If you ever hop onto your favorite author’s social media, you may notice a pattern. Page flips. Spicy excerpts. Story times. Gorgeous color schemed posts on Instagram that create a pleasing palette of three colors or even sparkles. Or, in my case, esthetically pleasing picture ads I’ve made on Book Brush. Thirst Trap Duets. Other (fill in the blank with crayon). Branding, is what the experts...
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As the societal tides have turned since the pandemic in 2020, most businesses have disposed of paper materials like menus, handouts, flyers, and pamphlets. They replaced those physical items with QR codes linking to a landing page with the same information. That means as an author, you can confidently assume your readers— although they might not know the name “QR code”— definitely have knowledge...
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In today’s publishing landscape, authors must develop and implement an effective marketing strategy for every book launch. Finding strategies that work, identifying the ones that don’t, then making necessary adjustments for the next launch will help get your books in front of your ideal readers. Every time I launch a book, I learn something new about marketing. I’ve also made plenty of mistakes...
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There’s a popular theory in the indie publishing world that only sexy books sell. Well, that’s not true for me. I have tried writing in New Adult, a genre that allows you more freedoms than Young Adult because of the age of the characters, but they don’t sell anything compared to my YA books do. I have also heard other authors say their YA books don’t sell as many copies as their New adult or...
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