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What’s Working for 2017 in Online Book Promoters

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at SkipJack Publishing!

Let me introduce myself. I’m Candi, and I am one of the publishing assistants here at SkipJack. I work specifically with Pamela, and assist her with the majority of her marketing and publicity tasks. She promotes discounted e-books (99 cents) and free e-books. She’s tried promoting print, audio, and full price e-books online, but found that she gets a positive ROI only on 99 cent and free e-books.

The Closing CoverWe thought it would be a good time to re-visit online promos, and what’s working now. The holiday season is upon us and books are a favorite gift, thus it’s considered by many a great time to promote yours.

Before we start, and speaking of online promotions, we wanted to let you know that SkipJack author Ken Oder is offering his novel The Closing for the discounted price of 99 cents in e-book form through Black Friday, in conjunction with a BookBub promotion. Be sure to snatch up your discounted copy this week, HERE.

Back to our topic: In April of this year, we switched out Pamela’s lead free romantic mystery of the What Doesn’t Kill You series, Saving Grace, with Heaven to Betsy, the 1st of the Emily novels. Pamela felt Saving Grace needed a rest as a free title, and she wanted to offer Heaven to Betsy free since we’d just released Hell to Pay, the 3rd Emily novel.

The following information was gathered over the past twelve months. It’s still relevant and working. Some of the prices and subscribership have gone up, but the impact of these sites remains the same.

So, what’s worked on Kindle (60%+ of eBook market) for her free mystery? I’ve listed our latest run with each promotion company.

1.) BookBub: June 14; $505; 100,000+ free downloads with 1,580,000 mystery subscribers (not all Kindle; see below); rigorously curated and highly respected

2.) http://robinreads.com/ : September 23; $55; 2,700+ free downloads with 120,000 subscribers (Not all Kindle see below)

3.) ereadernewstoday: June 13; $40; 2,500 free downloads; undisclosed subscriber list size (not all Kindle; see below)

4.) Book Sends: September 9; $100; 1,000+ free downloads; with 98,000 mystery subscribers (update: schedule Book Sends through ereaderIQ)

5.) FreeBooksy : November 11; $85; 800+ free downloads with 182,800 mystery-specified subscribers (or Bargain Booksy for discounted books, not all Kindle see below)

6.) OHFB: August 24; $100; 500+ free downloads; with undisclosed subscriber list size

7.) Kindle Nation Daily’s Kindle Daily Deal: October 28; $129; 200+ free downloads; with 158,500 non-genre-specified subscribers (We book a Baker’s Dozen at a time, and utilize the different packages KND offers)

Who do we use to promote books elsewhere (<=40% of eBook market)?

  1. Bookbub: see above; Nook, iBooks, Kobo, Google Play, and Smashwords
  2. ereadernewstoday: see above; Nook, iBooks, Google Play, and Kobo
  3. Story Finds: $15 donation; 160,000 page “visitors,” but no email
  4. Fussy Librarian: $18; 92,618 mystery specific subscribers
  5. ebooksoda: $15; 14,000 email subscribers

Note that each promotional vendor also reaches readers through social media and their website. We mention subscriber list for each, though, because it is the most powerful, in our humble opinion. Also note we find that even Kindle-only promos positively impact Pamela’s downloads on other sites.

The sites have minimum time periods until you can submit a book again, and some for how often an author can be featured. BookBub, for instance, will run a book a maximum of every six months, and an author only every two months.

We have tried a number of additional sites, free and paid, during this time period but the ones listed above were the most effective. Other sites we would continue to use without a doubt: Pixel of Ink (update: book Pixel of Ink through ereaderIQ)., Bargain eBook Hunter, FK Books and Tips, Bookpraiser (multi-promo site aggregator), and Book Marketing Tools (ditto).

We advertise each Friday, 12 months a year, to keep Pamela’s rankings up. She has found that once you let rankings fall and your book loses visibility, it’s much harder to get it back up again. Also, she finds that the amount of paid books she’s selling to people who read her first-in-series-free mystery more than offsets the cost of the promotions. Much more.

So, with that all being said, this month, we are switching out Heaven to Betsy (currently her free title) and going back to making the lead book in her What Doesn’t Kill You romantic mystery series, Saving Grace, free again. We are excited, to begin scheduling our book promotions with Saving Grace after her rest, and to begin again a true first-in-series-free promotion run.

