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How to Write: Tons of Tips, Tactics and Tirades on Writing
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- Éditeur:
- Greg Strandberg
- Sortie:
- May 7, 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781513082622
- Format:
- Livre
Description
Anyone can write, and anyone can self-publish. That doesn’t mean your books will sell or anyone will care about them. How can you change that?
I’ve been self-publishing for more than 2 years and in that time I’ve put out more than 50 books and written more than 2 million words. I want to show you how you can do the same.
In this Updated for Volume you’ll get 25 new chapters for more than 110 total chapters. This covers everything from the basics of Amazon to advanced eBook marketing techniques.
I’ll tell you about eBook covers, pricing and editing.
There are several chapters on perma-free, using Goodreads and promo sites, and two whole sections on how to write fantasy.
You’ll be informed of the strategies and techniques that can get you writing 100,000 words a month with several chapters on writing faster.
To top it all off I’ll offer lots of blow-ups, speculation, controversy and conspiracy – the tirades you were promised.
That totals more than 550 pages and more than 120,000 words. It’s a lot, but if you’re looking to get started in self-publishing, it’ll be quite valuable, and save you a lot of time.
So what are you waiting for? Stop waiting for your writing dreams to come true and start making them happen. Buy this book today!
Informations sur le livre
How to Write: Tons of Tips, Tactics and Tirades on Writing
Longueur: 640 pages6 heures
Description
Anyone can write, and anyone can self-publish. That doesn’t mean your books will sell or anyone will care about them. How can you change that?
I’ve been self-publishing for more than 2 years and in that time I’ve put out more than 50 books and written more than 2 million words. I want to show you how you can do the same.
In this Updated for Volume you’ll get 25 new chapters for more than 110 total chapters. This covers everything from the basics of Amazon to advanced eBook marketing techniques.
I’ll tell you about eBook covers, pricing and editing.
There are several chapters on perma-free, using Goodreads and promo sites, and two whole sections on how to write fantasy.
You’ll be informed of the strategies and techniques that can get you writing 100,000 words a month with several chapters on writing faster.
To top it all off I’ll offer lots of blow-ups, speculation, controversy and conspiracy – the tirades you were promised.
That totals more than 550 pages and more than 120,000 words. It’s a lot, but if you’re looking to get started in self-publishing, it’ll be quite valuable, and save you a lot of time.
So what are you waiting for? Stop waiting for your writing dreams to come true and start making them happen. Buy this book today!
- Éditeur:
- Greg Strandberg
- Sortie:
- May 7, 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781513082622
- Format:
- Livre
À propos de l'auteur
Greg Strandberg was born and raised in Helena, Montana. He graduated from the University of Montana in 2008 with a BA in History.
When the American economy began to collapse Greg quickly moved to China, where he became a slave for the English language industry. After five years of that nonsense he returned to Montana in June, 2013.
When not writing his blogs, novels, or web content for others, Greg enjoys reading, hiking, biking, and spending time with his wife and young son.
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Introduction
My books don’t sell. Well, they sell, just not a whole lot. So if you’re looking for a writer that makes a lot of money and can sit back and dispense advice because of it, then you’ll probably want to find another book. If, on the other hand, you’re looking for someone with ideas on how to get started in self-publishing quickly and write a lot of books even faster, then I might be able to help.
I began publishing with Amazon in January 2013. I started writing my first serious novel about two years before that. It’s now November 2014 and this will be my 50th self-published book on Amazon and several other eBook retailers.
Many of these chapters you’re about to read were written on my website, and many of them are promotional in nature. I’ve changed them little if at all, and if that bothers you, I’d suggest not buying this book. But if you’re trying to build your author platform and get people interested in your work, they will give you insight, they will give you ideas.
I made just about every mistake there was in the book during my self-publishing journey, and many of them I’ve made twice. I hope you don’t have to make them and that’s one of the reasons I put this book together.
You’ll get more than 130 chapters here, everything from the basics of Amazon to advanced eBook marketing techniques.
– I’ll tell you about eBook covers, pricing and editing.
– There are several chapters on perma-free and two whole sections on how to write fantasy.
– I write more than 100,000 words a month and you’d probably like to as well, so there are several chapters on that.
– To top it all off I’ll offer lots of blow-ups and controversy and conspiracy...the tirades you were promised.
That totals more than 550 pages and just over 120,000 words. It’s a lot, but if you’re looking to get started in self-publishing, it’ll be quite valuable, and save you a helluva lot of time.
Good luck...and thanks for reading!
