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Month: August 2014
J. R. R. Tolkien’s 10 Tips For Writers
Sage words from the master of fantasy storytelling. 🙂
Essay Mama is an unusual site, providing students with essays. Even more unusual is the fact that they produced a lovely infographic on Tolkien, with some tips they gleamed from his correspondence. Enjoy!
Infographic by essaymama.com
Do You Spend Money On Book Marketing? | Just Publishing
It’s funny how certain among us talk about the same things on our blogs. I broached this subject on mine, not too long ago… 😉
My Links Worldwide
Ok, so maybe you do need reminding. 😉
I’ve done the hard work for you. you don’t even have to search. Here is a complete list of all the Amazon pages worldwide where you can find my Kindle books. Just click on the one nearest you to go directly to them. Nothing could be simpler.
USA http://www.amazon.com/Jack-Eason/e/B003MEA7AY/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1391810789&sr=1-2-ent
UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jack-Eason/e/B003MEA7AY/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1403637845&sr=1-2-ent
India http://www.amazon.in/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=Jack+Eason
My eBooks at Amazon.com
As if you needed reminding. ,)
Here is a gentle reminder of my books currently available via Amazon
Click the above link to go to Amazon.com
How Many Books Does an Indie Author Sell?
Author rankings and other stuff…
INDIE BOOK SALES
If you self-publish a book, how many copies should you expect to sell?
To me, this number is much higher than many of the popular numbers floating around. I will try to explain why I believe this.
The most popular estimate to throw around may be 100 books. Not per month. Not per year. Ever.
Other popular estimates are somewhere between 300 and 700.
I believe that any committed author should expect to sell much more than this in the long run, and I also believe that most committed authors either do or will.
BOOK SALE ESTIMATES
There are many ways to estimate the average number of books that an indie author sells by analyzing data that’s available.
You could study Amazon sales ranks, both Kindle and print. Sales rank interpretation, though, isn’t quite as easy as it seems. There are seasonal effects; as the number of…
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Indie Author Coat of Arms!
Just what we all need. A Banner to rally behind. 🙂
Celebrate Indie Authorship with this colorful reminder of our Independence! If we’re not having fun writing, we’re not doing it right!
Click on the image to print this poster, to go with your copies of Desiderwriter and the Authors’ Anthem. All handouts will be available on the Downloads page, too (see main menu, above).
Please advise if any of the PDFs don’t load or print correctly. I’ve used a large number of decorative fonts in my downloadable documents. If ugly, sans-serif fonts are substituted, it means the decorative fonts didn’t embed properly. Thanks!
As Writers, We Demand To Know!
In fellow writer Derek Haines’ recent post Who Are Your Readers, he raises some pertinent points regarding demographics when it comes to the literary world. Without exception, all publishers be they traditional or self do not pass on the information to we writers. Why? Because they keep it to themselves, guarding it jealously to sell books. We’ve all seen examples of how they use it. Think about those annoying emails from Amazon et al. You know the ones I mean. They begin with “Since you showed interest in etc, etc”.
Well, as the writers of those self same books, we also need access to that knowledge!
Just think about it. Wouldn’t you like to know which gender your books appeal to? Which genre is selling? Which is not? As Derek says, you can’t draw any real conclusion from reviews these days, since their value was cheapened by the likes of Amazon and Goodreads when they gave over their review systems carte blanche to their inhouse trolls, and the growing number of self important armchair critics and pedants that crawl out of the woodwork.
As a writer, what do you think?
When we write a book, no matter the genre, in effect we are reduced to adopting a ‘hit or miss’ approach. Will it sell, or won’t it? If the publishers shared the knowledge with us, it would go a long way to deciding what that next book would be. If, like me, you write purely for the eBook market, you soon find out that the largest market for that particular format is the US. No one told me. I had to find it out for myself!
What about paperbacks or hard cover? Which countries are hungry for them? Which are not? Which country loves Fantasy? What about Adventure? Which gender prefers which genre?
All this information is held in secret by all publishers. If only they would tell us, we wouldn’t spend months writing a book that no one wants to read. But then again, when have publishers given a tinker’s cuss about writers?
My fellow writers, do yourselves a favour and reblog the living daylights out of this post to all the writers you know. It’s high time we showed all publishers that we mean business. Let us become organised!!!
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