Would you like to know how to get a BookBub deal, one of the biggest and most effective of all book promotions? All you have to do is click on the image below to attend this course at our SkipJack School. You’ll learn tips from Pamela, whom in the past 12 months has landed not one, not two, not three, but four BookBubs (2 for Saving Grace, 1 for Heaven to Betsy, and 1 for The Katie Box Set)! To put that in perspective, in 2015 BookBub received 55,000 submissions. They ran about than 12,000 promotions, featuring nearly than 8,000 authors.

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We here at SkipJack Publishing hope this information has been helpful to you. If you’ve had great success with other services, please let us all know in the comments.

Candi Fite, SkipJack Publishing Assistant


candi-writingAs there are two sides to every story, there are two sides of Candi’s creativity. Over the years, she’s crafted poetry, short stories, a children’s picture book, and her most recent work, is a humorous Cozy Mystery. She wrote her first poem when she was ten about her baby sister who was fascinated by her own toes.

As a self-taught mixed media & abstract expressionist artist, Candi relies on her free spirit and her passion to express herself to guide her through the intuitive process of creating art. Inspired by the beauty and architecture of nature, she uses her hands, brushes, and her beloved metal pie server, as she layers, textures, builds, paints, and allows each piece to happen organically.

Her hopes are that her artwork connects viewers with their own emotions and provokes deep feelings, and her stories not only candi-artentertain, but also make her readers laugh.

Follow her: @gypsychickart on Facebook and Instagram, Candilynn Fite-Writer on Facebook. 

You can pick up a copy of Little Acorn’s Big Fall, a Children’s Picture Book, on Amazon. How to Leash a Thief (A Steely & Cuff Mystery #1) is due out in early 2017.

 

 

 

 

Build Reader Subscriber Lists For Sales Independence

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There is no greater marketing advantage than to be able to send welcomed email straight to your readers’ inboxes, any time you want, for any reason you want. Think about it. Amazon doesn’t share with you the emails of its reader-customers that buy your books. Nor do the other sales sites. If they, in their sole discretion, think they can make money by promoting you to their readers, they will. If they don’t, they won’t. Now, that money may come from a publisher or agent in a white glove arrangement with the seller paying them to promote, or it may come because of your book’s sales, reviews, ratings, and rankings. You may have some impact on those things, but you don’t have control.

But when a reader subscribes to your list and welcomes your emails, you can email them anytime and about anything YOU want. Pre-orders. New releases. Discounted or free promotions. Contests. Awards you’ve won. Rankings or accolades you’ve achieved. Your dog’s birthday. Anything. You can route them to the link you want them to land on (possibly a page on your website with your affiliate links?). They can forward the email to others, or share it on social media. You remind them of the existence of your books, and, in combination with other positive exposure to them, people BUY more.

Which is a good, good thing.

Take the SkipJack course on Reader Subscriber Lists for $10, HERE.

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Increase Your Author Earnings With Affiliate Links

screen-shot-2016-11-08-at-1-38-31-pmI’m a big fan of maximizing revenue streams from existing products. With something as labor intensive and expensive as a novel, for instance, it only makes sense, right? So you can sell many different products with one novel. The e-book, paperback, hardback, audiobook, foreign rights, foreign translations, film rights. You can include it in box sets. You can create a musical out of it. Adapt it into other products, like coloring books, computer games, and themed merchandise. All of these are great, even if varying in their degrees of realism and cost.

But there’s a way to monetize your book without spending another cent or writing another word: affiliate links. Affiliate links come from membership in the various affiliate/associate programs offered by the book sales sites. Amazon has one. Nook and Kobo offer them through Rakuten. Apple’s got one. Google Play says there’s one coming soon. Draft2Digital has a universal link that takes readers to all your aggregated buy options.

Signing up for each one is a bit different. You’ll need to do that well in advance of any planned usage.

And what are they and why would you use them?

An affiliate link tells the seller that you sent them the customer. So if I use an Amazon affiliate link on my website and one of you clicks it, Amazon knows I sent you. Because of that, they’re going to pay me a cut of your purchases. The percentage varies on the number of customers you send each month, but it’s up to 10% for Amazon. And you get paid if the customer buys anything in the next 48 hours, even if they don’t buy the product you linked to! Pretty cool.