Part I
The Nuts and Bolts of Self Publishing on Amazon
1: Self-Publishing on Amazon 101
I spent a good two hours last night reworking my ‘Blurbs’ document which I use when self-publishing on Amazon. This document is large, about 19 pages. It’s so large in fact, that I put a table of contents at the top of it to make navigating through it easier. I can’t just zoom out; I need to see the links in the document.
It made me think of all the other problems I have due to the amount of books I have selling on Amazon and Smashwords. Self-publishing on Amazon can often be fraught with perils, just as self-publishing on Smashwords can.
Through self-publishing on Amazon I’ve been able to get 11 books out there, and that means I’ve got to have 2 to 3 descriptions, or blurbs, for each. Links have to be assigned properly, and all need covers. Each book has different formatting needs as well as certain marketing aspects. Pricing is a factor, even for the same book in different retailers. And let’s not forget about all the time spent not writing when I’m working on publishing. There’s a lot that goes into self publishing on Amazon, so let’s take a look at each point in turn.
Blurbs
If you’re self publishing on Amazon and Smashwords, you’ll need at least 2 different blurbs, and perhaps 3. Amazon is pretty simple: you can write whatever you want, and however much you want. There are also some neat formatting tricks you can use to make your text stand out with bold fonts and colors.
Smashwords, on the other hand, acts like the meat grinder they’re so fond of comparing themselves to. You have to have one short blurb that comes in at about 400 to 500 characters. The other is a longer blurb that can be an exact copy of the blurb you used for self publishing on Amazon, its length being up to you.
Links
I’ve got lots of links that I need to update each time I put out a new eBook. First, there’s the new link, or two in my case since I’m using both Amazon and Smashwords. When my new book goes live, I’ll get the link. I make the link as small as I can, meaning I only have the site name and the book code, whether it’s an ASIN or ISBN.
Now I’ve got to put those into my blurbs document. I have two sections in the document, one for my About the Author
page for self publishing on Amazon, the other for Smashwords. The reason I have two is because I put these links on there, and both retailers get angry if they see those links. This can cause your book to be delayed in the publishing process, and you might have to republish it.
I have very short blurbs on my About the Author page for each of my 11 books. A new blurb, of about 50 words, has to be added for the new book. I always include the title in there, and that’s where the link is anchored. Now I’ve got to go and paste that new About the Author page into each of my books, which is really 22 different books since I need 2 files for each, one for self publishing on Amazon and one for Smashwords. And then I’ve got to publish them all again.
Is this worth it? I think so. Who knows which buyers will scroll all the way down to that page and check out your other books? That one extra blurb could be a new reader, and perhaps not just for that book, but for your others as well.
Covers
Every time you’re self publishing on Amazon your book will need a cover. That means I’ve got to find and pay someone to make it for me. I nearly always do this on Freelancer.com, often with varying results.
When I finish a new book, I make up a ‘mock’ cover myself of the direction I’d like to go in. These always look bad. You can tell with a quick glance that they’re not really professional, and I still have 3 of these DIY covers out there.
An important consideration that I’ve only begun to look seriously at lately is the thumbnail size of your cover. If people can’t see what your title is or make out your picture at 250x250 or less, then you’re probably going to have some problems. This is always an ongoing struggle when it comes to self publishing on Amazon, and sometimes you might have to sacrifice aesthetic elements for the sake of sales.
Formatting
Formatting is a pain, especially if you’re using html, which I’m just starting in on. I often feel like pulling my hair out when I’m going through each line of my books one-by-one, but perhaps it needs to be done. You can do a lot more with html than you can without, like make the first letter of a new chapter stand out and give the chapter titles some color.
I can usually get away these days with formatting my book easily enough for both Amazon and Smashwords, at least the non-fiction books. I always write those in such a way that I’m formatting as I go, which makes the end formatting so much easier. One of the main problems is with fiction, however. I’m always having problems with tabs, line spacing, and other mundane issues that compromise my perfectionist tendencies. These things are often easy enough to resolve, and when you are self publishing on Amazon often enough you get better at it.
Pricing
How do you price a new book? When do you make that decision? Usually when I’m writing I’ll get a good idea of the value I think the book imparts, as well as what I can ask for it. I’ve got books on Amazon and Smashwords right now ranging in price from $0.99 to $9.99 and I’ve even had some of them listed as free form time-to-time.
One of my latest books, the Tarot book, is listed for $0.99 on Amazon, but $2.99 on Smashwords. I’ve gotten sales on Smashwords before when the same title isn’t selling well on Amazon. I’m trying this tactic out, and I’m curious as to how it will go.
