Using Amazon Attribution to Manage the Success of Facebook Ads
One of the marketing problems I’ve always had as an author is knowing if my Facebooks Ads (or other similar platforms) actually produced a sale. …
Writing
Caroline Tangent Added as Kindle Monthly Deal
The Other Times Of Caroline Tangent has been selected by Amazon as one of their UK 99p Kindle Monthly Deals for all of May. This …
How Not to Behave if You Win a Book Award
Last week, I won the adult fiction category of the 2022 Selfies Book Awards*. I have just about stopped grinning gormlessly by now. But I …
My Experience of BookBub for Indie Authors
Last week, my novel went from selling a few copies a day to becoming an Amazon number 1 bestseller for Time Travel in the UK, …
My First Page Before It Was Edited
I was looking back today at my original manuscript of The Other Times of Caroline Tangent, before my editor, Lucy York got hold of it …
How I Sold My First 1000 Books: The Marketing
Following on from my introductory post that details I have just reached a mini-milestone of 1000 book sales for my self-published novel, The Other Times …
How I Sold My First 1000 Books (Part One)
I have just reached a mini-milestone for sales of my self-published novel, The Other Times of Caroline Tangent: 1000 books sold. Whoop! So, I thought …
Researching 1970s New York (as a British Author)
Part of my novel is set in New York in the 1970s. I have been to Manhattan myself several times over the last twenty years, …
Using Nielsen Publishing Services as an Indie Author
Because I decided not to distribute my books exclusively with Amazon, I used Nielsen for two specific parts of my self-publishing process: Buying ISBN numbers …
Printing Paperbacks with Clays
For my forthcoming novel, The Other Times of Caroline Tangent, I decided I would produce paperback copies through a book printer rather than Amazon/POD. This …