Looking for tips on how to become a bestseller? Maybe I can help. While I was on summer vacation with my family, my box set The War Planners Series was selected for a BookBub Featured Deal. Seeing the preview of the acceptance email on my phone’s screen, I was unable to … [Read more...]
Guest Posts
From authors to literary agents to publishers, BookBub’s insightful guest posts shed light on book marketing from the perspective of those in the industry!
How I Hit the USA Today Bestseller List Three Times
I hit the USA Today bestseller list three times thanks to a whole lot of planning and focused marketing strategies built around price promotions. These included BookBub Featured Deals, promo-stacking with other vendors, newsletter sends, cross-promotion with other authors, … [Read more...]
5 Ways a Book Cover Could Hurt Sales — And How to Fix It
Before launching Sterling & Stone in 2011, we were a trio of indie authors, and our early years were filled with missteps. We wrote furiously, churning out more than 2 million words per year. All those drafts needed to be made into books, but at the start we only had so … [Read more...]
How I Launched a Bestselling Book with a Free Promotion
For the first time in three years I had a new contemporary romance series to promote, Cade Brothers, and I wanted to reach a new audience. I had two goals for the launch of the first book in the series, Tempting Levi: Sell as many copies as possible to introduce the … [Read more...]
How Indie Presses and Authors Can Collaborate on Marketing Campaigns
At Tule, our main goal is to publish fantastic stories by the best writers. We want to delight our readers and satisfy our authors’ desire for creativity, freedom, and commercial success. By working collaboratively with our authors on marketing campaigns, we’ve been able … [Read more...]
How We Created a Box Set to Increase Ebook Sales 350%
Looking for ways to increase ebook sales? There is a challenge to drawing readers into a series after several books have been released. In March, Lila Dubois and I released Delicate Ties, book eight in our Trinity Masters series. The series has been very successful, yet our … [Read more...]
How I Got 25K More BookBub Followers (and Why I Did)
As an author who’s written 57 traditionally- and self-published books over 27 years, I love the creative process of writing — the part of my career that involves quiet solitude, characters who do what they're told, and a relaxed writing wardrobe. Don't get me wrong, it's … [Read more...]
Promoting a Series to Keep Readers Hooked
We authors often discuss how to promote individual novels. We know about running advertising campaigns, building mailing lists and websites, pricing and discounting, and so on. But trying to promote a series of novels is a different beast — you need to convince readers to … [Read more...]
How I Sold 100x More of My Book Series
I'm always one of the first to advocate for making a first-in-series book free. Permafree series-starters are what have kept my book sales chugging along. And when I'm lucky enough to score a BookBub Featured Deal on one of my three free Scottish historical romances, the … [Read more...]
How Hiring an Author Assistant Can Boost Book Sales
An author is the CEO of their own business. However, they’re also creating the product, performing quality control, marketing, doing accounting — the list goes on and on. It can be overwhelming to wear so many hats, which is where hiring an author assistant can help — … [Read more...]
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