How to Sell A Book, if you are made out of GOLD Last week, we dealt with the cheap and unglamorous world of book promo sites. This week, we go to Madison Avenue, or at least to… Harry 8 November 2024 1 Comment
How to Sell A Book, if you’re Billy No-Mates Last week, I explained that the trick of selling on Amazon is to achieve steadily growing traffic and sales over 4-7 days. In effect, you’re… Harry 1 November 2024 0 Comments
How to Sell A Book, if you’re a robot Over the last couple of weeks, we thought about how to sell books the traditional way – print books sold through physical bookstores. The short… Harry 25 October 2024 1 Comment
How to Sell A Book, if you’re a portly gentleman running for a door Last week, I talked about how print-led publishing is essentially dominated by the battle to secure retail space. If your book gets a really good… Harry 18 October 2024 0 Comments
How to Sell A Book, if you smoke a pipe and wear tweed Last week, I talked about how selling print books is a very different proposition from selling ebooks. Print books can’t change their covers, can’t radically… Harry 11 October 2024 3 Comments
How to sell a book This is the first in a season of emails on how to sell a book. Today’s email will cover the shape of the industry as… Harry 4 October 2024 4 Comments
The corpse on the page Last week, I said: “As you write, and as you edit, you are faced with 1,000,000 choices: again and again and again. Are you happy… Harry 27 September 2024 1 Comment
Hunting for vowels in Bryngwyn Who do you write for? I mean, readers, yes, obviously. But who? Your mum? That old English teacher you loved? Crime fans in general? People… Harry 20 September 2024 1 Comment
Pitching backwards, and Standing Stones Last week, I threw out a Feedback Friday challenge based off the first volume of our Good To Great course. The essence of that task,… Harry 13 September 2024 0 Comments
Good to Great There’s a sweet sadness about early September, isn’t there? The leaves aren’t quite turning, but they’re thinking about it. It isn’t quite cold enough for… Harry 6 September 2024 0 Comments