Bethany Atazadeh > Quotes

“The truth is, you could write a masterpiece, but if you're hiding it under a rock, no one will ever know.”
― Bethany Atazadeh, How Your Book Sells Itself

“Good marketing is reminding your readers regularly about all the valuable things you want to give them out of your own experience, including your book, in a new and genuine way.”
― Bethany Atazadeh, How Your Book Sells Itself

“I’m not looking for a prince!” I snapped at the closed door, kicking at my skirt as I paced. “I’m looking for a sword!”
― Bethany Atazadeh, The Stolen Kingdom

“Your book sells itself—OR doesn’t sell itself—in ten specific ways. We’re going to spend some time talking about each one of them in depth, asking you specific questions to see if you are using each of these aspects of your book to their fullest potential, but let’s start by taking a look at all ten of them together:
1) The Genre
2) The Cover
3) The Title
4) The Back Blurb / Synopsis
5) The Tagline / Extra Promotional Lines
6) Interior Formatting
7) Editing
8) Keywords
9) Categories
10) And YOU as the author (your marketing mindset)

Each of these things can make or break book sales.”
― Bethany Atazadeh, How Your Book Sells Itself

“When you break it down, BOOK SALES come from THREE THINGS:
1) Word of Mouth
2) Searches
3) Reviews”
― Bethany Atazadeh

“When you boil it down, a book title is a business decision.”
― Bethany Atazadeh, How Your Book Sells Itself

“Simply talking about your book is the biggest, easiest, most often over-looked, cheapest marketing tool.”
― Bethany Atazadeh, How Your Book Sells Itself

“When you boil it down, a title is a business decision.”
― Bethany Atazadeh, How Your Book Sells Itself

“I stared out the kitchen window, past the faded blue curtains, at the street below where my few friends gathered, waiting for me to join them. They were the ones who mattered. They respected me.”
― Bethany Atazadeh, The Queen's Rise: Series Omnibus (Books 1 - 3)

“What he’d done was forbidden. It broke the Jinni code. But I had no proof; it was a woman’s word against a king’s. His Gift might be weak compared to a full-blooded Jinni, but I stared at him now the way I would eye a cobra. He was deadly. Unpredictable.”
― Bethany Atazadeh, The Stolen Kingdom

“The burning question came back as it always did: if I showed my true self to someone, would it change how they saw me? Would they still love me?”
― Bethany Atazadeh, The Queen's Rise: Series Omnibus (Books 1 - 3)