So you make additional money each month if you send purchasers to sales sites where you’re an affiliate.

There has to be a catch, right?

Well, there are several.

  1. You must follow their rules. And the rules are different for each. My strategy is to follow the most restrictive rules, and those are the rules for—you guessed it—Amazon, which also happens to be the likely source of 50-80% of your sales. (So you don’t want to bite the hand that feeds you by breaking their rules). Amazon, for instance, does not allow you to use affiliate links in your ebooks, theirs or anyone else’s.
  2. The various sites prohibit links from one another in your ebooks. So it’s more than just other sites’ affiliate links Amazon prohibits. They don’t want any links in that take customers from a Kindle book to purchase any other type of ebook.  Yeah, you can sometimes trick them with shortened URLs, but shortened URLs don’t work with some affiliate links, so why would you even try?
  3. Even if you follow the rules, some don’t seem to work. I make a few thousand dollars a year on Amazon affiliate links. Using the same strategy (laid out below) that makes me that money, I have made a whopping ZERO dollars from any other affiliate link (and I use them all). I’m dying to know if any of you make money on Apple, Nook, or Kobo affiliate program links.

Quickly, you can see that in order to maximize affiliate opportunities through the non-Amazon sites, you’d need to do individualized versions of your book for each sales site. Only catch is my experience in #3, above, which has led me to believe that strategy is a waste of time. (Which is not to say I don’t do site-specific versions of my ebooks. I do. But I do it to make it possible for readers to get to a review page in one click, on the site they purchased their ebook from.)

The strategy I’ve employed is to use affiliate links on the book pages of the websites, where readers can choose the sales site they wish to visit, and carry my affiliate tag with them. This is where we earn most of our Amazon affiliate income. This is also where we earn no affiliate income from any of our other links (even though 40% of my income is non-Amazon). You can see my page for novels HERE and SkipJack’s book page HERE.

If you want to make it easy to organize your book page on your website and include your affiliate links, consider a plug in like the ones discussed HERE.

If you’re going to use affiliate links, you need to disclose it prominently to your website visitors. I use this message: This website uses affiliate links and may as a result at times receive commissions for click-through sales.

And finally, you can use affiliate links for any products Amazon (or Kobo, B&N, or Apple) have to offer. Insert affiliate links for any products you mention in your blog, or that you recommend on your website. Maybe you have a favorite standing desk or ergonomic chair. Why not use an affiliate link on a picture of you using it? People that are interested will thank you! I sometimes blog interviews with my characters and chat with them about the movies, books, and television they’re into. You better believe I use affiliate links when I do. You can see one example, HERE.

If you have any wisdom to share on the use of affiliate links, I’m all ears 🙂 and I’m sure the other readers are, too . . .

Pamela

Pamela Fagan Hutchins writes overly long e-mails, hilarious nonfiction (What Kind of Loser Indie Publishes, and How Can I Be One, Too?), and series mysteries, like What Doesn’t Kill You, which includes the bestselling Saving Grace and the 2015 WINNER of the USA Best Book Award for Cross Genre Fiction, Heaven to Betsy, which you can get free in ebook, anywhere. She teaches writing, publishing, and promotion at the SkipJack Publishing Online School (where you can take How to Sell a Ton of Books, FREE) and writes about it on the SkipJack Publishing blog.

Pamela resides deep in the heart of Nowheresville, Texas and in the frozen north of Snowheresville, Wyoming. She has a passion for great writing and smart authorpreneurship as well as long trail rides and long hikes with her hunky husband and pack of rescue dogs, horses, donkeys, and whoever else wants to tag along, traveling in the Bookmobile, and experimenting with her Keurig. She also leaps medium-tall buildings in a single bound (if she gets a good running start).

 

 

 

 

SkipJack Publishing Announces Release of New Romantic Mystery from Award-winning, Best-selling Author Pamela Fagan Hutchins

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November 4, 2016

SkipJack Publishing Announces Release of New Romantic Mystery from Award-winning, Best-selling Author Pamela Fagan Hutchins

Houston, TX – Award-winning author Pamela Fagan Hutchins—recently named by the Houston Press as one of Houston’s Top 10 Authors— and SkipJack Publishing announce the November 4, 2016 release of Hutchins’ romantic mystery, Fighting for Anna (ISBN 978-1-939889-39-3), the eighth novel in the best-selling What Doesn’t Kill You series.