Marketing
I hate marketing my books; I’d much rather be writing another. But marketing is often a necessary good, or evil, when you’re self publishing on Amazon. There are many ways you can market your books, and chances are you already have the tools at your fingertips.
Nearly everyone has social media accounts like Facebook and Twitter, so send the word out. If you’ve got email you’ve probably got contacts. Send your closest the links to your book. If you don’t have a website, now would be a great time to start one. Blogs and forums are out there in plenty regardless of your niche, and establishing a presence that doesn’t badger or blather could help out your long-term sales.
Advertising is always an option, and there are many avenues to go down, including BookBub advertisements, Facebook ads, and a whole lot more. Don’t neglect print advertising or newspapers if you think your book is something special. Press releases to the right people could pay off, even if it’s just 1 out of 100.
Consider giving several copies of your book away to people who will review it for free. Several months could roll by before you see anything, but it’s just another weapon in your marketing arsenal when you embark on the quest of self publishing on Amazon.
Writing
It seems with each book that I put out I’ve got less time to write a new one. Obviously that doesn’t last too long, or stop me, however. Still, I’ve just finished 2 more books and now have nothing substantial in the pipeline. A feeling of emptiness is welling up inside.
The best thing to do when that happens is to write something. I’ve got a few novel ideas, and there’s always another non-fiction idea out there that people could be better informed about. The key is finding a balance between your dual role as a publisher and as a writer when you embark on the often perilous and painstaking path of self publishing on Amazon.
2: How Do Amazon’s Ranking Algorithms Work?
Amazon just isn’t the same. Anyone buying books regularly on Amazon has surely seen the way that books are shown has fundamentally changed. Instead of getting lots of books with reviews listed you’ll instead see 60 different book covers. Those covers will be displayed quite prominently, meaning covers will sell your books or cause them to languish in obscurity.
How you get onto that first page of 60 results really depends on how many reviews you’ve managed to rack up. Your customers won’t see those reviews at first, but Amazon will be using them to determine where your book belongs in the rankings.
And don’t forget that there are still Top 100 lists for both paid and free books. These lists will often behave completely differently than the other search list results will. So let’s get ready to see exactly what Amazon is like these days, and how it can affect your sales.
A Generic Fantasy
Search
This is the screen you’ll get when you begin searching for Kindle books. Simply choose the Shop by Department option, select Books, and then Kindle Books. After that you’ll want to type in your search word. For this example I’ll type in Fantasy
and this is what comes up:
You can see that 60 books pop up, showing their cover, title, and price. The main thing is that you’re really seeing lots and lots of covers, from free books to books that are more expensive; from books with hundreds of reviews to books with just a few dozen reviews.
The important thing to remember is that reviews and/or purchases are putting these 60 books on this first page. Now, let’s take a look at the reviews first.
Reviews & Prices
– Reviews: There are 60 books listed. The book with the lowest amount of reviews only has 7 reviews while the book with the highest number of reviews has 5,713. The average number of reviews for these 60 books is 356.
– Prices: Again looking at the 60 books listed we can see that the lowest price is $0.00, which occurs on a whopping 47 of the books listed. That means that just 13 books require readers to pay, or just 21.6% of the books on that first page. Of those paid books, the lowest price is $0.99 and the highest is $7.59, for an average price of $0.76 with all the free books thrown in.
So What Does This Mean?
Now, that first page lists 60 books. There are 400 pages just like this for a total of 111,910 books. And it’s not until you get to page 7, or through 360 books, that you get to any books that don’t have a single review. So you can take away a few things from this:
– Unless you have reviews you’re not going to be coming up on the first 6 pages;
– Most people looking for fantasy books will probably only look through the first 2 to 3 pages;
– Your cover is now the first thing customers see and the only thing that’ll get them interested.
Categories
Now, those are the results you get when you simply type in Fantasy
and do a search under Kindle Books. If you click on one of the categories, or departments, listed on the sidebar you’ll get different results. Some of the books are different and some books that show up in the Fantasy
category don’t show up in the Epic Fantasy
category and vice versa.
Another thing to consider is that these results are listed based on ‘Relevance.’ You can choose another search option, such as Avg. Customer Review
or Price: Low to High
and get completely different results. The Relevance
search is what Amazon will automatically do, however.
Many of the books that are doing well in the categories won’t be doing that well in the general genre search, which in this case is Fantasy,
Also, some books that are performing worse in the categories will be doing better in the general search.
