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Self-Publishing Romance – Six Steps To Writing About Love

Six tips on how the best self-published romance writers make it work.

1. Niche it up.

The best romance books are those with a niche, that is, they have a definable sub-genre on Amazon. For instance, cowboy meets farm girl, billionaire meets poor girl, jazz singer meets music student, antiques dealer meets woman with an old mansion. You can also try going with a theme, such as clean and wholesome, time travel, cowboys, or even aliens… look at indie author Linda Cousine’s “middle-aged hottie” niche. It’s menopausal romance in her ‘wit lit ‘style!

2. Make your characters strong and

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Lysa Grant2020-02-17T08:12:50+02:00February 14th, 2020|Categories: Features|Tags: Book Promotion|

How Can I Sell Books In An Election Year?

Our tips for selling books and engaging readers during the 2020 Election.

Whatever side you’re on, selling books this year will be tough. Why? Because people are busy reading about politics and watching TV in a way they do not at other times.

What can I do to weather low sales this year?

Go local. Where in your community would people buy your book despite the Election? If your book is about science fiction or fantasy, is there a games workshop near you, or a science group who would love to hear you talk about your book? Clubs and societies […]

Cate Baum2020-02-21T06:42:38+02:00February 13th, 2020|Categories: Features|Tags: Amazon, Book Marketing|

How To Get Honest Book Reviews in 2020

Here are four simple methods to get honest book reviews in 2020. Authors are always looking for new ways to get reviews for their book, but most want an honest opinion. Attracting readers to buy your book is difficult enough, but getting them to leave a review is even harder.

Use a reader mailing list service. There are only two main services you can rely upon that result in Amazon Verified Customer Reviews (proof the reader actually bought the book) and sales within Amazon’s Review Guidelines. Both services have huge mailing lists of readers who buy, read, and review books. […]

Cate Baum2020-02-12T09:45:16+02:00February 12th, 2020|Categories: Features, Member Blog|Tags: Amazon, Book Promotion, Book Reviews|

How Do I Sell Books in 2020?

It’s 2020. You have written your book and published it, but nobody is buying it. What works, what doesn’t work? Things have changed for authors but many points of information still churn out the same old advice. We take a look at what’s needed to become a success.

Price is all

Maybe there was a time when you could price your Kindle book at $9.99 and someone might buy it. But now, if you are an indie author, the best price point is between 99 cents and $2.99. Remember that it is better to sell ten books at 99 cents […]

Cate Baum2020-02-21T05:53:13+02:00February 11th, 2020|Categories: Features|Tags: Amazon, Book Marketing|

How To Get Your Book Turned Into A Movie

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Cate Baum2022-09-19T10:44:23+02:00February 9th, 2020|Categories: Features|

How to Optimize Your Book’s Sales Page on Amazon

Your Amazon product page is your book’s final sales page. It is the page that will ultimately dictate which browsers become readers. That means, you need to make it as inviting as possible–you want to optimize your page and draw in more sales and ‘one-click buys.’ After all, authors are always looking to level up their book marketing strategy.

Luckily, Amazon does a lot of the technical work for you. If you were to create a sales page on your website, you’d have to do all the positioning and testing to see what works. When you sell on Amazon, […]

Dave Chesson2020-02-10T11:06:21+02:00February 8th, 2020|Categories: Features, Member Blog|Tags: Amazon, Book Promotion, Dave Chesson|

Why Authors Should Stop Blogging Now

If you’re a self-published author, or plan to become one soon, you’ve probably read plenty of great advice about building your online platform. And I’m betting that a common theme is that you should blog regularly.

And here’s why that’s poor advice:

If you set up a blog on your own website, and only ever post there, you risk only reaching people you’ve already reached! It doesn’t matter how engaging, fascinating, controversial, or informative your articles are. It’s irrelevant whether you blog about your writing process, share tips for other authors, take the reader behind the scenes, or offer bonus […]

SPR2020-02-06T06:17:11+02:00February 6th, 2020|Categories: Features, Member Blog|Tags: Author Blogging|

Introducing Bookvertiser: Book Marketing with Results

The team at SPR has created a new book promotion service for authors: Bookvertiser.

The service is a similar process to SPR’s own Amazon Promotions, but with more flexible options, such as the ability to gain 200 sales at once, and new monthly promotions where you can attain 4-5 sales and 50 sales a month to maintain momentum.

The full list of services are:

Kindle Book Sales

We target reader demographics who are likely to buy your book, based on age, gender, interests, and other important factors. You can receive 50, 100, and 200 sales at a time, […]

SPR2020-02-04T01:32:45+02:00February 4th, 2020|Categories: Features, News|Tags: Book Marketing, Book Promotion|