Did anyone check how email promotion actually works with younger generations? Maybe that's just my experience, but I had several younger people telling me that they don't use email or barely use it. Everyone has one, but actually using, checking and reading it is another story.
I finished writing my first book back in May and it took me exactly one year to complete. It came out to about 225k words, so I decided to divide the book into 3 acts/books (around 75k words per/book). Right now, I'm trying to tighten up the story for each act/book, specifically the endings to the first 2, so they can stand on their own with a clear beginning, middle, and end. My current goal is to finish revising the story and have all 3 books ready to go before I publish book 1. Then I was going to publish book 2 three months later and book 3 three months after that. And once I have released book 3, I was going to drop the price of book 1 down to either .99 cents or free to try and use it as my reader magnet. However, I wrote the story as one book. Therefore, I'm curious if I can release a "completed trilogy" version of the book, three months after releasing book 3, as an ebook exclusive. Can I do that? Or, would that cause problems for me? I suppose what I'm specifically asking is; can I take novels I have already published and combine them together into a "new" book? Will that upset Amazon/Apple, etc? Will that upset readers? If that's going to cause me problems I'll just scrap it. But, if not, I was thinking I could price my ebooks at $5.99 or maybe $4.99 each, then drop book 1 down to $0.99 cents or free, and make the "completed trilogy" ebook exclusive book $9.99 or $8.99. I don't know. Just something I've been thinking about since I started my revisions. I appreciate any advice you may have to offer on it, or self-publishing in general. Sorry for the long post and the multiple questions. I hope you have a nice day.
I really like the idea of dividing the first book up into multiple smaller parts and give it for free for a limited time. I would probably just release it as parts of a bigger novel instead of making it into multiple smaller novels. That way I can have some sort of consistency and not end up with a series where book 1-4 is 100 pages and book 5-> is 400+ pages.
Thanks for the video. One question: why some of my fav authors take 2 or more years to write their books? Whilst you say some people write one book per month?! And these authors sell millions of copies and are "full-time" authors.
I have a hard time believing anyone writing a book a month is putting out anything of quality. How are they even affording editors, professional cover art etc for all of these books? Are they just slapping these things together, doing some AI cover art and throwing them up on Amazon with no editing? Doesn’t seem like a great way to build a passionate reader base.
It seems that the 1st step is actually setting up a website and email.. Since Google has now made professional emails challenging.. you can't just open a gmail account and start using it.. so what do you recommend for people who write and use multiple pen names.. How do you set up your email so that you can deliver your Step 1? I am in your membership so not sure where to even find that..
How can I get the promotion materials? I've gotten onto the email list but did not get an email with a free AI course, my 40-chapter Plot Module, and my prompt library.
I ama turning my comic book series into a poses novel series as well and I can 7 books for the comic book series and 1 book that is in it's first drift of the poses novel.
Tell me please, if I write a novel of 80,000 words. I split it into 4 novellas of 20,000 words each. Is it possible to sell 4 novellas and 1 novel on Amazon at the same time? Or will it be duplication?
I would only sell the 4 novellas. Eventually you can publish a “box set” of all four novellas together (essentially a single novel) but know that doing that will kill the sales of the individual novellas.
Sounds like a full time job to go the self-publishing route. I have seen from other youtubers that if you’re interested in going the traditional way and you first put up your book as self publishing it can actually hurt your chances if this book isnt selling. Basically showing the publisher, hey look nobody is buying the book. Then they wont either. And when it comes to writing with AI (which I like doing) I recently read from PcMag and the Verge that short story magazines are not accepting stories written or cowritten with AI because they’re flooded with short stories quickly written with or by chatgpt and not edited well. I remember you telling about Mythulu back in April having an issue with stories written with AI. That was cool of them. So i dont know anymore about writing with AI if I want to go the traditional way, it doesn’t seem like they accept anything with AI even if its cowritten. Not just short story magazines but the big publishers too. Or do you know what the latest is from the big houses? Accepting or not accepting with AI? Perhaps the big publishing houses are waiting to iron out the legal details about AI stories to avoid issues?
Jason, have you ever considered or would you consider doing a video on how to structure a book series?
Did anyone check how email promotion actually works with younger generations? Maybe that's just my experience, but I had several younger people telling me that they don't use email or barely use it. Everyone has one, but actually using, checking and reading it is another story.
Yeah, I immediately unsubscribe. 🤷🏻♀️
I generally immediately unsubscribe, or I don't subscribe at all if possible. I hate a cluttered email account that I rarely use beyond work stuff.
Mind Blown! This is the best book marketing advice I’ve heard in years. Thank you
Wow, thank you!
