This is NOW. With millions of books on Amazon, and hundreds of thousands published each year, if you don’t choose your genre and keywords correctly, your book is dead.
Cheer up… Things aren’t as grim as they may appear. Remember—Amazon wants your books to sell as much as you do.
Amazon wants your books to sell, so help Amazon
Want to help Amazon?
You can, if you remember: algorithms. They’re scripts. Genre and keywords matter hugely because Amazon hunts readers FOR YOU using its algorithms.
Nice, huh?
Let’s look at how this works, using Hilary Mantel’s new book, The Mirror and The Light as an example.
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Angela Booth: Short Fiction Secrets: How To Write And Sell Short Stories (Selling Writer Strategies Book 2)
Writing short stories is a fun and easy way to get started writing fiction — you can get paid to write, in your spare time. If you're new to writing fiction, you can learn the elements of writing fiction — short stories are much easier to control than longer fiction.Angela Booth: Master Fiction Writing: Craft A Novel in 31 Days: Selling Writer Strategies 4
This program began as a 30-day challenge which I organized in 2010. Hundreds of writers joined the challenge; they wrote novels. You can write a novel in 31 days too.Angela Booth: Step By Step To Fiction Which Sells: Plotting And Scene Magic
What if you could leave boring fiction forever behind you, so that the story in your head becomes the story on the page? You CAN, when you discover the magic of story, plotting, and scenes.
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Amazon Wants Your Books To Sell, So Help Amazon
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Discovering The Benefits Of Herbal Teas
Stressed? Try herbal teas. They work.
A friend recommended a “relaxation” blend of tea when I worked 12-hour days for weeks and developed severe tummy pain. Initially I ignored her suggestion.
A visit to the doctor got me a subscription. Tests revealed nothing. I couldn’t take pills forever, so the next time I doubled over from pain, I took my friend’s advice and tried the relaxation blend.
A day later, my spasms had eased. Moreover, I felt less tense and concentrated more easily. Maybe there was something to herbal teas?
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Fiction Writing: Goals For You, And For Your Characters
Your fictional characters: they need goals too
Just as you need goals, so do your fictional characters.
Failing to motivate your characters means that you don’t have a plot.
From Debra Dixon’s excellent book, GMC: Goal, Motivation, and Conflict:
Commercial fiction readers expect your characters to have goals, to be motivated, and to face conflict. They expect you to answer four simple questions.
Who = character
What = goal
Why = motivation
Why not = conflict
Try applying What, Why, Why Not, to the characters in your current WIP (work in progress.)
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The Bestseller Strategy: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense (Final SALE)
How to write a bestseller: the bestselling novelist of all time
As her website points out, Agatha Christie is outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare:
(She) is the best-selling novelist of all time. She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, as well as the world’s longest-running play – The Mousetrap.
It’s estimated that Agatha Christie has sold around two billion novels.
A century has passed since The Bodley Head published her novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring Hercule Poirot. (Several publishers rejected the novel, showing amazingly poor judgment.)
Ms Christie died in 1971, but she’s still a bestseller today.
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The Easy And Free Book Marketing Solution
Why do authors (whether self-publishing or not) hate marketing? My pet theory is that authors hate it because they’re exhausted: they start their marketing push too late.
Once I’ve finished a book and published it, I’m done. Every last inspiration and happy insight I had on the topic, or about the novel, has gone into the book.
The solution’s simple: why not market while you’re writing? Amazon gives you a powerful facility. New authors can use it to begin to build a relationship with potential readers. Established authors can grow their readership, while reminding current readers of their backlist.
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Angela's Books For Writers: Basic Strategies
Angela Booth: Write AND Sell in Just 8 Hours: Create Top-Selling Ebooks FAST
Create and sell; that's a writer's life. If you've been procrastinating, it's time to be inspired.Angela Booth: The Journaling Habit: Achieve Your Goals And Change Your Life In Just Ten Minutes A Day
Just ten minutes a day: change your life. You can do it, starting today.Angela Booth: Map It: For Writing Success - Fiction And Nonfiction Outlines Made Easy: Fun, Powerful Outlining Strategies For Writers Who Hate Outlines
These practical and powerful methods of outlining will work for you, even if you think you "can't outline."Angela Booth: Blurbs Sell Your Books: Craft Irresistible Blurbs, And Sell More Fiction And Nonfiction Today
Master blurbs. They're advertisements, a tease; they'll increase your sales.Angela Booth: Nonfiction Ebooks Goldmine: Write and Sell Nonfiction Ebooks In 24 Hours Or Less (Selling Writer Strategies Book 5)
You're a writer. You need to make money from your words. What if you could create AND sell a nonfiction book in just a day?Angela Booth: Angela Booth's Easy-Write Process: Write The EASY WAY... Like a Professional Writer
If you've ever dreaded writing, or felt that writing was too hard, you'll love the Easy-Write Process.Angela Booth: Planning And Writing A Hot-Selling Series: Selling Writer Strategies, Book 7
Want to sell more fiction with every book you write? You can, when you write series fiction.Angela Booth: Plan, Write, And Publish Serial Fiction In Four Weeks: Selling Writer Strategies, Book 6
You've heard that authors are successfully publishing their fiction as serials, and are curious. Get started writing serial fiction today.
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