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Instant Bestseller?? Count me in…

Posted in Author platforms, Choosing the writing life, marketing books, marketing fiction, tagged , , , on February 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »

I first came across Tim Grahl with his marketing book, Your First Thousand Copies: the Step-by-Step Guide To Marketing Your Book’.

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I followed him when he set himself a goal to sell 10,000 copies of his book in a year – The 10k Experiment – which he did (almost).

Now, he has an online training course, Instant Bestseller (visit http://www.outthink.com).

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I’ve been following Grahl’s blog for so long you think I would have taken some of his advice by now but…err…okay, I admit it, there may be a reason or three why I’m yet to crack the Bestseller list, or any list for that matter, and it’s called Marketing, or in my case, lack thereof. It seems my books aren’t going to sell themselves, at least sell enough of themselves to get on anyone’s list.

So I’m gunna do the course that promises to tell me how to sell my books.

But the question is which one…

This one?

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Anyone want to join me? Or you can just follow my blog as I set myself the goal selling some books.

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Finally…my novel

Posted in Book launch, book publishing, Books, Fiction, indie publishing, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 5, 2014| 2 Comments »

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Learning Scrivener For Writers – Part 2

Posted in Books, ebooks, Fiction, indie publishing, non fiction, print books, Writing, writing life, writing podcasts, writing tools, tagged , , , , , , on September 25, 2014| 1 Comment »

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The other day I shared my experience of working through a set of tutorials to learn Scrivener, delivered by Joseph at http://www.learnscrivenerfast.com.

I had no intention of doing another post on this but a funny thing happened on the way to completing the course…I cheated and skipped to the end to the Bonuses and found a great podcast by Joanna Penn (of http://www.thecreativepenn.com fame).

The podcast is all about organising your projects.

In my ideal world – let’s call it, say, Fantasyland – I decided to devote 2014 to getting half a dozen projects to completion with the grand idea of having something to market in 2015. Well, in my haphazard way I’m halfway there with three books completed and – remember, this is Fantasyland – selling.

But after listening to Joanna’s podcast on getting organised I realise I’m only a whisker away from having the other three done.

Back to Joseph and learning Scrivener. In my Scrivener binder I now have the final three projects for 2014 racing towards the finish line – Joanna even talks about daily word counts and a gizmo that does this in Scrivener – and yes, it looks like I can reach my goal of six completed projects for sale by the end of the year. If I wanna be clever I can double that because all are in both ebook and print formats (and I’m learning about audio books fast).

Twelve products for sale, me??

Joseph’s Learn Scrivener Fast has jettisoned my writing business out of Fantasyland and into the real world with one swift kick. Now all I need to do is go back in and finish the course…

Ah, I can hear my family laughing as they read this post. Me, finish anything?? In the infamous words of Eliza Doolittle, ‘Just you wait, ‘enry ‘iggins, just you wait’…

Anyone else doing Joseph’s course and loving it? Let us know your successes…

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Learning Scrivener For Writers

Posted in book publishing, Books, ebooks, Fiction, indie publishing, non fiction, platform, print books, Writing, writingReading writing fiction, tagged , , , , on September 22, 2014| Leave a Comment »

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Another journey….Scrivener. I’m currently working my way through a set of tutorials by Joseph at http://www.learnscrivenerfast.com so that I can take control of my writing in a way that hasn’t been possible for me to date.

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This program promises that not only can I organise my writing and keep count of my progress but I can take control of my output too…and herein lies the secret for me, being able to format my books as ebooks and print books, and upload them to the appropriate retailers in the right format. Sounds simple??

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Let me tell you, it’s not…I’ve been blessed with the support of Australian EBook Publisher (AEP)…but now it’s time to learn at least a bit of the process for myself and that’s where Joseph and his ‘learn Scrivener Fast’ tutorials come in…he is my Scrivener coach and can be found at http://learnscrivenerfast.com…

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book by book

Posted in book publishing, book tours, ebooks, Fiction, indie publishing, marketing books, middle grade fiction, platform, print books, social media, Teen Fiction, traditional book publishing, virtual book tours, Writing, tagged , , , , , , on June 15, 2014| 1 Comment »

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three middle grade novels ready to launch, market and sell

almost

to find out how

stay tuned

…let the countdown begin…

 

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Teen book buying habits…

Posted in book publishing, ebooks, Fiction, indie publishing, marketing books, Reading, social media, traditional book publishing, writingReading writing fiction, tagged , , , , , , , on February 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday’s post about reader book buying habits got me curious…how exactly does my fourteen year old daughter choose the books she reads and buys?

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Here’s the short answer:

1.  She checks out Goodreads and follows the links to authors and books that look interesting

2.  She reads School Library Journal blogs

3.  She reads Book Review sites (sometimes she finds links to these on Goodreads)

4.  She searches Common Sense Media to check for content and appropriateness (can you tell her mother’s a teacher?)

5.  She goes to Amazon and downloads a sample chapter

6.  If she likes the chapter she buys the ebook on her mother’s Amazon account

7.  And finally, if she absolutely loves it she is then allowed to buy the print copy (a rule instigated by her mother who nowadays has to stand at the door of her study to place aforesaid books on perilously high piles of books bought indiscriminately over many years of bookshop trawling)

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Conclusion…we love our local bookshop (and every bookshop between here and New Zealand) but the Internet has opened up our lives to a world of books we could never have otherwise found. We are voracious readers and will always love the texture and smell of books, and our house will always be full to brimming with the things, but our iPads with our iTunes and Kindle apps allow us the added pleasure off fossicking for reading treasure that until now we would never have had the opportunity to enjoy.

 

 

 

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Indie Versus Traditional Publishing…and the winner is???

Posted in book publishing, Fiction, indie publishing, marketing books, middle grade fiction, non fiction, platform, social media, traditional book publishing, Writing, tagged , , , , , , on February 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »

In order to look at the figures to decide whether indie or traditional publishing is the best option for our books we have to first find the figures – and it just got a little easier – see http://www.jakonrath.blogspot.co.uk or http://www.AuthorEarnings.com (this site had crashed this morning due to overload)…in ‘A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing: Me, Hugh Howey, and Legacy John’ some interesting figures (for some of us) come to light…not only is this article funny as all hell it is also the first time I’ve seen an open comparison of data on indie versus traditional publishing.

On the same topic, sort of, I contacted a literary festival co-ordinator here in North Queensland about our  middle grade reader novels being published in April and the woman told me that if I wanted to be part of the festival I needed to contact my publisher, or better, get myself an agent…wonder if it would help if I sent her a link to Howey’s article?

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