Why is this? I’m not sure. It doesn’t seem to be the reviews that are doing it, so it could be the downloads or sales. Still, you’d think that would cause that book to come up higher on the general search results. That’s not the case, so who knows what’s going on exactly?
Top Fantasy Books on Amazon
Let’s take a look at the top book showing up when we do a search for Fantasy
in the Kindle Books department.
The first book that comes up is called Knights: The Eye of Divinity. This is Book 1 of the Knights Series and has 76 customer reviews: 33 are 5-star, 25 are 4-star, 10 are 3-star, 7 are 2-star, and 1 review is 1-star. The book therefore has an average of 4.1 stars out of 5.
But how is it doing in its categories? You’d think that if this book is coming up as the top search result for Fantasy
it’d be leading in one of its categories as well. This just isn’t the case, however.
Knights: The Eye of Divinity is coming up in the following three categories of Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Fantasy:
– Fairy Tales – #30
– Sword & Sorcery – #30
– Epic – #34
So this book isn’t even cracking the top 20 in any of its particular categories. But it is still coming up as the first result when you search the much broader category of Fantasy.
The second book listed when you do a Fantasy
search is The Book of Deacon, which is actually performing better in the categories than the first book, Knight: The Eye of Divinity.
The Book of Deacon comes up as:
– Sword & Sorcery – #10
– Epic – #11
So why is another book that has lower category rankings coming up before a book with higher category rankings?
Deacon has 637 reviews compared to Knight’s 76. The average review is also higher for Deacon than it is for Knight, coming in at 4.3 vs. 4.1. Both books are free so we can’t compare them there, although Knight was published more than a year later than Deacon, which doesn’t seem to have any bearing on the ranking.
I think it’s therefore safe to assume that Knights is simply getting downloaded more often than Deacon, even though Deacon is beating it out in 2 categories. Interesting, and not very helpful!
Top 100 Fantasy Books on Amazon
Now, perhaps you thought that was about all there was to it. Well, think again! Those were the books that come up when you simply do a generic search of Fantasy
books in the Kindle department. What happens if you start looking at the Top 100 lists?
There are 2 main Top 100 lists: Paid and Free. Let’s take a look at each of those:
– Top 100 Paid: When you do a search of a category such as Fantasy
and look at the Top 100 books you won’t see any that showed up in our first search. Well, that’s not quite true: the 9th book in our first search is now the 2nd book in the Top 100 Paid Search. The 1st book in the Top 100 doesn’t even show up at all in our original search results. Of the Top 5 the highest price is $14.99 and the lowest is $0.99. The highest number of reviews is 4,017 and the lowest is 78.
– Top 100 Free: Once again, none of the books we saw in our original search are showing up in the Top 100 Free, not a single one. The highest number of reviews here are 214 in the top 5 and the lowest is 32, which just happens to be the number the 1st book has.
Top 100 Paid
Top 100 Free
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Take Away
There are a lot of contradictory results here! Some books are showing up where you wouldn’t expect them and others aren’t showing up where you would.
There are a few things you can take away from the way that Amazon now lists their books. Some of them may make it easier for you to sell your own books, and some might make it difficult.
– Cover: Your cover is now more critically important than ever. When a customer does an initial search they’ll be presented with 3 things: your cover, your title, and your price. If they’re interested in one of those they’ll hover their mouse over the cover image, which will show them the number of reviews you get. Of all the things that you can do to sell your book, I think the cover is now the most important based on how the search results are now shown.
– Reviews for You: Reviews aren’t as important from a reader perspective, at first. You see, customers won’t see those reviews unless they hover over your book. If they do that they’ll see, but the cover will be the only thing to make them do that. Well, your title could pull them in too, but I don’t think it happens as often.
– Reviews for Amazon: Reviews are critically important as far as Amazon is concerned. If you don’t have any reviews, an average of at least 356 according to our analysis, you won’t even be showing up on that first page of 60 books. If you have no reviews you’ll be pushed back to page 7 at the least, and probably much further back than that.
– Price: Your price is important, although not that critical. The book with the highest number of reviews in our Fantasy
search also had the highest price. Books priced at $0.00 were getting onto that first page of 60 results more than books that you paid for were. In fact, nearly 80% of those first 60 books were free!
– Title: Your title is important, as it’s one of the first 3 things that readers will see besides your cover and price. It’s probably most important for how it looks on your book’s cover, however.
