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Simple Self-Publishing Success Strategies: How to Sell More Books and Build Your Audience
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Smart self-publishing the RIGHT way
Does it feel like you're pouring your time, energy, and passion into your books, only to spin your tires with mediocre sales and minimal reader reviews? Don't give up!
Building on the self-publishing manifesto laid down in Write Short Kindle Books, this second book in the Indie Author Success Series delivers 19 core success strategies (and 70+ action tips) that will help you re-think your approach, write better (and better targeted) books, get more reviews, avoid wasting your time and money, build and expand your platform, and empower you to push upwards to achieve your goals of becoming a bestselling author.
Would you love to:
Write books that will resonate with your audience and produce sales?
Generate more reviews from readers who love your books?
Set yourself up for successful book launches?
Write books faster and get more books on the market?
Make MORE money from your books beyond initial sales?
Cut down on your production costs?
And maximize your overall potential for author success?
Then scroll on up and click BUY right now!
Smart self-publishing the RIGHT way
Does it feel like you're pouring your time, energy, and passion into your books, only to spin your tires with mediocre sales and minimal reader reviews? Don't give up!
Building on the self-publishing manifesto laid down in Write Short Kindle Books, this second book in the Indie Author Success Series delivers 19 core success strategies (and 70+ action tips) that will help you re-think your approach, write better (and better targeted) books, get more reviews, avoid wasting your time and money, build and expand your platform, and empower you to push upwards to achieve your goals of becoming a bestselling author.
Would you love to:
Write books that will resonate with your audience and produce sales?
Generate more reviews from readers who love your books?
Set yourself up for successful book launches?
Write books faster and get more books on the market?
Make MORE money from your books beyond initial sales?
Cut down on your production costs?
And maximize your overall potential for author success?
Then scroll on up and click BUY right now!
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75 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 10, 2015
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About the author
Nathan Meunier
10 books6 followersNathan Meunier is a freelance writer, author, and indie game developer.
For most of the past 10 years, he's covered video games, tech, and geek culture as a freelancer. His work has appeared more than 40 publications, including Nintendo Power, PC Gamer, GameSpot, PlayStation The Official Magazine, EGM, GameSpy, IGN, Official Xbox Magazine, and more.
He's the author of The Game Journo Guides Series as well as other books designed to help freelancers, author, and writers of all sorts improve their craft and get their work out into the world.
For most of the past 10 years, he's covered video games, tech, and geek culture as a freelancer. His work has appeared more than 40 publications, including Nintendo Power, PC Gamer, GameSpot, PlayStation The Official Magazine, EGM, GameSpy, IGN, Official Xbox Magazine, and more.
He's the author of The Game Journo Guides Series as well as other books designed to help freelancers, author, and writers of all sorts improve their craft and get their work out into the world.
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February 8, 2016
A short common sense guide for self-published authors who want to maximize their profits from nonfiction ebooks.
Nathan Meunier's Indie Author Success Strategies is one of his handful of how-to guides for making money as a self-published author. One look at his bibliography is enough to know that Meunier takes his own advice: his book covers are bright and professional, his titles are snappy, and he's found a niche market. Although he's a poster child for the efficacy of the strategies he touts in his 74-page ebook, there are few revelatory gems in this list of 19 tips and 70 bonus "action tips." Luckily for potential readers, Meunier's books are priced inexpensively. It would be hard to justify paying for advice that can be summed up in a few obvious bullet points: avoid poor grammar, identify and cater to your audience, cover design, cover design, cover design. The most valuable morsels Meunier offers are the specific editing, listserv, and cover design tools whose names are scattered throughout the action tips and may be unfamiliar to the intermediate author. The rest of the book, although well-written, passes in an unremarkable stream of unsupported and unspecific advice about expanding one's social network and building an author platform. Meunier eschews industry research that might have led him to original insight, preferring instead to recount simple parables that can be typed up in the span of an afternoon. Rather than providing step-by-step instructions for increasing SEO, Meunier says merely that one should "pay close attention" to search terms and bestseller rankings. Rather than offering an analysis of author branding in relation to company branding or even making an example out of his own brand decision process, Meunier suggests simply being "mindful" of your author brand across platforms. As an established ebook author, Meunier is surely capable of well-supported, thoughtful, and original advice, but to spend the time producing it would have been contrary to his formula for churning out attractive bite-sized books in the self-publishing hustle.