About Fighting for Anna: Michele retreats to the country while her teens are away for the summer, to write the memoirs of her elderly neighbor Gidget—a reclusive former Houston art gallery owner—and learn how to be alone in the wake of her husband’s death. But when Gidget dies unexpectedly, she leaves everything to Michele except a bequest to a daughter no one knew existed. Suddenly, Michele’s country quiet is shattered, and half of Texas shows up: some to help, some to contest the will, and others to make sure the mystery daughter is never found alive.

Fighting for Anna is a tightly plotted and fast-paced romantic head-scratcher that dives into 80s pop culture, a reclusive religious community, and high stakes politics. Readers fell in love with protagonist, Michele, when she debuted in Going for Kona and they won’t be disappointed by her encore in Fighting for Anna. Fans of the series will enjoy appearances by beloved characters, Katie, Rashidi, Annabelle and Sam, plus get to know new favorites like Lumpy, Maggie and Gertrude.

The What Doesn’t Kill You romantic mystery series has earned many awards: Winner in the Cross Genre Fiction category of the 2015 USA Best Book Awards for Heaven to Betsy (#5), 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest (Quarter-finalist, Romance) for Finding Harmony (#3), and the Romance category in the 2010 Writers’ League of Texas Manuscript Competition for Leaving Annalise (#2), among others.

“I like complex characters with rich histories and complicated right-nows. That’s where all this good stuff comes in,” said Hutchins in reference to the eighth installment of the What Doesn’t Kill You romantic mystery series. Fighting for Anna takes readers on a journey through grief, healing, love, new relationships and old secrets all while keeping you entertained with Hutchins’ characteristic humor.

Pamela Fagan Hutchins writes overly long e-mails, award-winning and best-selling romantic mysteries, and hilarious nonfiction from deep in the heart of Nowheresville, Texas and way up in the frozen north of Snowheresville, Wyoming. She is passionate about great writing and smart authorpreneurship as well as long hikes with her hunky husband and pack of rescue dogs, riding her gigantic horses, experimenting with her Keurig, and traveling in the Bookmobile.

If you’d like Pamela to speak to your book club, women’s club, or writers group, by Skype or in person, shoot her an e-mail. She’s very likely to say yes. You can connect with Pamela via her website (http://pamelafaganhutchins.com) or e-mail ([email protected]).

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Candi Fite

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www.SkipJackPublishing.com

Monetization: Multipurpose Your Audio Files

screen-shot-2016-10-23-at-9-16-12-pmI can’t believe it took me three years to figure out that I was underutilizing the audio files created by talented narrators for my books.

I’d used them as samples on my website, explaining Audible’s bounty program (they get their first purchase free; I get a $50 bounty I split with the narrator if my book is their first purchase) and encouraging people to click the link to the book and make it their first purchase as a subscriber. [By the way, if you haven’t tried audiobooks, you’re missing out, big time. I listen to them while I cook, clean, walk, and even sometimes while I bathe or shower. L-O-V-E them.]

But I write a series, for goodness sakes. And the audio files for each individual book already existed. We (the narrators and I, with whom I had 50/50 royalty split agreements) owned the files. We could reuse them for whatever we wanted. What, though, would that be?

Helloooooo, I got a BookBub for my Katie Box Set, which includes the first three books of the series. I’d learned in earlier BookBub promotions that readers like to do audio add-ons so they can seamlessly move between ebook and audio. This is an especially good deal for them when the ebook deal is “free” and Audible/Amazon is offering an “audio companion” for $1.99. Even at 99 cent for the ebook, this audio companion is a fantastic deal.

So we thought about it. How could we get the audio files from the three individual Katie novels from the What Doesn’t Kill You series compiled into an audio box set in time for the BookBub? We realized that we couldn’t. We’d gotten smart too late. Even if we could have, usually Audible/Amazon doesn’t move an audiobook to “audio companion” status for weeks or months after release of the audiobook. We missed an opportunity to earn more money on BookBub promotion, but we’d realized a gap in our monetization strategy.

