Book MarketingBefore a book meant to sell gets written, check the Amazon categories it would live in. KDSPY and Publisher Rocket show what the top titles sell, how crowded the shelf is and how long the books run, and that decides…
Book MarketingIf your book ads get clicks but no sales, the ad did its job. The sale is dying on the product page. Covers, blurbs, AI branding and genre-hopping, and what to check first.
Book MarketingReaders want clean editions of spicy romances, but two versions of one book on KDP can trip duplicate content rules. Amazon closed my account over less. Safer ways to offer both.
Book MarketingKindle Unlimited usually pays more for fiction sold through retailers, and it no longer blocks libraries. Going wide wins when you're ready for direct sales. Why the 90-days-then-wide plan fails.
Book MarketingMost ARC readers never leave a review. Real follow-through numbers from authors and my own books, Amazon's rules on review copies, and what research says about reviews and sales.
Book MarketingOnce you publish, flattering emails from fake readers, book clubs, promoters and even famous literary agents start arriving. They're AI-written scams with no price until you reply. Here's how to spot them and what to do.
Book MarketingAgents reject well-written novels every day, and quiet literary fiction is the hardest sell of all. Why a good book isn't enough, and what sells books.
Book MarketingSince September 21, 2026, Amazon KDP lets you create only two new titles per format per week. The limit punishes fast, honest authors who write short fiction, release box sets or publish translations, and it won't stop scammers or AI…
Book MarketingSelling a self-published book is hard because millions of books compete for attention and nobody is looking for yours. The books that sell are aimed at a specific audience and sold directly, at events, on live sessions and one conversation…
Book MarketingQuora used to be the smartest room on the internet, with real experts answering under their real names. Then it paid writers like me for questions, cut that pay to almost nothing, cut its moderators, filled up with AI answers…
Book MarketingOnly 17 percent of time on Facebook goes to friends' posts now, by Mark Zuckerberg's own testimony. My reach slid for years and then fell off a cliff everywhere at once. Here's why social media sucks, what fills the feed,…
Book MarketingReddit runs on unpaid volunteers, sells what its users write to Google and OpenAI, and has turned into a target for bots and marketers because AI search cites it more than almost any other site. Here's why it sucks, and…
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