A couple of years ago, I wrote a list of my ten rules of the road
for fiction authors who are just getting started with sales and promotion.
For convenience, I've organized this page into the following areas of writing and publishing: Best
Advice for Fiction Authors Best Advice for Indie Authors Best Advice for Freelance Writers Best General Writing Advice Best Advice...
Some three months back, I received an email from Amazon announcing their Kindle Scout
programme for fiction authors that I just filed away because till then I had only written... Continue Reading →
WRITE EVERY DAY is specifically
geared for fiction authors who are juggling busy home lives, work lives, and the new pressures to «build a platform» while simultaneously producing more books.
Best thing I can tell you is to have fun looking at what everyone else is doing... especially YA fiction authors... and you'll start getting ideas... to do it YOUR way... but building social media numbers by simply following other people... can be
easier for a fiction author than spending too much time writing blog articles just to try and build a following.
What it doesn't point to and what is key for authors to be aware of, is that even if ebook is the most profitable
format for fiction authors, print is still important.
Bill Platt, I've promoted his products in the past and Bill is a go to adviser when I'm stuck, has just released a really detailed
training for fiction authors.
Self - publishing isn't
just for fiction authors: Alison Jones shows how you can use it as part of a business strategy (p13); and Jon Reed offers some thoughts on content marketing gleaned from this year's Publishing for Digital Minds Conference (p14).
These aspects of a book press release that I'll list here may go against the grain or «rules» which some marketing people adhere to, but this has worked for me time and time again garnering significant media coverage contributing to some sell out
events for fiction authors.
My friend Bill surprised all of us by letting us know he had been selling these amazing training specifically
created for fiction authors to his list of clients.
I also realize this might sound like gobble - de-gook so I will explain further using the example of my non-fiction book, and also my novels, because keywords can also be
important for fiction authors.
But it can be
hard for a fiction author to find the right «voice» in a blog and compete for reader attention with all the helpful «how to» blogs out there.
Some three months back, I received an email from Amazon announcing their Kindle Scout
programme for fiction authors that I just filed away because till then I had only written non-fiction.
Finding books to help non-fiction writers with their craft is much more difficult than finding
books for fiction authors, but they do exist.