Author: KJ Eastwick
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Let’s talk TiKTok
KJ Matthews is a newbie at TikTok. She joined in the belief that’s where young adult authors found their market. By the time this is released, she’ll have been on TikTok for a month (give or take a day). We asked her, her opinions of the platform for someone who had never used it before…
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C.L. Cannon’s Book Fair
Post-publication, authors need to advertise their books. There are a variety of ways to do this. There will be a heap of other ideas, but today, we are focusing on online book fairs. To look at a live book fair, go to https://clcannon.net/bookfair . Here the organiser has created links to hundreds of books and…
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Book Sales Strategy #2 The Backlist
This should be Strategy 1. A debut author with one book to their publishing credit will make initial sales to their friends and family. After those sales, they need to do an incredible amount of marketing for every sale they make. We’re sorry, but very few people (and we’re talking less than 0.0001% (almost infinitely…
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Book Sales Strategy #1 Rapid Release
Let’s play a game of pretend. You’ve been writing for a while, and you can write and edit to a reasonable standard. You have maybe 500 social media followers from your author persona, but you are a newbie author. You know nothing about self-publishing, but you’ve invested time (and money if you have any) into…
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Book Sales Strategies
If you haven’t already started to think about book marketing and how you will find non-friend book buyers, now is the time to do so. When you set up your Sales Strategies, there are several aspects to consider, and as we are not drawing in multiple millions in profit, we have a long way to…
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