Because the buyers of individual novel audiobooks and the buyers of the box sets (multi-novel audiobooks) aren’t always the same. Some people really love LONG recordings and the price break they get on them. Less choices to make. More immersion into an author’s world. It’s like with the ebook box sets: we don’t get a price for the box set equal to the sum of the individual novels. But we do get a lot more, and we encourage buying multiple books at once, which is key. If someone enjoys a PFH audiobook, that’s no guarantee they’ll remember to buy another the next time they’re making purchases. What if a great deal or a recommendation intervenes? The bird in the hand, baby. The bird in the hand.

We had a problem, though. The narrator for the Katie books hadn’t saved her audio files. But guess what? The narrator and the author can download the files of published books through their ACX logins. Woo hoo! The files were soon in our hands.

We put the box set up for auditions, because we wanted to give ACX a chance to approve the box set for the stipend, which means upfront money for the narrator. ACX never says why they do or don’t pick an audiobook for their stipend, but they do favor longer books. We hoped, we prayed, we waited, but they didn’t give us the stipend. (I’ve sold nearly 8000 audiobooks. That may not be a bank breaker, but it’s fairly significant. My books have thousands of reviews with over a 4.5-star rating. What does it take to get these dang stipends????) So our narrator uploaded a random file as an “audition,” we issued an offer, and she accepted. Then she immediately uploaded her files, we uploaded a cover file, and we submitted it to ACX. Note: the narrator did have to record some new intro, transition, and ending files, but that was no big deal.

Two weeks later, we had a new audiobook!! And not only that, but in the meantime, we put together the audiobook for the Emily Box Set. It was released by ACX as well. They sent us the normal 25 free audiobook codes for each, which gave us something for giveaways and promotions.

The pricing incentivized the multi-audiobook purchase we were looking for. The individual novels ranged from $19.95 to $24.95 (or $1.99 as ebook purchase “audio companions.). The box sets cost $29.95. For readers that would have purchased the books individually, we obviously pass up some money with their purchases of the box sets. But for readers who wouldn’t have bought any of the novels, or would have bought one and forgotten about the others, we make out like bandits.

So how have sales gone in the first month? 44 Emily Box Set and 38 Katie Box Set. The income trendline is slightly up. Equal to or greater than is a win, since even at “equal to” what it means is more listeners/readers, and more potential reviews plus the possibility of more sales down the road for my future novels/audiobooks. Plus all those free audiobook codes to use for promotions.

Phew. Can’t believe we missed this monetization opportunity. I’ll report back if anything significant changes.

Pamela

pamela author portraitPamela Fagan Hutchins writes overly long e-mails, hilarious nonfiction, and  series mysteries, like Katie & Annalise which includes the bestselling Saving Grace, and Emily which she kicks off with the 2015 WINNER of the USA Best Book Award for Cross Genre Fiction, Heaven to Betsy. She resides deep in the heart of Nowheresville, Texas and in the frozen north of Snowheresville, Wyoming. Pamela has a passion for great writing and smart authorpreneurship as well as long hikes with her hunky husband and pack of rescue dogs, traveling in the Bookmobile, and experimenting with her Keurig. She also leaps medium-tall buildings in a single bound (if she gets a good running start).

Amazon KDP’s #PoweredbyIndie Celebration of Great Writing

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 a landing page that links to genres, authors, and profile on authors’s indie experiences.

The question is why? What do they get out of this? We know that indie books comprise a hefty share of Amazon’s ebook sales dollars, at least 25 (dark blue line) and maybe over 30% (adding in the light blue line), according to our favorite data source, the Author Earnings website.

 

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It isn’t like this “celebration” is on their home page, so it’s hard to see how the impact will be HUGE on increased sales for the included books, although indie books are an easier sale to make to customers, since they are priced into the market. It will steer customers to the best in indie books, so Amazon KDP will create a positive impression for those that haven’t read indie before and possibly create a stronger long term market for indies overall. (This can’t make traditional publishing happy.) Is it for Kindle Unlimited discovery? Many of the included books are KU, and this could create a positive impression for KU books. But many/most aren’t in KU. Does Amazon hope to lead the best in indie authors over to KU by making them feel warmly to Papa Jeff and the gang?

It’s just impossible to know for sure.

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Another thing that is interesting is the inclusion of literary fiction and nonfiction, not categories previously believed to be dominated by indies in terms of unit sales (while indies only bring in 25-30% on Amazon’s gross sales dollars for ebooks overall, they account for nearly 50% of unit sales).

