I now have 10 books out and am working on the next two. I released two at once, then a third shortly afterwards. Emulate the successful authors of your genre. This goes for plot, voice, and story elements, but also for your cover and book description. But you need to incorporate some of the elements that make books in that genre sell. You still need to write an original book.

As a fiction author it means studying the most successful books in your genre, and deconstructing why readers of the genre love them.

It just means that whatever genre you write in, you have to be highly familiar with what readers of that genre actually buy, and create something that follows their criteria.įor me, as a non-fiction writer, this means solving problems that my audience are having, and answering questions they’re asking. Write to the marketĭoes this mean you have to stifle your creativity and only write mass market, commercial books? No. If you’re just setting out I hope some of these will help you raise those sale numbers.

I have learned a few tips along the way that may be of use to newer indie authors. I’ve also given away thousands of books, but I’ll come to that in a minute. But every single one of those 7000 copies were paid downloads. Most of the books I’ve sold were at the 99 cent price mark. So maybe there are indie authors out there who might actually want to know how a nobody like me managed to sell over 7000.įirstly I should point out that’s selling 7000 Kindle books will not make you rich. However, I read recently that the majority of self-published authors sell less than 100 copies of their books. We’re talking about people like Alinka Rutowska, author of How I Sold 80,000 Books and John Locke, author of How I Sold 1 Million eBooks In 5 Months. The people I follow online have sold a lot more than 7000 books. I’ve tended to follow the advice that if you’re the smartest person in the room you need to find smarter room (though I’ve recently completely re-thought that advice) so I surround myself with people way smarter, and more successful, than me. There’s a reason I’ve never written an article about how many books I’ve sold.

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