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 […]
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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 […]
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/.
Amazon Giveaways: An Update
A few weeks ago, I blogged on giveaways on Amazon and Goodreads. For us, Goodreads was an ongoing strategy, but Amazon was completely new. Pamela Fagan Hutchins tried it for her mystery Heaven to Betsy. The promo ran for one week, which was the set period and not something that could be changed. That matches the time […]
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 […]