Thank you so much! I love all your author collabs and I hope you do more interviews like the one you did with Ryan, if you plan on doing more content in that style. Zack Argyle maybe since you just finished Threadlight? 😁
How to capitalize on the book club thing--send them digital swag to share, pump up the club on your own social media, repost their reviews or quotes periodically... great point about the promo groups and also-boughts risk. Eeps!
So I went into more detail over in this video on the Amazon algorithm (ua-cam.com/video/w3S74fm--Zg/v-deo.html) but the essential hypothesis is, having more books out is better (more entries in the lottery means more opportunities for Amazon to recommend your books), and having a lower price point as an entry reduces risk for readers (hence a $0.99 or perma free short story, which is cheap enough to encourage an impulse buy). I've seen other authors set their prequels as like book 0.1 in a series. Chris Fox did pretty much the same thing with his current fantasy series too, I think.
❤️ you're so right Cassie! I feel like it's one of those things where the more you do, the more you learn, and the more you realize that you don't actually know anything. 😅
@@PaperTigerProductions 100%!! lol I've been doing this for years and I STILL don't have my ducks in a row, and I still mess up, and I still don't have perfect systems for everything. We all take different amounts of time to learn things though, and have different strengths and weaknesses and abilities, and different ideas of what success looks like. This author biz is an ever-changing landscape, so as long as we can put our adventurers' hats on and enjoy the journey, things will be okay!
I felt so much better after watching Will Wight's livestream yesterday, when he confessed that his prose graveyard on average when he got started is like 40-60k words. 😅 That doesn't happen to him anymore because he kept experimenting until he found a system that worked for him. I guess I'll just have to do the same!
Branding, basically. I'm already published with two kids bilingual picture books under my own name. It's not unconceivable that there might be overlap between the two target audiences-in fact, I know there is, because one of my friends is a bilingual parent and also reads epic fantasy. But by and large, the people who buy my kids books won't be interested in the fantasy novel, so keeping the fantasy novels under a separate pen name makes things less confusing.
Great video! I am glad you found the interview with Ryan Cahill helpful! Best of luck with your book!
Thank you so much! I love all your author collabs and I hope you do more interviews like the one you did with Ryan, if you plan on doing more content in that style. Zack Argyle maybe since you just finished Threadlight? 😁
Thanks for this. I look forward to making a bunch of completely different mistakes. ;-)
How to capitalize on the book club thing--send them digital swag to share, pump up the club on your own social media, repost their reviews or quotes periodically... great point about the promo groups and also-boughts risk. Eeps!
❤️ thanks so much, those are great ideas! Fingers crossed that the book club exposure will hopefully go a ways towards fixing the also-boughts 🤞
Very honest and very useful. Ty.
Thanks Jim!
tysm for this, im interested in what you said about the 99 cent thing
So I went into more detail over in this video on the Amazon algorithm (ua-cam.com/video/w3S74fm--Zg/v-deo.html) but the essential hypothesis is, having more books out is better (more entries in the lottery means more opportunities for Amazon to recommend your books), and having a lower price point as an entry reduces risk for readers (hence a $0.99 or perma free short story, which is cheap enough to encourage an impulse buy). I've seen other authors set their prequels as like book 0.1 in a series. Chris Fox did pretty much the same thing with his current fantasy series too, I think.
Making different mistakes--it's the best we can hope for! LOL Great video 😍
There is always so much more to learn with publishing! I think as long as each book you're learning and doing more/better, you're winning.
❤️ you're so right Cassie! I feel like it's one of those things where the more you do, the more you learn, and the more you realize that you don't actually know anything. 😅
@@PaperTigerProductions 100%!! lol I've been doing this for years and I STILL don't have my ducks in a row, and I still mess up, and I still don't have perfect systems for everything.
We all take different amounts of time to learn things though, and have different strengths and weaknesses and abilities, and different ideas of what success looks like. This author biz is an ever-changing landscape, so as long as we can put our adventurers' hats on and enjoy the journey, things will be okay!
"Net prose graveyard" is a little harsh, Delilah...!! lol
I felt so much better after watching Will Wight's livestream yesterday, when he confessed that his prose graveyard on average when he got started is like 40-60k words. 😅 That doesn't happen to him anymore because he kept experimenting until he found a system that worked for him. I guess I'll just have to do the same!
I just purchased your book! I'm super excited to read it 🤠😁
😍 thank you so much for giving my book a shot. I hope you enjoy it!
Out of curiosity, why did you go with a Pen name for the novel?
Branding, basically. I'm already published with two kids bilingual picture books under my own name. It's not unconceivable that there might be overlap between the two target audiences-in fact, I know there is, because one of my friends is a bilingual parent and also reads epic fantasy. But by and large, the people who buy my kids books won't be interested in the fantasy novel, so keeping the fantasy novels under a separate pen name makes things less confusing.