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Francis Hamit commented on the blog post The 99 Cent Debate 6 days, 10 hours ago · View
Well, an update here: The 99 cent experiment on “The Shenandoah Spy” is over and was not successful. My goal really was 100,000 copies, in the spirit of what Darcie Chan was able to do with her first novel “The Mill River Recluse” (which is a pretty good book, IMO). She’s sold over 400,000 copies [...]
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Francis Hamit commented on the blog post The 99 Cent Debate 1 month, 1 week ago · View
Currently, as an experiment, I have my novel “The Shenandoah Spy” which has a lot of five star reviews, on special sale for 99 cents for the e-book. The goal is to sell 100,000 copies by January 8, 2012. I have promoted it extensively and done all the social media things one is supposed to [...]
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Francis Hamit commented on the blog post Amazon is (Not) the Devil 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
I’m putting Amazon to the test on Kindle. I dropped the price of the e-book edition of “The Shenandoah Spy” , which has multiple five star reviews, from $9.99 to 99 cents. The print edition sells for $22.50. This is only until January 8, 2012. By then I expect to sell 100,000 copies using social [...]
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Francis Hamit commented on the blog post Copyright, Publication Rights, Kindle, and YOU
Registration is easy and can be done online now. You can do group registrations over a year’s time to get all of your work on one registration. There is no time limit to register, but to get the current statutory protections, you should do it within 90 days of publication, or as an [...]
1 year, 11 months ago · View
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Francis Hamit commented on the blog post So Much Traffic, No More Parking Spots
The solution is simple: Abolish genre categories and concentrate on good writing and storytelling. Readers who limit themselves by sating they only read certain types of books simply impose illiteracy upon themselves. As for getting attention, we have to think long-term and promote over a period if years rather than weeks. [...]
1 year, 11 months ago · View
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Francis Hamit commented on the blog post Self-Publishing via the Espresso Book Machine
Whoops. I didn’t realize that the ship is no longer in service. That will limit your market but you might see if the crusise line will sell you their mailing list of previous passengers and try sending out post cards. And it is is being set up as a hotel museum, I would contact [...]
2 years ago · View
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Francis Hamit commented on the blog post Self-Publishing via the Espresso Book Machine
George:
It’s a travel book. The first people I would contact are the QE@ publicity department. If they don’t buy copies, they can at least recommend it to people who are considering the same trip. Then I would set up a Facebook page for the book and link it to the website for [...]2 years ago · View
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Francis Hamit joined the group Book Design for Self-Publishers 2 years ago · View
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francis-hamit wrote a new blog post: Changing Distribution Channels Will Affect How You Price Your Next Book
The Borders chain has been in trouble for quite awhile, and now it seems that all of their 45 stores in the United Kingdom will close. 200 Borders stores in the USA will also close. This used to be a great place to do [...]
2 years, 2 months ago · View
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Francis Hamit wrote a new blog post: Changing Distribution Channels Will Affect How You Price Your Next Book 2 years, 2 months ago · View
The Borders chain has been in trouble for quite awhile, and now it seems that all of their 45 stores in the United Kingdom will close. 200 Borders stores in the USA will also close. This used to be a great place to do book signings and readings and otherwise promote a new book, but no more. [...] -
Francis Hamit wrote a new blog post: Street Level Views of Book Marketing
We did another little book tour in August. It was time. The economy was creating a stagnant sales profile, and we know that doing a few book signings primes the pump. We made our arrangements with four Hastings Entertainment stores, two of which [...]
2 years, 4 months ago · View
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Francis Hamit wrote a new blog post: Street Level Views of Book Marketing 2 years, 4 months ago · View
We did another little book tour in August. It was time. The economy was creating a stagnant sales profile, and we know that doing a few book signings primes the pump. We made our arrangements with four Hastings Entertainment stores, two of which we were at last year. (This makes a total of sixteen book [...] -
francis-hamit wrote a new blog post: In Praise of Billy Mays
When that ubiquitous television pitchman Billy Mays died recently, I had just started watching the reality series about him and his partner, Anthony Sullivan, appropriately called “Pitchmen”, on the Discovery Channel. I’ve done a lot of sales work over the years as “day jobs” supporting my writing career; so [...]
2 years, 7 months ago · View
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Francis Hamit wrote a new blog post: In Praise of Billy Mays 2 years, 7 months ago · View
When that ubiquitous television pitchman Billy Mays died recently, I had just started watching the reality series about him and his partner, Anthony Sullivan, appropriately called “Pitchmen”, on the Discovery Channel. I’ve done a lot of sales work over the years as “day jobs” supporting my writing career; so much so that I tend to forget [...] -
Francis Hamit wrote a new blog post: Marketing: Your Title Defines Your Book and Your Brand
The issue of branding is critical to a self-published author; It defines your book and it also defines you in the public mind. The obvious problem here is to find a title that stands out from the rest, attracts the attention of potential buyers and actually tells them [...]
2 years, 9 months ago · View
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Francis Hamit wrote a new blog post: Marketing: Your Title Defines Your Book and Your Brand 2 years, 9 months ago · View
The issue of branding is critical to a self-published author; It defines your book and it also defines you in the public mind. The obvious problem here is to find a title that stands out from the rest, attracts the attention of potential buyers and actually tells them what the book is about. It is [...] -
Francis Hamit wrote a new blog post: A Few (Thousand) Words with Carol Buchanan 2 years, 9 months ago · View
Introduction: Carol Buchanan is the author of the self-published novel God’s Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana , winner of the 2009 Spur Award for Best First Novel . I met Carol Buchanan online, when we were both posting to the boards of the Amazon Shorts program. Both of us were frustrated by the barriers currently erected by the mainstream publishing [...] -
Francis Hamit wrote a new blog post: A Few (Thousand) Words with Carol Buchanan
Introduction: Carol Buchanan is the author of the self-published novel God’s Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana, winner of the 2009 Spur Award for Best First Novel. I met Carol Buchanan online, when we were both posting to the boards of the Amazon Shorts program. [...]
2 years, 9 months ago · View
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Francis Hamit wrote a new blog post: Self-Published Novel Wins Major Literary Award
That’s a headline we’ll be seeing more of in the future. The barrier erected by agents on behalf of publishers has come back to haunt them. In this instance we are talking about Carol Buchanan’s historical thriller God’s Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana which has already been <a [...]
2 years, 10 months ago · View
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Francis Hamit wrote a new blog post: Self-Published Novel Wins Major Literary Award 2 years, 10 months ago · View
That’s a headline we’ll be seeing more of in the future. The barrier erected by agents on behalf of publishers has come back to haunt them. In this instance we are talking about Carol Buchanan’s historical thriller God’s Thunderbolt: The Vigilantes of Montana which has already been reviewed by SPR . It just won the 2009 Spur Award for [...] - Load More
