This month, October 2016, Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing is highlighting great writing by indies with its #PoweredbyIndie Celebration. From what we can tell, the inclusion of titles is based on direct author upload to KDP, Createspace, or ACX, paid sales, number of reviews, and average reviews. There may be other criterion, of course. They’re promoting […]
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Building a Publishing Empire Through Speaking and Events
Before we dig in, a message from Pamela: Fighting for Anna comes out November 4th, and I need your support. How? People most often buy books based on some kind of recommendation. By Amazon. By word of mouth. By their friends on social media. And often authors’s friends want to help them but don’t know […]
SkipJack is Alaska-bound
SkipJack Publishing is off to Alaska this week, where Pamela Fagan Hutchins is one of four anchor presenters at the Alaska Writers Guild Annual Conference in Anchorage. She’ll conduct a half-day workshop on publishing strategy called “Let’s Talk (Publishing) Money” as well as participate in a panel and share knowledge in a “Let’s Talk Readers” breakout session. […]
Drawing In Readers with Rock Star Book Events
Well, I recorded another class from the wilds of Wyoming . . . and here’s the scoop: We’ve all seen the downcast author hiding behind his towering table of unsold books, alone, at one of the big box stores, haven’t we? We veer to avoid him, lest he shatter our vision of a packed house […]
Readers’ Favorite Gold Medalist: R.L. Nolen
Congratulations to SkipJack author Rebecca “R.L.” Nolen for her gold medal in the 2016 Readers’ Favorites for her thriller, Deadly Thyme. We are so proud she’s one of us! To see what she has to say about contests, read her post on taking advantage of these golden opportunities.
How to Sell a Ton of Books in 5 Simple Steps
So you’ve written a book. It’s for sale on Amazon, your own little Field of Dreams. You’ve strong-armed everyone you know, and they’ve all promised to buy it. To read it. To review it. Only they haven’t, and it’s not selling. Meanwhile, your mother’s told everyone and their three-legged dog about her son the author. Her […]
Next SkipJack Retreat Announcement!
October 7-9, 2016 “Just Do It” Writers Retreat (Focus: Finishing, Revising, and Doing It Again) Join award-winning, best-selling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins in the Texas Hill Country—only 1.5 hours from Houston and Austin—for a two-day weekend writer’s retreat. “A breakthrough weekend for me.” David Welling “I learned an enormous amount of useful information in a short […]
How to Score a Bookbub Promotion and Take Your Book to the Top
We’ve been busy at our new online SkipJack Publishing school. We released our first ever free webinar (How to Sell a Ton of Books) and our first two full-length courses: How to Get More Book Reviews in 10 Surefire Ways and How to Score a Bookbub Promotion and Take Your Book to the Top. You can learn more about them […]
Should you migrate your books from Smashwords to Draft2Digital?
If you’ve read this blog a long time, you know I view aggregation as a necessary evil. I use it to get my books onto Nook pre-order and free. Others prefer it to save the time and labor it takes to manage their literary assets on 6-7 sales sites, although no aggregator eliminates the need (or strategic […]
Holy Wear-Me-Out Workshop versus Webcasts
There are some things as an author I always say yes to. Speaking about publishing and promotion to other writers is one of them. But man is it exhausting work! Plus sometimes I’ll randomly start doing or saying something part way through, something unplanned, that later makes me cringed. That’s me in the picture above, […]