Amazon ranks product sales within categories on its website. That includes books. Amazon allows pre-orders (pre-sales) of e-books by both traditionally published and independent authors. In addition, traditional and independent authors both promote their books through non-Amazon sites and sources. A few months ago—April 2, 2015 to be exact—I released Heaven to Betsy. I offered it […]
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Holy Crapoly! You’re Going to Want to Hear About This.
Well, give us 10 days to collect all the data and we’ll have quite an indie publishing story to share with you. What, you ask? What story? What happened? Well, I finally, after six applications and five rejections, got a BookBub day. I got it for the book I wanted, too: Saving Grace, the lead […]
What’s good for the goose is NOT good for the gander, on Amazon.
I LOVE Amazon. Please understand, as an indie author, I make the bulk of my $$$$$ on Amazon. In many ways, they single-handedly caused the leveling of the traditional publishing playing field so that indies have a chance to publish on their terms. I don’t love EVERYTHING about Amazon, however, because I’m not a robot. […]