For seasoned self-publishers, getting ads to work on Bookbub is vital. These ads are fed to avid readers who buy regularly. But you have to get it right. Here are five things you can do if your ads aren’t getting a high click-through rating:
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When self-publishing, it is vital your book is comparable to traditionally-published books.
Why?
Because the reader is looking for a professional product. They don’t want to find mistakes (grammar, spelling), and they don’t want to feel they are buying something that only one person may have worked on. A traditional book is professionally proofread, copy-edited, final edited, and formatted. It is then given a professional cover and printed properly.
As a self-publisher, you must appear to be a professional. Therefore, the front material of your book should look similar, and provide the same info, as a traditionally published book.
This article from BookBaby has great info on what that should be and what it should look like. Click here.
Bookbaby’s president, Stephan Spatz has some great ideas about what you need to have in your author website:
Whether you’re building your author platform, hosting a blog, interacting with readers, or providing a behind-the-scenes look at your creative process, you need a home on the web — a hub for your online marketing activity. Over the last 10 years, I’ll bet there has not been a single successful author who didn’t have a great author website.
By Robert Morrow | October 22, 2019 | 0
Over 50 people came out to buy signed copies of author/publisher, Robert J. Morrow’s latest thriller, “The Security” at the Thirsty Cactus Cantina in Dundas, Ontario on Oct 17/19.
“Mingling with fans and new readers was exciting and fulfilling,” said Morrow. (Authors don’t get many opportunities to take center stage for a couple of hours). A simultaneously-scheduled Amazon promotion took the book to #2 on the Psychological Thrillers list on the evening of the launch, so a huge thanks to those from all over Canada, the US, and the UK for purchasing the ebook during the 72-hour promotion period.
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Only 4 days left to official launch of “The Security”, Publisher/Author Robert J. Morrow’s latest thriller. The story begins when a party boat sinks off the coast of Hilton Head Island. The reader is then taken on a journey to exotic Caribbean islands to meet determined characters, all with differing agendas. You won’t want to miss it!
For those who read on Kindle, there’s a special treat. You can order a FREE copy of The Security from Thanksgiving Monday to the night of the launch. Click here anytime after 1am Thanksgiving morning and you’ll be able to start the story ahead of everyone else! PM me to say you ordered and I’ll put your name in the draw for a Kindle Fire, to be held Wed night at 8pm at The Thirsty Cactus in Hamilton.
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The Sunao Publishing services are not free. And if you choose not to use our services, that’s fine; you don’t need to. But self-publishing yourself still isn’t free.
Should you decide to go it alone (as I did the first time), you need to be aware of some of the individual costs in order to accomplish your goal. It’s not that hard really, but you can’t skip any steps… really. Not if you want your book to sell.
This is an article from Reedsy, the all-knowing, all-helpful site for indie authors: click here
The following review was published in the June 2019 edition of the publishing world’s Bible: Publishers Weekly:
Robert J. Morrow. Sunao International, $15.99 trade paper (474p) ISBN 978-1-540363-23-7
A terrifyingly plausible premise elevates Morrow’s debut and series launch. A new technology, Broadband over Power Lines (BPL), promises to make cable and phone lines redundant by providing internet access at low cost to anyone with electricity. Unbeknownst to President Daniel Emerson, who wants to use BPL to send instant notifications during an emergency, Senator Andre Blais, whose Congressional committee has oversight over BPL, is in bed with the North Koreans, who are plotting to invade the U.S. The North Koreans plan to get access to the BPL system in order to send a destruct signal into America’s power grids. Blais believes that such an attack would “become the catalyst for him to put in place the safeguards necessary” to protect the country. Meanwhile, restauranteur Arthur “Artichoke” Hart, whose restaurant is “one of the CIA’s best equipped offsite meeting places,” is tapped to cater a demonstration of BPL to an international delegation in upstate New York, where, despite his lack of special skills, he ends up playing a key role in trying to foil the diabolical plot. Morrow keeps the action moving, and Hart is an entertaining lead well-positioned to sustain a series. Readers will look forward to his next outing. (BookLife)
Author Christine Ibbotson has been working the phones hard to get individual and small chain book stores to carry her “How to Retire Debt Free and Wealthy!”. It’s hard and time consuming but ultimately, the book is crawling its way across the province.
Congrats to our auther, Christine Ibbotson!
Where the adventures begin. Just started my next novel: “Breathe Easy”. Excerpts soon!
(author/publisher, Robert J. Morrow)
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