How To Sell Books On Amazon – Writing For A Living

At its core, an “author platform” is the number of people that follow you in some way—through social media, speaking engagements, email lists, website traffic, articles, columns, etc. The premise behind an author platform makes a lot of sense: Build an audience that will buy your books. What nobody tells you is that the only…

Have You Run a FREE eBook Promotion To Jumpstart Paid Sales? Take this 8-question survey and find out how you did against other authors.   Why Participate? You’ll Remain Anonymous We’ll Send You Tabulated Results Why Participate? By taking this survey you’ll help build the first indie author database that gages the effectiveness of promoting FREE…

You can’t swing a cat without hitting a Kindle marketing article that tells you to use social media to sell your books online. Well, that cat needs to be put to sleep. There’s one and only one situation in which blogging, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social media can sell books: If you’re … [Read…

In this final blog post in this series we’ll be taking a look back and reviewing strategies for coping with and overcoming literary rejections.   In 25 Women On Overcoming Rejection Janet Fitch states, “When I sold my first book, a young-adult novel called Kicks, I had a party and I put my rejections on the…

Have You Used Amazon AMS To Sell Books? Take this 6-question survey and find out how you did against other authors.   Why Participate? You’ll Remain Anonymous We’ll Send You Tabulated Results Why Participate? By taking this survey you’ll help build the first indie author database that gages the effectiveness of Amazon AMS advertising. When…

You have a real shot at making Kindle cash. When I first published my ebooks they died on the vine. As of this writing, I’m selling about 1,200 books a month. Those sales are strictly a manifestation of the strategies in this blog. I don’t Facebook, Tweet, send out eblasts, clog editor inboxes with press…