through on many levels. He kept using there instead of their. I had to stop reading. . 1-star review Wish I had opened this book sooner, I would have asked for my money back. Very poor English usage. Even […]
Have You Fallen In Love With Your Book Cover?
I know you’ve seen some HIDEOUS book covers. I’ve certainly encountered my share of awful covers and can’t help wondering, “What are they THINKING?“ Back in the far distant past, when I was publishing “paper books” a customer said to me, “I could see your book across the entire room, it just popped out at […]
Auto Post To Facebook Groups
There are hundreds of Facebook Groups specifically focused on writing, authorship and self-publishing. Many of those groups allow you to “advertise” your Kindle book. If you do a rough count of the number of members these groups have, it comes to well over a million. So? Are you going to ignore a million people who […]
Choosing A Micro Niche Within The Historical Romances Category
Planning on writing a historical romance? The key to success is choosing a micro niche (sub-sub-category) that you know something about and that captures your imagination. If you don’t enjoy history, and don’t READ historical romances,this is not the place to start. There are plenty of other micro niches in which you can build a […]