Thinking about tropes before starting is honestly the best advice. Save yourself a lot of heartache and think about it early. It could literally be the difference between making money and watching your book sink like a stone.
Hi Mandi, can you please make a video on how to resize a book cover design in photoshop? Like if I made a premade cover and it got sold, how would I resize it to the buyers appropriate sizes.
I personally think you could have used a better example than Twilight because the book was maudlin in mood and tone with an abusive stalker-like relationship which is not healthy to readers wanting to experience their first love. But that is my opinion. Where would you use the pitch on your book? How would you place this elevator pitch to draw readers into your book? This has always confused me, but I am not a published author yet, and your videos are great. Also, could you do a video on how to write the blurb for a series of say five books of a fantasy romance, for marketing purposes? And would you write the blurb for each book and a separate one for the whole series? How would you market the series once it is finished, as apposed to releasing one book and writing the next one?
A lot of people post about how Twilight is trash but it sold like gangbusters. It clearly spoke to its target audience. When you start marketing you'll use your elevator pitch everywhere. From FB comments to your newsletter and advertising. The elevator pitch quickly lets your target audience know if this is for them or they should keep scrolling. I strongly recommend releasing each book individually first, that way you can use pricing strategies to draw in readers, run discounts and grow an audience. If you just release the series at a whole you're cutting yourself off from a lot of advantages. You'll need blurbs for each one and for the whole series. You'll also need long blurbs and short blurbs for each book as many promo sites have a strict character limit, e.g. 300 characters. Your marketing continues as long as you want that book to keep selling, it never stops, but they're not kidding when they say that the best thing you can do is write the next book. Rapid release is the easiest way to boost your marketing, but isn't for everyone.
Hi Mandi. I created my cover on canva for my low content book respecting the sizes required from Amazon kdp but for some reason my cover is not accepted. Do you have any course explaining how to create and upload the cover ?and if so could you leave a link please? Thanks 🙏🏼
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Thinking about tropes before starting is honestly the best advice. Save yourself a lot of heartache and think about it early. It could literally be the difference between making money and watching your book sink like a stone.
Love this video! Here's to having a blast with our first drafts! :D
Always great information
Hi Mandi, can you please make a video on how to resize a book cover design in photoshop? Like if I made a premade cover and it got sold, how would I resize it to the buyers appropriate sizes.
Yes!
Very nice
Hi Mandi any chance you can make a video about how to use universal fantasy at the chapter level? thanks!
I personally think you could have used a better example than Twilight because the book was maudlin in mood and tone with an abusive stalker-like relationship which is not healthy to readers wanting to experience their first love. But that is my opinion.
Where would you use the pitch on your book? How would you place this elevator pitch to draw readers into your book? This has always confused me, but I am not a published author yet, and your videos are great.
Also, could you do a video on how to write the blurb for a series of say five books of a fantasy romance, for marketing purposes? And would you write the blurb for each book and a separate one for the whole series? How would you market the series once it is finished, as apposed to releasing one book and writing the next one?
Fully disagree. The book is well loved by the target audience
A lot of people post about how Twilight is trash but it sold like gangbusters. It clearly spoke to its target audience.
When you start marketing you'll use your elevator pitch everywhere. From FB comments to your newsletter and advertising. The elevator pitch quickly lets your target audience know if this is for them or they should keep scrolling.
I strongly recommend releasing each book individually first, that way you can use pricing strategies to draw in readers, run discounts and grow an audience. If you just release the series at a whole you're cutting yourself off from a lot of advantages. You'll need blurbs for each one and for the whole series. You'll also need long blurbs and short blurbs for each book as many promo sites have a strict character limit, e.g. 300 characters. Your marketing continues as long as you want that book to keep selling, it never stops, but they're not kidding when they say that the best thing you can do is write the next book. Rapid release is the easiest way to boost your marketing, but isn't for everyone.
That is a good ideas to thinking it about on that! Good topics!
How do you self publish a historical book that is over 700 pages long when kdp's maximum is 500. I see books for sale with 1000 pages everywhere.
I'd recommend playing around with the formatting to get less pages (larger trim size, smaller spacing, etc)
What if you cannot find comparable titles ..
Hi Mandi. I created my cover on canva for my low content book respecting the sizes required from Amazon kdp but for some reason my cover is not accepted.
Do you have any course explaining how to create and upload the cover ?and if so could you leave a link please? Thanks 🙏🏼
Yes I'm experiencing the same thing!