Interesting Links #4: Writing & Marketing Advice
This week’s Interesting Links are mostly about writing advice and book marketing. Topics in which I have great interest, needless to say. 🙂
-The most important truths are always the simplest. Figure out what your customers want, and give it to them: The Amazon Chief Who Obsesses Over Consumers.
-I’ve only ever actually done one of these. 9 Book Advertising Tactics I’ve Tried… And Which Ones Worked!
-Speaking of simple truths, this is a really good article for writing advice: 5 Habits Of The World’s Most Successful Writers.
-To be blunt, I don’t use beta readers. I think beta readers are kind of like training wheels for writers. When you need them, you really need them, but eventually you can go faster without them: Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing: Beta Readers Help You.
-A guitar teacher becomes a bestselling nonfiction author: Secrets Of A Seven Figure Non-Fiction Indie Author With Joseph Alexander.
-The nice thing about ebooks is that they stay “in print” forever, so if you don’t have a strong launch, it doesn’t matter. My book FROSTBORN: THE IRON TOWER sold waaaaaay more copies in June of 2016 than when it came out in July of 2014: Indie authors: Your Pub Date is Not As Important as You Think.
-People keep saying physical bookstores are doomed, but maybe they’re about to be reborn into a new and better form: If You Like Bookstores…
-Sometimes people ask me how to publish books on Amazon. Some nice person at Amazon just wrote a comprehensive guide on how to do so: KDP Jumpstart.
-If you’re going to do National Novel Writing Month next month (I’ll be working on the 2nd half of GHOST IN THE GLASS), then this article has some good advice: Want To Win NaNoWriMo This Year? 7 Tips On Writing And Productivity.
-JM