There is so much to cover design that it deserves its own post, but basically, it should fit in
with other books in the genre and look great in postage - stamp size.
You aren't only in competition
with other books in your genres — your author platform is in competition with the author platforms other writers are developing.
Not exact matches
What You Need To Know:
In a year where there's plenty of
other movies involving battles
with aliens for the fate of the earth («Oblivion,» «After Earth «-RRB-, there's one that's going back to a lauded classic novel of the
genre,
with the first adaptation of Orson Scott Card «s beloved
book «Ender's Game.»
Check
other books in your
genre and sub-
genre to make sure you are cuing
with your cover correctly.
For a guy who has edited Toni Morrison, Nora Ephron, and
others, he comes as across as a seriously uninformed dick who delights
in «mansplaining» everything that is wrong
with a wildly successful
genre (that earns enough money to pretty much keep the rest of the industry flourishing and off life support because there are only so many painfully precious lit fic
books one can read before wanting to go to a poetry reading and sarcastically catcall the people at the mic) that is dominated by women who for the most part seem to know what they are doing and drive 90 % of the innovation
in book marketing and sub-genres.
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.
Connect
with other authors
in your
genre by reviewing
books or passing along interesting quotes about writing.
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.
«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.
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.
The title shall be written from a Christian worldview (specifically, the
book should not contain profanity, graphic sex, gratuitous violence or
other objectionable material, and must be consistent
with a traditional interpretation of Scripture)
in any Christian fiction
genre.
All the
other books you're competing
with in your
genre are being subjected to the same ranking criteria as you and things are moving all over the place.
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 bestseller.
For two, three or four days, you gather
with other readers, writers, librarians,
book dealers, literary agents, editors, magazine publishers — all of whom are seriously
in love
with the mystery and crime
genre.
An informal series of guest posts and interviews
with other writer - bloggers
in your
genre can get your
book in front of just as many potential readers.
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.
A quicker way would be to check out
other similar
books in your desired
genre / topic, then connect
with the Amazon reviewers of those
books.
Your
book should fit
in perfectly
with other books in the same
genre.
If your
book publicist works
with other authors
in your
genre, sometimes he or she will create cross-promotional campaigns.
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.
Or perhaps they'll publish a particular series through traditional publishers and then self - publish
other material «for fun»
in different
genres, or at different lengths and
with different approaches, either as experiments or to fill
in the gaps between big
books with their traditional house.
I'm kind of a data person so I've got spreadsheets
with my
book, my bestseller ranking, the number of sales, and I've tracked many
other books in my
genre the same way, to get an idea of what's going on and how much the bestseller ranks fluctuate.
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.
With the ability to sort and filter titles by
genre, many readers tend to begin their
book searches within their preferred
genre; this
in turn leads to Amazon (and
others) recommending new titles based on previous reading preferences.
-- 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
It's so much better to build a huge list
with giveaways, then use them to get a ton of downloads and
book reviews; or encourage them to buy your
book along
with some
other bestsellers
in your
genre (I'm going to do both, using different lists for each).
This increases your chances of becoming a
Genre Bestseller
in your
book's
genres because you reach the perfect set of readers for your
book 7) There is no
other book promotion company
with comparable reach
in Apps or Twitter.
Users can chat
with each
other about various literary
genres and talk about
books they want to read or are
in the process of reading.
While romance novels tend to be on the «quick and easy» thin side of
book length,
other genres with titles like the Game of Thrones series or the Harry Potter
books lend themselves to more wordiness and are therefore catching up to romance
in terms of ebook sales thanks to Baddeley's theory.
But always remember that you're competing
with all the
other writers
in your
genre,
in the world, and you're only as good as your last
book.
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.
The cover art is atrocious and renders the
book uncommercial when competing
with other titles
in the same
genre.
Indie authors sometimes team up
with others in the same
genre to produce
book bundles for promotion rather than profit.
Developing this community by reading
other contemporary
books in your
genre, promoting those
books on your own social media, and connecting
with those folks (
in that order, please) is one of the best things you can do to set yourself up for success.
I started Happy Indulgence
in July 2012 as a way to share my passion
with others, and it has expanded into a YA
book review blog encompassing a wide range of features and
genres.
I spent time on social media — commenting on
others» blogs, getting involved
in Twitter, talking on forums that dealt
with my
genre, writing or just
books in general.
Thanks to Amazon's algorithms, my
books became associated
with other popular
books in the
genre, so if they climbed the ranks, so did mine.
Jana, the first step I take
with any
book is to do a competitive analysis — see what
other books in your
genre / category are doing
in terms of size, length, cost, etc..
I write
books under
other names
in other genres and for one of my series my second
book hit the best seller chart
in its category
with absolutely no promotion except that it was mentioned
in the back of
book 1
in the series.
Blog tours are a lot of work, but they can be a great way to get more eyeballs on your
book, as well as help you make connections
with book bloggers, reviewers and
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.
I couldn't care less if it's trendy or marketable or more or less the same story but
with different names as all the
other books in that
genre.
It makes more sense to trade
book reviews
with other indie authors
in your
genre.
You can apply to swap blurbs
with books outside your
genre, and it's fine for building reviews, but the most effective use of BlurbTrade will be building your author platform by getting your review on to
other books in your
genre.
Popular fantasy author Rachel Aaron joined us today to talk about succeeding
with books that straddle
genres, launching later
books in a series, and turning your writing into a business, among
other topics.
This could help you
with getting onto the right kinds of also - boughts, those of
other books in your new
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.
You write
in a vacuum or for a professor who frowns on
genre; you workshop
with other writers; you craft a query letter; you appeal to the tastes of an intern at a literary agency; you claw your way out of the slush pile; you hope to win over an editor at a major publishing house; your
book comes out a year later and sits spine - out on a bookshelf for six months; it gets returned to the publisher and goes out of print; you start over.