Hopefully this analysis gives people a little bit to think about when it comes to choosing a cover, price, and title. There are many ways to sell books on Amazon, but if you study how the top books are selling, and why they’re coming up first in the search results, you’ll be in a much better position to sell your own books.
3: Amazon KDP Publishing: Choosing the Right Keywords, Categories and Price
I’m happy to announce that I have a new eBook out today called Tarot Card Killer. This is my 18th book selling on Amazon and my 7th novel. This book is also the book that I wrote for NaNoWriMo. Overall I’m quite proud of it.
So what is Tarot Card Killer?
Well, if you’ve visited this site at all in the past month I’m sure you’ve heard about the book. I wrote about the Tarot book cover, gave an excerpt of the book, and now here I am pushing it again.
Let me tell you right now, this will be the last time I do a post on this book all year!
Amazon Blurb
Writing a blurb for Amazon isn’t the easiest thing. I usually don’t get around to it until I’m on the publishing screen. Then I hastily hobble something together and slap it on there. This is what I came up with this time:
Jim Sharpe is sick of life, sick of being a cop, and most of all, sick of Hong Kong. He’s one of the few not taking bribes, yet he’s the one being charged with corruption. By the end of the week he’ll be kicked off the force – no matter what.
All that changes when a dead body’s found next to Victoria Harbour, a bloody Tarot card in its hand. Jim’s called onto the case, and what he discovers promises not just to upend his world, but the whole city as well.
With harrowing shootouts on the streets of Hong Kong Island, action-packed car chases down The Peak, and plenty of Tarot card mumbo-jumbo, you know this hard-boiled and international detective novel will take you to the edge of your seat.
Experience what readers everywhere will soon be talking about – Tarot Card Killer! So what are you waiting for? Draw your first card today!
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Alright, that’s actually a touched-up version that I fixed just now and plan to copy/past over my older, not-as-good blurb.
So is that it? I mean, many users come to this site to read about publishing and some Amazon secrets. They don’t read my books and don’t really give a damn about them, honestly.
Well, here are the tips and tricks I employed while on the Amazon publishing screen.
Amazon Categories
This was a tough book to figure out. When you publish a book on Amazon you get 2 categories. These are what people will see you in if your book gets into a ‘Top 100’ list. For Tarot Card Killer I chose Mystery, Thriller and Suspense – Hard-Boiled. I figure this book is a lot like some of those older ‘50s detective novels so it seemed a good fit.
My next pick was a non-fiction category, Mind, Body & Spirit – Divination – Tarot. Yeah, well, I figure a lot of people looking in the Tarot category would be interested in this book.
Also, if I sell just a few copies I’m almost guaranteed to get a spot on that ‘Top 100’ list, increasing my visibility. After all, when I’ve been #1 in Tarot before I had a rank of about #15,000 or so. That’s just a few sales a day.
I’ll leave it there for a month or so and then see how it does with another Mystery category.
Amazon Keywords
The thing you have to remember about categories is that you shouldn’t be too disappointed if you can’t get all the ones you want. I would have loved to choose about 5 more categories, like Police Procedurals and International Detectives, but I only had those 2.
Thing is, Amazon gives you 7 keywords you can use. These are the words people type into the search bar when they go to Amazon. What I did was typed in all those categories I didn’t get, like Procedurals and International. Often you don’t even need to type the whole word in if you know what Amazon wants. And they tell you in the Amazon Keywords Guidelines.
Amazon Price
I think the best thing an author can do when they release a new book is to put the price really high or put it really low.
First, really high means you can get some cash for those first initial sales. If you have fans they probably want to read your new book. If it’s the next in a series you know people will need to read it.
Charging more is something that’s good, and that you should do for a few weeks or a month. I put the price of Tarot Card Killer at $4.99, making it my most expensive novel (the others are $3.99). So when will I lower it? Ha! Wouldn’t you like to know!
Now how about a low price? Well, what if I put that book at $0.99? I’d probably see more sales right out of the gate, that is of course if I’m promoting it.
For this book I’m not promoting it. I’ve got about 4 to 5 releases planned for this month and I just don’t have the money to do covers and advertising. This month my new titles will be my advertising.
Amazon Post-Publishing Blues
Well, that’s it. I’m done. I always feel a little bummed-out when I publish a new title on Amazon, something I seem to do every few weeks now. I should probably take a break. And don’t forget that I write for other people too, sometimes books even. You can read all about that in Adventures in SEO.
