Handling reviews as an author: getting them, reading them, surviving the bad ones, and what criticism versus critique actually means.
Amazon & KDPMost of my books sit at four and five stars, but every author eventually meets the brutal one-star takedown. The first one stings; it does not have to derail you. After 113+ books, here is how I read a bad…
Amazon & KDPReview bombing is the practice of flooding a product, service, or creator with coordinated negative reviews that have little to do with actual quality. Here is where it hits hardest, the structural conflicts that make it worse, how to spot…
Amazon & KDPBooks without reviews struggle to sell. It is that simple. As an author of more than 113 self-published books, I have watched books with a handful of honest reviews outsell books with none, regardless of quality. Here is how to…
Amazon & KDPYou know your book will sell, but the sheer weight of everything between draft and published makes you want to quit. You do not have to carry it alone. A small team of volunteers and contractors gets it done faster…
Amazon & KDPGoodreads has millions of readers and a troll problem to match, full of fake reviews, extortion scams, and no real support when things go wrong. For most authors the abuse outweighs the exposure. Here is what actually goes wrong on…
AI and WritingRichard Lowe (The Writing King) joins leadership coach Drew Sutton to unpack what actually sits behind a powerful book: the ghostwriter, and specifically
Authority BuildingRichard Lowe, The Writing King, joined Robert Plank on the Marketer of the Day show for a wide-ranging talk about the parts of an author's life that have
AmazonRichard Lowe, The Writing King, joined Steve on Episode 60 of the ROI Online Podcast for an unusually concrete session: how to fix a LinkedIn profile, how
Book ReviewsRichard Lowe, The Writing King, co-hosted a virtual book launch party with Bonnie K.T. Dillabough, a celebration built around two new titles at once
Book ReviewsRichard Lowe, The Writing King, sat down with Bonnie Dillabough, The Web Woman and Bookaholic, for a wide-ranging conversation about the unusual road that
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