One Day at a Time
We’re assaulted with so much information these days, that trying to market one’s work as an indie author may feel like an impossible task. There are so many social media and people giving advice on how to use it that keeping up plus doing the writing may seem overwhelming to the point where you want to give up before you start.
I’d like to share five ways in which indie author marketing can be made easier. With a little planning, they can even prove to be more effective.
It’s pretty obvious that to be a successful indie author these days requires more than a little marketing skill. What I’d like to do here is tell you some of the things not to do when engaging in indie author marketing.
The biggest ways I failed as an author trying to make a living from my writing was to depend solely on algorithms and price points to succeed. Not that these things aren’t important, but they have to be balanced with other ways of reaching one’s readership and connecting with them.
I ventured into self-publishing by accident really. I intended to release my out-of-print novel to get the work out there, for what it was worth. This was in 2009. At the time of its release, I discovered Kindle publishing (the only game in town, at that time). When Nook became available, I hopped onto that, too.
The volume of sales my book had at $0.99 turned out to be much higher than I could get when I priced the book higher. So even though I was earning a lower royalty rate, the volume of sales was so much higher, I was actually making more money.
Hi, Debbi Mack here, and I’m going to do a short YouTube book review of Blood on Blood by Frank Zafiro and Jim Wilsky.
“Dark and nasty good,” says Brad Parks. I’d say that about sums it up.