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David Gaughran
Goodreads Author
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Let's Get Digital: How to Self-Publish, and Why You Should
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2011
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16 editions
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Let's Get Visible: How To Get Noticed And Sell More Books (Let's Get Digital, #2)
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2013
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4 editions
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Strangers To Superfans: A Marketing Guide to The Reader Journey
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2018
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5 editions
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Amazon Decoded: A Marketing Guide to the Kindle Store
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2018
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Following: A Marketing Guide to Author Platform
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2020
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BookBub Ads Expert: A Marketing Guide to Author Discovery (Let's Get Publishing Book 3)
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2019
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3 editions
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If You Go Into The Woods
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2011
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A Storm Hits Valparaiso
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2011
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Transfection
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2011
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Uncommon Soldiers: Historical Adventure Twinpack
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2014
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15 Rules For Advertising Books
I started working in digital advertising way back in 2004 and while it is tricky to generalize about three very different ad platforms – Facebook, Amazon, and BookBub Ads – there are some general rules that I recommend everyone considers, before losing their shirts on book advertising.
Not least because books present a pretty unique marketing challenge when compare to generic products. Something wh
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“the majority of readers discovered their favorite author by getting a book for free,”
― Let's Get Visible: How To Get Noticed And Sell More Books
― Let's Get Visible: How To Get Noticed And Sell More Books
“Every single industry that had been disrupted by the internet had claimed special status. Publishing was no different—first in dismissing the threat and then in demanding protection from the very threat it had once dismissed—”
― Let's Get Digital: How to Self-Publish, and Why You Should
― Let's Get Digital: How to Self-Publish, and Why You Should
“Contrary to surprisingly persistent myths about self-publishers, we don’t simply fling word-poop out of the authorial monkey cage and hope for the best.”
― Let's Get Digital: How to Self-Publish, and Why You Should
― Let's Get Digital: How to Self-Publish, and Why You Should
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| 2025 & 2026 Readi...: Quarter 1 Spell Out Challenge: All About TV and Movies | 141 | 302 | Aug 30, 2013 10:03PM | |
| 2025 & 2026 Readi...: Natalie's Corner | 37 | 107 | Sep 30, 2013 06:14PM | |
| Urban Fantasy Afi...: Interesting Writing Tips Blogs | 22 | 24 | May 29, 2014 06:21AM | |
| 2025 & 2026 Readi...: Mad Giles' 144 Books, 12x12 Reading Challenge | 2 | 17 | Jun 02, 2016 11:49PM | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Summer's 50 Books in 2016 | 48 | 27 | Dec 22, 2016 11:27AM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: How Many Pages? - 2016 | 384 | 239 | Mar 10, 2017 09:24AM | |
| 2025 & 2026 Readi...: Mad Giles, 2017 12x12 Challenge & Then Some | 4 | 77 | Nov 03, 2017 07:33PM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: How Many Pages?? 2017 | 434 | 201 | Jan 31, 2018 06:33PM |
“Suicide in the trenches:
I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
* * * * *
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.”
― The War Poems
I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
* * * * *
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.”
― The War Poems
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