This is a guest blog post written by Blake O’Connor, author of award-winning novels including ‘Unspoken Bond’, a former top100 Amazon Kindle book. She’s writing today about the decline in Amazon’s KENP royalty. Pamela, thank you for inviting me to write a guest post for SkipJack’s blog. And a big congratulations on Heaven to […]
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Promoting Nonfiction
A timely re-blog about promotion. Fiction, Non-fiction…it’s a daily grind to keep up with promotions and to “out think the beast.” Over here at SkipJack Publishing, we are in 24 hr trial and error, keep on thinking, brainstorming, researching mode. It’s tedious and time consuming. It’s Necessary!! And it can be fun. Be a fan […]
Online Promos: What’s Working Now
Happy Thanksgiving! We thought now might be a good time to re-visit Online Promos: What’s Working Now. The holiday season is upon us and Books are a favorite gift. The following information was gathered following the release of “Going for Kona” one year ago, around Thanksgiving 2014. It’s still relevant and working. Some of […]
Good Help’s Not Hard to Find
If one follow’s the lead of Harlan Coben (skilled and successful thriller writer), then an author should plow every cent of their revenues in their first five years of publication back into promotion, to build their brand and longevity. If I’m not mistaken (and tell me in the comments if I am), Harlan also did […]
Amazon Crossing Launched for Translations Submissions
Been thinking about using Babelcube.com or retaining a translator to create your foreign translations? If so, me, too. And I still may. But in the meantime, I learned yesterday that Amazon has launched Amazon Crossing for translations. Here’s the deal: you pitch your book, they decide whether to partner with you on it. I haven’t […]
Nook Promoting Indies? Who’d’a Thunk!
You know how I said Kindle Unlimited was the subject of this week’s planned post? Well, it was. Until I got an e-mail yesterday that was even more interesting. First, the backstory: Two years ago I did 70 Barnes & Noble events in ONE YEAR (and that’s not counting the other 80 events I did at other […]
Groundbreaking Indie Print News: The Big Gaping Questions Remain
No matter how you approach it, Jamie McGuire’s new deal with WalMart is groundbreaking. Jamie left her sweetheart Atria deal to go indie—for happiness/control reasons, I hear—and parlayed the success of a (traditionally published) novel into a trilogy that has resulted in landing one of her indie books on WalMart’s shelves in select stores. A CreateSpace […]
New and Nifty Feature: Author e-mails to Amazon Followers
One of the most serious drawbacks to driving sales on Amazon (in the past) has been that an author can’t directly promote to her Amazon readers. It’s in the best interest of both Amazon and the author that the readers most interested in the author receive information that leads to future sales. Amazon has done its […]
Has the Amazon Ranking “Algorithm” Changed?
Amazon ranks product sales within categories on its website. That includes books. Amazon allows pre-orders (pre-sales) of e-books by both traditionally published and independent authors. In addition, traditional and independent authors both promote their books through non-Amazon sites and sources. A few months ago—April 2, 2015 to be exact—I released Heaven to Betsy. I offered it […]
Selective Quality Control Courtesy of KDP?
Interesting. I’d heard people were starting to get threatening emails from Amazon about pulling their books down for spelling errors. I’d even heard some had their books pulled. I just hadn’t received any emails myself. I use multiple layers of professional editing and as a result, my books (not my blog posts; they are not […]