Tag: Advice
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3 Ways to Write a Blurb for a Book Series or Box Set
Everyone loves a good book series or box set (whether that’s an anthology, collection, or omnibus). For readers, they can binge-read and lose themselves in thousands of pages for a very modest price. And for authors, publishing series and box sets are a great way to boost your royalties, sell more books, and benefit from…
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3 Changes That Improved My “Dead” Book Sales By 1000%
After writing several fantasy books in 2020-2022, I took a few years off from writing to focus on my work, and I kind of forgot about them. While my Frostwing series continued to generate sales and page reads in the background, my newer series—with Dragon’s Mark as book 1—floundered. Sales dropped off, and it never…
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The Worst Book Marketing Advice I’ve Ever Heard (and What To Do Instead)
Over the last 7+ years I’ve been in the self-publishing space, I’ve seen the whole gamut of advice. While a great deal of book marketing advice out there is sound wisdom, occasionally I see a recommendation (usually on a website like Reddit) that completely misses the mark and leaves me feeling for any author who…