Meunier fails to see the irony that in writing such a facile survey of self-publishing, he is living proof that making money from nonfiction ebooks is less a literary career than a scrappy entrepreneurial marketing game, a niche with limited room for Meunier's intended readers as it's already crowded by people like Meunier himself.
Nathan Meunier's Indie Author Success Strategies is one of his handful of how-to guides for making money as a self-published author. One look at his bibliography is enough to know that Meunier takes his own advice: his book covers are bright and professional, his titles are snappy, and he's found a niche market. Although he's a poster child for the efficacy of the strategies he touts in his 74-page ebook, there are few revelatory gems in this list of 19 tips and 70 bonus "action tips." Luckily for potential readers, Meunier's books are priced inexpensively. It would be hard to justify paying for advice that can be summed up in a few obvious bullet points: avoid poor grammar, identify and cater to your audience, cover design, cover design, cover design. The most valuable morsels Meunier offers are the specific editing, listserv, and cover design tools whose names are scattered throughout the action tips and may be unfamiliar to the intermediate author. The rest of the book, although well-written, passes in an unremarkable stream of unsupported and unspecific advice about expanding one's social network and building an author platform. Meunier eschews industry research that might have led him to original insight, preferring instead to recount simple parables that can be typed up in the span of an afternoon. Rather than providing step-by-step instructions for increasing SEO, Meunier says merely that one should "pay close attention" to search terms and bestseller rankings. Rather than offering an analysis of author branding in relation to company branding or even making an example out of his own brand decision process, Meunier suggests simply being "mindful" of your author brand across platforms. As an established ebook author, Meunier is surely capable of well-supported, thoughtful, and original advice, but to spend the time producing it would have been contrary to his formula for churning out attractive bite-sized books in the self-publishing hustle.
Meunier fails to see the irony that in writing such a facile survey of self-publishing, he is living proof that making money from nonfiction ebooks is less a literary career than a scrappy entrepreneurial marketing game, a niche with limited room for Meunier's intended readers as it's already crowded by people like Meunier himself.
December 1, 2020
Like this author’s first book in the series, this one was filled with good information, great tips, and told in a friendly and engaging manor. Whether you’re publishing for the first time or have published before, you’ll likely find this book useful.
February 19, 2016
NOT 'How' to build an audience from scratch
This is probably my fault and that is why I give this book 5 stars instead of 4. There is nothing out there to tell you 'how to build an audience from scratch'. Because of the subtitle of this book, I made my purchase to try to answer that question. This book is no different, he talks about the tools and how to use them to increase your audience. But what if you have NO audience at all (yet)?
Other than that, I would recommend this book if your are brand new to the self publishing industry and have no clue what to do and the options you have to market your book, etc. The one thing I've learned I did not know was Amazon's KDP Select program.
Thank you author!!
This is probably my fault and that is why I give this book 5 stars instead of 4. There is nothing out there to tell you 'how to build an audience from scratch'. Because of the subtitle of this book, I made my purchase to try to answer that question. This book is no different, he talks about the tools and how to use them to increase your audience. But what if you have NO audience at all (yet)?
Other than that, I would recommend this book if your are brand new to the self publishing industry and have no clue what to do and the options you have to market your book, etc. The one thing I've learned I did not know was Amazon's KDP Select program.
Thank you author!!
September 26, 2015
This guy literally changed my life. His books are a must read if you plan on writing nonfiction. They are well written and organized, very professional, and packed full of useful information. I love his approach to publishing short kindle books and plan on taking his advice.
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