What I have been up to in October Welcome to this October publication report on my writing life! In October, I published 33 e-books, which is more than the average of about 25. They were in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Four of most difficult languages to get translators and […]
Boosting sales does not come naturally to any author I know. However, it is second in importance only to having written a saleable book! Learn a helpful tip on this page…
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How is your book cover sense? Have your book covers become old friends, or are they still the equal advertising partners they once were?
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Today, some friends suggested that I should consider republishing books from my flagship series Behind The Smile. However, I find it almost impossible to contemplate, but ih has to be considered.
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People say that one should never judge a book by its cover, but it is widely acknowledged that having a great book cover is the best way of selling books. It seems that people do not pay any heed the ancient advice.
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How many authors are not making a living from books they have written? Come and see what we’re doing about it in these difficult times
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I am hoping that our new garden fish pond will be an area of cool relaxation, tranquillity and delight for us, which will be great for writing. I could do with that as I have not written much over the last few years due a lack of stability in my life and a disappointing drop in sales, which could be the result of a culture shift brought on by Covid 19.
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This article concern our opinion on indie book sales in 2021 for most of the indie authors and the indie book market as a whole
2016 – Book Sales Well, Happy 2016, I really do hope that you are well and also that you are doing better than I am so far this year. I realise that we are only three days into 2016, but I hope that they are not an indication of what is to come. One book
Revenue To paraphrase a TV advert of many years ago concerning my current revenue, I ain’t never seen a year like this one and I never want to again neither. Based on previous years’ figures and the fact that my stock of books keeps increasing as I write more every year, in January, I was
Tracking Online Book Sales I am writing this article on book sales as a follow-on from my piece yesterday entitled ‘Selling Books Online’. If you are going to be spending your precious life promoting your books, or anything else for that matter, it’s only sensible to want to know which activities are producing book and
Bookshop at Megan Publishing I have just about finished implementing a bookshop on this site, so I hope that you like it, because I can honestly tell you that I found it hard-going! Anyway, it seems to be working now 🙂 Listings in the bookshop are paid-only, but I know what budgets can be