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Here’s how that looks by genre (but nonfiction is not included):

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The most recent (May 2016) Author Earnings data dive and analysis discovered an awarding-winning literary fiction indie “hiding in plain sight,” making six figures. Maybe there are more indies making inroads out there in these non-genre categories than we ever dreamed.

Whatever the reasons for this, there’s no downside to the authors included, even if the upside in the short run is probably not much more than giving them something to promote. Which in the end may be exactly what Amazon KDP wants: the power of the indie promotion machine, by authors that have mastered the art of promotion in creating lifestyles funded by their books. For example, SkipJack author Pamela Fagan Hutchins (whose novels are not on Kindle Unlimited) learned on October 1st that her novels were included and started Facebook posts and tweets with links to Amazon, immediately. This blog is a direct result, and she’ll also be blogging this month on why she loves being an indie author.

Because Amazon isn’t leaving this to chance, sending emails to all the included authors making the promotion easy and subtly directed:

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Amazon KDP is a business, not a charity, not a public service organization. In the end, they’re doing this because they believe it will drive more dollars their way.

We don’t mind. Anything that helps indies is a good thing, and Amazon is ever-more #PoweredbyIndies. We know it, and so do they.

Thanks, Papa Jeff.

 

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 how. I have an easy way you can help me on your social media, using the message and image below. If you click Join This Thunderclap, then on Nov. 4th at 8:30 p.m., THIS message will be posted on your social media (and the social media of all my other supporters).  Same time, same message, best chance of “trending” or “going viral.” I’ve written on this blog about Thunderclap before (read it here) and vetted the privacy of Thunderclap myself and want you to know I am quite sure they don’t use your social media for anything other than this post, but read for yourself if you have concerns (I’ve done them before with no problems).

So…click below? And then share the opportunity to support the Thunderclap with your followers, too?

Thunderclap supporters will be entered into a drawing for a $25 Nook/Barnes & Noble gift card.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled program!

Recently, Pamela Fagan Hutchins was a guest on Speaking with TJ Walker, and they discussed the role of events/speaking in her ditching her day job to be a full time writer. You’ll definitely want to check this out.

You can access all the class freebies, HERE.

And check out our newest SkipJack online class: How to Draw in Readers With Rock Star Book Events.

SkipJack is Alaska-bound

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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. While there, SkipJack will have a table for questions, queries, and book sales.

Can’t make it to Anchorage? You can still get the same information by having Pamela speak to your writer’s organization or by taking the SkipJack online classes, HERE, including the always-free How to Sell a Ton of Books in 5 Simple Steps.

Drawing In Readers with Rock Star Book Events

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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 and long line at our own events some day.

I’m going to let you in on a little secret: book events are hard. They can cost you real money. They’re not always fun. But they’re absolutely golden for author visibility and can be parlayed into a long term impact. I did over 200 events in the first three years after I published my first novel. I gained thousands of subscribers for my reader list in addition to engaging with readers, old and new, creating interesting content for my blog and social media, and generating hundreds of thousands of impressions of my book covers, titles, and author name. And, yes, I sold books and had fabulous Nielsen Scan numbers.

So if you’ve got the guts to put yourself out there—for readings, book signings, speeches, workshops, book fairs/festivals, or any of the myriad of opportunities waiting for you—let me teach you how to make them into a smashing success. Because I don’t ever want you to have to be that lonely guy hiding behind his books :-).

Enroll in  the course for only $10 HERE.

Pamela

Pamela Fagan Hutchins writes overly long e-mails, hilarious nonfiction (What Kind of Loser Indie Publishes, and How Can I Be One, Too?), and series mysteries, like What Doesn’t Kill You, which includes the bestselling Saving Grace and the 2015 WINNER of the USA Best Book Award for Cross Genre Fiction, Heaven to Betsy, which you can get free in ebook, anywhere. She teaches writing, publishing, and promotion at the SkipJack Publishing Online School (where you can take How to Sell a Ton of Books, FREE) and writes about it on the SkipJack Publishing blog.

Pamela resides deep in the heart of Nowheresville, Texas and in the frozen north of Snowheresville, Wyoming. She has a passion for great writing and smart authorpreneurship as well as long hikes with her hunky husband and pack of rescue dogs, traveling in the Bookmobile, and experimenting with her Keurig. She also leaps medium-tall buildings in a single bound (if she gets a good running start).