Besides sharing your own work, aspiring authors can connect
with other authors in their genre.
Exhibiting at these local and regional events lets you meet and converse with readers, network
with other authors in your genre, and learn more about industry developments.
Big ticket prizes are great for promotion, but to help offset the cost you might want to work
with other authors in your genre to create a «team» giveaway.
Connect
with other authors in your genre by reviewing books or passing along interesting quotes about writing.
«The easiest way to have a bestseller is to do partnership opportunities
with other authors in your genre.»
You're just focused on «how can I sell my book» and that's going to be your biggest problem because the easiest way to have a bestseller or a successful book launch is to have a partnership opportunities
with other authors in your genre.
If your book publicist works
with other authors in your genre, sometimes he or she will create cross-promotional campaigns.
But also, you are «making friends»
with other authors in your genre, and we all know how vital author collaboration can be.
And it's still not a bad idea in terms of setting up your also - boughts quickly, while building relationships
with other authors in your genre.
Join some groups and start making friends
with other authors in your genre or field.
I'd also like to do some aggressive platform building on Instagram and Tumblr; connect
with other authors in my genre, and basically become the «go to» guy for publishing and marketing YA fiction.
It's also a good way to build relationships
with other authors in your genre.
-- Networking
with other authors in your genre for mutual support and benefit — Finding ways to bring a lot of traffic to your and your book (like guest - posting)
Doing a round - robin multi-book giveaway
with other authors in your genre so your book is exposed to other authors» lists of subscribers
Work together
with other authors in your genre to share fans.
At the end of the day, with the business plan and building your author platform and remembering to pay it forward and work
with other authors in your genre, the whole concept of «The 7 - Step Guide to Authorpreneurship» is just to make it really easy, really simple for you to get started without you having to make the series, serious decisions «Do I traditionally publish?
For example, let's say you want to connect
with other authors in your genre.
You can also get together
with other authors in your genre and each contribute a story for an anthology, as did Kill Zone authors in 2010, with Fresh Kills, Tales from The Kill Zone.
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.
A traditional publisher will take care of much of this for you, often tapping into connections editors have
with other authors in your genre.
Unless an author can churn out a book a month, he's not competing
with other authors in his genre.
Use social media networks to identify and team up
with other authors in your genre.
You'll be matched up
with other authors in your genre, and given the opportunity to have your book advertised in their newsletters, in exchange for you putting their book in yours.
I've talked before about how doing boxsets and anthologies can be great for building your author platform — not only to reach more readers, but also to build long term relationships
with other authors in your genre.
If you team
with other authors in your genre who have a lot of readers visiting their blogs, it can pay off.
It's a great way to stay in touch
with other authors in your genre.
You make friends
with other authors in your genre.
Not exact matches
Share your stuff
with other writers you trust, join a Google or Facebook group of
authors in your
genre, share excerpts on your blog and ask for honest feedback.
If you get 10
author friends writing
in your
genre, that's basically 10 people struggling to build a platform that can share their readers
with each
other.
Consider getting together
with a few
other authors in your
genre to create lists of recommendations that include all of your group's books and
others that you enjoy or that have inspired you.
By bundling your work
with other authors, particularly if they are
in the same
genre, you stand a greater chance of reaching new readers, as well as a better chance of making money
in a «pay what you want» model.
For example, they can look at a book and then (like shopping
in real estate) they compare to
other books of the same length
in the same
genre with the same basic
author recognition.
While we have tried to develop formulas
with predictive ability
in this regard, variances
in genre,
author personality, and
other elements make it impossible.
«Because most people can read more than one book a year, you're not
in competition
with other authors so you need to start partnering
with other authors, especially
other indie
authors that are
in your
genre.
Another way to cross-pollinate is to do a multiauthor giveaway
with one or several
other authors in the same
genre.
It's also worth finding out whether you've received a fair offer — as
in, an offer that's on par
with other comparable
authors in your
genre or category.
17) You will get the following benefits
with your paid box set promotion package
with us - Sales, Tail of Sales, Follow - on sales of your
other books, millions of readers becoming aware of you as an
author, increase in Author Rank, KU Borrows, the possibility of becoming a genre bests
author, increase
in Author Rank, KU Borrows, the possibility of becoming a genre bests
Author Rank, KU Borrows, the possibility of becoming a
genre bestseller.
However, they're also adventurous, willing to experiment
with award - winning
authors in other genres.
What I mean is, start getting friendly
with other authors on your level and
in your
genre and discuss ways you can swap book marketing promotions for each
other's books.
«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.
Write guest blog posts for each
other and while you're at it, expand the circle
with additional
authors in your
genre and help each
other sell books.
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.
Authors load a detail from one of their projects — say, a tagline they're considering — and then PageFight will pair it up
with other taglines
in the same
genre and let readers tell them which one appeals more.
Even if I'm not making a profit from the transaction, helping
other indie
authors in my
genre is good business for me, because I'm doing them a big favor, and they may repay it by blurbing my books or sharing me
with their audiences.
In case you missed it, I'm currently in a free box set called The Paranormal 13 with a bunch of other hellaciously talented authors in my genr
In case you missed it, I'm currently
in a free box set called The Paranormal 13 with a bunch of other hellaciously talented authors in my genr
in a free box set called The Paranormal 13
with a bunch of
other hellaciously talented
authors in my genr
in my
genre.
Try out a wide variety of what's already out there,
with a particular eye toward
other authors in your
genre.
If you're writing a piece of fiction, you'll have a lot more leeway
in the design, but if you're a non-fiction
author with a textbook or manual, you'll want to stick pretty close to the conventions
other books
in your
genre utilize.
If you're a brand new
author with no track record to speak of, readers are understandably going to be hesitant to pay a premium for your book — particularly fiction — if there are
other similar books available
in your
genre.
For the self - publisher, this requires no little amount of research and a certain amount of socialization
with readers and
other authors in your
genre.
Networking on Facebook is a great way to meet and develop relationships
with customers as well as
other authors, experts, and key influencers
in your field or
genre, but it can be a challenge to figure out how to take full advantage the site's potential.