4: Amazon Author Rank and Tracking Your Self-Publishing Performance
If you’re publishing on Amazon you should really be using Author Central. There you can track your books quickly, see your reviews, and look at a nice graph of your sales over time.
Well, it’s not so much sales as what those sales mean for you. See, each author on Amazon has a rank. This depends on how many books they sell, and you can see a list of the most successful Amazon authors right here.
Suffice it to say, I’m not on that list.
Will I ever be? Well, judging by how my own Amazon author rank has been bouncing around lately, I’d say no.
But of course anything can happen, so why don’t we sit down and look at my graphs so you can pick up a few things about yours.
My Current Amazon Author Rank
Right now, on March 19 or so, I’m ranked about #94,412. That’s not really where I want to be, but as you can see from this graph, it’s certainly a lot better than I’ve been before.
There’s a lot of information in this graph here. You can see that it looks pretty much like someone’s EKG or whatever in the hospital. Sometimes mine even looks like a real bad heart attack, or an earthquake, or even both at the same time.
My Highest Amazon Author Rank
Of course I’ve had my high moments. As you can see from this next graph, I was once #16,281.
Yeah, that was back in October, shortly after I released Sell Your Book, which really racked up some sales and some reviews quickly.
Oh yeah, reviews have an effect on your author rank. If you see your rank go up but you haven’t had any sales recently, well, chances are you got a review. And as far as I can tell, even bad reviews give you a boost! I...am...set!
My Lowest Author Rank
I can’t ride the high waves of success forever, and I’ve had my dark moments. Take June 7, 2013. This would be your typical VH1 hitting-bottom moment.
Any Joe on the street will tell you right away that I’d been on a downward spiral for some time. Day after day, week after week, that train was going one way and one way only – down.
So how did I live through it? I don’t know. Honestly, I’m not sure I even noticed at the time, although I probably did and was flipping out. Perhaps I’ve just blocked those painful memories out of my mind for good.
But then look what happened the next day. I shot all the way up to #124,687. What happened? Probably just 3 to 4 sales, maybe even less!
Yeah, it doesn’t take a whole lot to move that needle. And a lot of those big spikes you see are small promos I did, or perhaps a new release that got a few sales. I think it was really just keeping titles coming out, Sell Your Book and my perma-free hitting in September, that all catapulted me up higher into the mid-levels there at the start of fall.
I had a good run, but then around Christmas I fell back down. Books were just not selling, and sales for January continued to fall. The trend continued on into February, and it’s been getting worse since.
You can see that pair of old man balls in this picture here, and that was the first time I dipped below #100,000 since October 5. I know many never get past #100,000 (it took me a long time to get up there) but for me it was a bit of a blow.
It’s tough when you’re doing just about everything right (new titles each month, series, perma-free, promotions, Facebook advertising, blogging, link-building, guest posting, SEO, offering advice, throwing tantrums) and you still go down.
And of course someone that knows nothing will write a book and it’ll shoot up the charts. As someone recently said, self-publishing really just comes down to luck.
Damn you luck! Give me the Muses and Fates any day!
Well, what can you do? I guess I’ll try to put some more books out and hope they do better than the 30 I already have.
Remember, I’m really trying to get up to around $500 each month in royalties so I can pay my rent, although I’d really need $665 to do that. Well, maybe next month.
Update
A few months after I first wrote this piece and put it on my blog, I suffered a monumental drop in author rank. Take a look:
Now, the day before that I was hovering at #71,022. Some kind of internal adjustment must have happened at Amazon, for it really screwed things up.
The next day I was back up to #99,414...but for the next year I had to look at this huge drop if I put my Author Rank on the 1-year view. Talk about depressing, huh?
Well, it did climb back up. Imagine if it’d stayed down there? That’s agony.
5: How Much Will I Get Paid From Amazon?
A lot of you are struggling authors just like myself, and some of you are even doing alright. Some of you might be through the fucking roof, and some of you might have fallen through the floor a long time ago. But all of you are expecting a paycheck from Amazon this month...right?
It’s hard to tell sometimes, especially if you’re just starting out as a self-published author, what Amazon will pay you. And that’s why I’d like to take a look at my Amazon spreadsheet today so you can get some tips and tricks for figuring out what Amazon pays you as an author.
First, you’ll need to go to this main screen of your Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) Account:
I’ve circled what you need, and first you go to Reports, then click on Prior Months’ Royalties, and then on the report you want.
A good thing to remember is that new reports come out on the 15th of each month, meaning you’ll be able to figure out your paycheck on that day.
Also, remember that the report you’re looking at tells you what you’ll be
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