Amazon Kindle E-book Reader
Nobody was more surprised than I was to learn that my mystery, Big Lake, had risen to number 23 in the Paid Kindle store, number 4 in Bestsellers in Mysteries & Thrillers, and even more amazing, it was listed at number 76 on the New York Times Kindle Bestseller List! The book has been in [...]
In late August, I wrote a blog post titled The Importance of Setting Goals, in which I said that when I uploaded my first e-books to Amazon’s Kindle bookstore in late May, I had a goal of earning $300 a month from e-book sales within six months. The September sales report is in, and I [...]
All of my life, I have believed in setting goals, both personally, and in business. I have always felt that if you don’t have a goal, how can you know where you are going, and which path to take to get there? I also believe that goals have to be specific. It’s easy to say [...]
As I wrote in my last blog post, The Rules Have Changed, I am taking some first steps into e-book publishing, and I will be sharing my progress in blog posts here. I’ve spent a lot of time reading and researching publishing my books for the Amazon Kindle recently, since Amazon is responsible for the [...]
Writing your book is the easy part, in my experience. Marketing is where the real work starts, and most successful self-publishers I know spend more time on their marketing efforts than they do in the writing process. // As you may already know, I sell very few books through traditional bookstores. I use Lightning Source [...]
In addition to advertising revenue, don’t forget the power of your blog as a marketing tool. We hold two RV rallies a year for our subscribers, and as soon as I announce the dates in my RV blog, registrations start rolling in. When I announced in my RV Blog that we now have T-shirts made [...]