I 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 […]
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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 […]
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. […]
Proud to be a member of the Club: Rockin’ Improvements to Review Grabber!!
SEE BELOW VIDEO OF THE ROCKIN’ NEW AND IMPROVED AMC REVIEW GRABBER!!! When I first ran across Author Marketing Club, I resisted. I mean, come on, free stuff is good, but I’m getting nickel-and-dimed all over the place for paid services that will help me sell my books. But Author Marketing Club didn’t promise to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Coming Soon: Goodreads eBook Giveaways
I’ve long loved print giveaways on Goodreads. Recently, Goodreads announced their upcoming Kindle ebook giveaway program. Authors/publishers will be able to giveaway up to 100 books during the length of the promotion. It is not yet clear whether author/publishers will be able to include a note to the winners. The giveaway can be run for […]
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, […]
Burning Issues . . . ?
As I sit down to write this morning, I realize that having five baby goats born in the last few days on our place—and one motherless—is going to have to take precedence. Life is like that. Burning issues to be addressed, and sometimes they aren’t the ones we’d planned for. What we thought was burning […]