In the last two weeks, I’ve been sharing tips from my recent Bookbub experience. You can catch those installments HERE and HERE. Today I’m picking up where I left off, and I’m talking about ways to turn free (or deeply discounted) e-books into paid sales. Want people to read your next, PAID book? Put in an excerpt and a […]
Category: Sales
Nifty Enhancement to Amazon Giveaways
A few months ago I blogged on Amazon giveaways. It’s a neat new feature, and I like it. But I wasn’t in love with the entrance requirements. At the time, basically about the only option to require was that people follow you on Twitter, and I find Twitter fairly useless for promoting the purchase of […]
Libraries, REAL Books to touch and feel..and hand me downs.
What can you do with books?? Other than read them; you can stack them, look at them, decorate with them and even insulate a wall with them. They are the BEST hand me down, re-purpose, recycle, GREEN gift you can give this Christmas season. Give a book this year, support an Author and a bookstore. […]
Kindle Unlimited and KENP: Worth the Cost?
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Indie Publishing: 3 Chances to Work With Successful Indie Author Pamela Fagan Hutchins
1. Indiepalooza: 1 hour, plus conference 2. Indie Fest: 3-hour workshop 3. Indie Writers Retreat: two-day retreat
Indie Publishing Success Retreat for Writers
For reviews and more information as well as registration, visit http://pamelahutchins.com/speaking/writing-retreats/.