Great news for me since my books are so long. I like the idea of splitting my acts into novellas.
I finished writing my first book back in May and it took me exactly one year to complete. It came out to about 225k words, so I decided to divide the book into 3 acts/books (around 75k words per/book). Right now, I'm trying to tighten up the story for each act/book, specifically the endings to the first 2, so they can stand on their own with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
My current goal is to finish revising the story and have all 3 books ready to go before I publish book 1. Then I was going to publish book 2 three months later and book 3 three months after that. And once I have released book 3, I was going to drop the price of book 1 down to either .99 cents or free to try and use it as my reader magnet.
However, I wrote the story as one book. Therefore, I'm curious if I can release a "completed trilogy" version of the book, three months after releasing book 3, as an ebook exclusive. Can I do that? Or, would that cause problems for me? I suppose what I'm specifically asking is; can I take novels I have already published and combine them together into a "new" book? Will that upset Amazon/Apple, etc? Will that upset readers?
If that's going to cause me problems I'll just scrap it. But, if not, I was thinking I could price my ebooks at $5.99 or maybe $4.99 each, then drop book 1 down to $0.99 cents or free, and make the "completed trilogy" ebook exclusive book $9.99 or $8.99.
I don't know. Just something I've been thinking about since I started my revisions. I appreciate any advice you may have to offer on it, or self-publishing in general. Sorry for the long post and the multiple questions. I hope you have a nice day.
I planned one of my series to be a novella series.
I really like the idea of dividing the first book up into multiple smaller parts and give it for free for a limited time. I would probably just release it as parts of a bigger novel instead of making it into multiple smaller novels. That way I can have some sort of consistency and not end up with a series where book 1-4 is 100 pages and book 5-> is 400+ pages.
Thanks for the video. One question: why some of my fav authors take 2 or more years to write their books? Whilst you say some people write one book per month?! And these authors sell millions of copies and are "full-time" authors.
It’s a mindset shift. The people who take longer can afford to because they have television shows or other sources of income.
@@TheNerdyNovelist so it has to be other sources of income then. Thanks
I have a hard time believing anyone writing a book a month is putting out anything of quality. How are they even affording editors, professional cover art etc for all of these books? Are they just slapping these things together, doing some AI cover art and throwing them up on Amazon with no editing? Doesn’t seem like a great way to build a passionate reader base.
It seems that the 1st step is actually setting up a website and email.. Since Google has now made professional emails challenging.. you can't just open a gmail account and start using it.. so what do you recommend for people who write and use multiple pen names.. How do you set up your email so that you can deliver your Step 1? I am in your membership so not sure where to even find that..
How can I get the promotion materials? I've gotten onto the email list but did not get an email with a free AI course, my 40-chapter Plot Module, and my prompt library.
Email us at jason@storyhacker.ai
How can I apply this strategy for non-fiction books? I publish workbook and journal 2-in-1 types with at least 15k to 20k word counts…
I ama turning my comic book series into a poses novel series as well and I can 7 books for the comic book series and 1 book that is in it's first drift of the poses novel.
thx for the tips
Tell me please, if I write a novel of 80,000 words. I split it into 4 novellas of 20,000 words each. Is it possible to sell 4 novellas and 1 novel on Amazon at the same time? Or will it be duplication?
I would only sell the 4 novellas. Eventually you can publish a “box set” of all four novellas together (essentially a single novel) but know that doing that will kill the sales of the individual novellas.
Sounds like a full time job to go the self-publishing route. I have seen from other youtubers that if you’re interested in going the traditional way and you first put up your book as self publishing it can actually hurt your chances if this book isnt selling. Basically showing the publisher, hey look nobody is buying the book. Then they wont either. And when it comes to writing with AI (which I like doing) I recently read from PcMag and the Verge that short story magazines are not accepting stories written or cowritten with AI because they’re flooded with short stories quickly written with or by chatgpt and not edited well. I remember you telling about Mythulu back in April having an issue with stories written with AI. That was cool of them.
So i dont know anymore about writing with AI if I want to go the traditional way, it doesn’t seem like they accept anything with AI even if its cowritten. Not just short story magazines but the big publishers too. Or do you know what the latest is from the big houses? Accepting or not accepting with AI? Perhaps the big publishing houses are waiting to iron out the legal details about AI stories to avoid issues?
No self publishing can help with traditional publishing because trad publishers like it if you already have an audience.
So step 1 is ACTUALLY "build/get a website."
You don’t need a website for step 1. You’ll want to use BookFunnel or StoryOrigin to distribute the ebook and they will host it for you.
The Nerdy Novelist, You're awesome! Let's be friends, okay?
Okay!