“Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.” –John Lennon After 15+ years of teaching elementary school, I resigned from my first grade teaching position in the middle of the first month of school. The stress had gotten so bad that I wasn’t … [Read more…] about Letting Go Of Self-Criticism
One of the most important ways to overcome literary rejections is to focus on healthy habits. When you get rejected it’s easy to fall into the trap of skipping your workout, eating junk food, and not answering your phone. Once you go down that path it’s hard to stop, so don’t even go there! Getting…
Every day for three months I checked my Kindle sales and let out a string of cuss words that made my dog blush. They were beyond awful. Then I developed the marketing strategies I’m about to reveal and sales took off. Within three days I increased sales by a factor of ten. Within two…
A few years ago, Yale professors Judith A. Chevalier and Dina Mayzlin did a study on the effect of user-generated Amazon reviews on sales . The authors made some fascinating observations: Good reviews significantly increase book sales 1-star reviews have a greater power to depress sales than 5-star reviews have to increase them Reviews are…
MAGA Supporters learn how to channel their inner Trump from evangelicals who “prefer saviors who weren’t crucified.” Amazon Turned A Simple Way Of Seeing Your Categories Into An Olympic-Level Pretzeling Event. It used to be you could scroll down your book page to find out which categories your books are in. No more. Amazon eliminated…
You will face a dilemma when you get to Kindle’s Before You Go feature: Every page you add after the end of your book decreases the chances that the reader will rate or share your book simply because they might stop reading before they get to the Before You Go page. This is not…
Know how to sell ebooks on Amazon with book marketing expert Michael Alvear. He’s helped authors go from cellar to stellar with the advice on this page.