TL DR I'm writing a lot more books, and getting more effective at letting the world know about them.Writefull is automated proofreading for academic writing. The people who buy it sign up for your list, and the next time you launch it gets into the top #800. You broadcast to a four digit list, and they get your book into the Amazon top #1,000. Basically I'm looking at the snowball effect. My mailing lists are getting larger as well, which makes every new launch more powerful than the last. Several are willing to help me with my science fiction pen name. I've also networked with the top authors in every genre I write, and have been brainstorming with them to increase sales. I'm hoping that will help my non-fiction get more momentum. I'll be documenting the writing of Destroyer, and putting that all out for the world to see. That always generates a massive spike (I've done it twice now).Īfter that I'll be running a highly publicized event called the 21 Day Novel Challenge. I'll be on almost all the major writing podcasts in the next few weeks to talk about Write to Market. Beyond that I have a lot of individual marketing tactics to give me sales spikes. Fast releases are very powerful, and tend to keep your ranks up on Amazon and other outlets. Mostly continuing to do what I'm doing, but faster and more efficiently. The larger my list has grown the more powerful it's become. It's an effective marketing channel, and I recommend every author set one up. Non-fiction is tiny, just shy of 100 people. How many people are on your mailing list? Is this your most effective marketing channel? No Such Thing As Werewolves has 610 on Audible and I didn't ask anyone to leave one. If you start selling a lot of books, then reviews will come rolling in. I asked at the end of the first book, and I mentioned how important they were in the communities where I hung out. Paid advertising is much more useful if you have 10 book for people to buy. As you have more books marketing makes more sense, but the first thing you need to do is make more content. In the beginning it was 95% writing, 5% marketing. When writing an outline I do it like this.ģ- Come up with cool, relatable protagonistĤ- Plot backwards to figure out how those two get to the epic ending. No one outlines by putting a capital I and then writing a topic. We're taught to outline in high school, and they do a terrible job of it.
But I'll ask anyway: on a high level, how do you recommend that writers improve plotting and outlining skills? I can guess that you're a heavy outliner, and I'm sure there's a lot of detail in your book 5,000 Words Per Hour. I try not to work on more than three things at once, but occasionally I don't have a choice due to pre-order deadlines. The moment I finished one project's writing, I move immediately into the next. One of them is actively being written, and the next is being plotted and outlined. I generally work on two projects at a time. Typically, how many projects are you working on at once? For example, what stage are each of your upcoming books in right now? With 12 books coming out this year, you have a lot going on.
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