Newsletter swaps is a system whereby authors can find
other authors in their genre who also have a newsletter mailing list full of readers, and they can then exchange book recommendations.
Take the time to cultivate relationships on Goodreads with
other authors in your genre who are doing well and whose writing you admire and respect.
If you team with
other authors in your genre who have a lot of readers visiting their blogs, it can pay off.
Not exact matches
Follow people
who complement your brand and
other authors in your
genre or niche.
So, if an agent gets queries from two different
authors who've written books
in the same
genre, and both projects are great, but one
author has a big social media following and the
other one doesn't,
who do you think the agent is going to choose?
Cross-promote by finding
other e-book
authors who write
in your
genre.
Find online - savvy
authors in your
genre — or compatible
genres —
who like to blog, are on Facebook or Twitter, or release content
in other interesting ways (like podcasting).
«There are some
authors in other genres — romance is particularly good for this, as it is for just about everything else —
who are also encountering huge success with this.
If I was considering writing a new
genre to make money, or if I was a serious introvert
who did not have the time or opportunity to network with
other working
authors, I would absolutely without a doubt order a K - Lytics report on that
genre before attempting to write
in it.
You can find them by searching for book bloggers, also by following
other authors in your
genre or area of expertise to see
who's reading them.
The best way to find an editor is by asking for recommendations from
other authors who have published quality, successful books
in your
genre.
See where
other authors who share your
genre have taken part
in.
If you don't already have a short list of
other indie
authors who write
in your
genre, you should.
You can target people
who read the
author's
in your
genre, like films and / or
other general interest topics that are similar to your own.
You can even create an anthology, recruiting
other authors who write
in your
genre.
Go to the Etsy home page and type
in some keywords to find
other authors who are selling similar books
in your
genre.
Ask
other authors who have published
in your
genre before and you will get many recommendations for an agent.
In a video podcast with author - coach Joanna Penn (Penn advises and teaches other authors), Sharp talks about a genre - agnostic quality to self - publishing that means a lot to writers who, like her, have been told in legacy publishing that variety is not the spice of succes
In a video podcast with
author - coach Joanna Penn (Penn advises and teaches
other authors), Sharp talks about a
genre - agnostic quality to self - publishing that means a lot to writers
who, like her, have been told
in legacy publishing that variety is not the spice of succes
in legacy publishing that variety is not the spice of success.
In fact, Ross tells Publishing Perspectives that one criticism of the pro forum involved genre: literary fiction authors and those who work in «minority genres» that don't typically sell as robustly as others might never reach the levels of sales that popular - genre authors d
In fact, Ross tells Publishing Perspectives that one criticism of the pro forum involved
genre: literary fiction
authors and those
who work
in «minority genres» that don't typically sell as robustly as others might never reach the levels of sales that popular - genre authors d
in «minority
genres» that don't typically sell as robustly as
others might never reach the levels of sales that popular -
genre authors do.
Social Karma and Co-opetition: Joanna also discusses ways
in which you can collaborate with competitors (
in this case
other Authors who possibly write
in the same
genre).
One of the advantages of the new digital publishing industry is that we are able to offer titles from talented
authors previously overlooked by traditional markets or
who write
in genres transcending standardized categories of fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, and
others.
Abbott purchased a piece of marketing software called Tweet Adder that enabled her to make contact with people
who followed
other authors in the same
genre.
As someone
who writes
in a couple very different
genres and has some work with publishers while I've self - published
other titles... I get so tired of hearing
authors rage against the
other side.
One criticism that particularly interested me had to do with the intersection of fiction writing and judging, making the point, among
others, that
authors who write fiction know the lives of their characters intimately and
in great detail because they plan them, and it is wrong — presumptuous — for a judge to give the impression by adopting a fiction
genre style that he knows a litigant as thoroughly.