An intense week of going backward to move forward - revising an old anthology to start posting it to Wattpad. Outstanding improvement by linking all these books together by content. Proves the short story writing-publishing paradigm. The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 19 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 66/199 (Actual vs. Reported: 50%) StoryOrigins: 0 Overall Total: 3597 (Yet again came up some...) Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 0, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 97111, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 1374, Else: 0 (Medium) – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Books Books updated: Total: 14 more single books, plus 1 anthology (leaving approximately 66 fiction to go and uncounted non-fiction … [Read more...]
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 10 Results
Catching up on things. The four handwritten notes kicked my butt seriously this week. Those again forced a review of my branding, goals, and scope. Content Inc book again reared its head as completely invaluable for author-preneurs. Hope you like this new format - seems it's easier for Google excerpts and the RSS feed... The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 10 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 374 StoryOrigins: 1 Overall Total: 3843 Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 0, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 7323, Else: 0 (Medum) – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Books Books (pre-)published: None Books In Progress: 0 Book sales this week: Draft2Digital – 11, … [Read more...]
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 09 Results
Sorting out my brand. Simplifying the massive updates I have to do across all my books. And working up a uniform newsletter format to tell people what is going on and what they can receive for being part of this. Main point is getting a working model actually running. Email coach has been a great help by enforcing this evolution and streamlining... The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 09 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 331 StoryOrigins: 1 Overall Total: 3927 Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 0, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 6117, Else: 2393 (Medum) – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Books Books (pre-)published: None Books In Progress: 0 Book sales this … [Read more...]
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 07 Results
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 07 Results Three new non-fiction books published this week. Caught up in general. Letting IF/PW just go along. Lulu came in with a surprising sales of a $100 royalty off a single book (I sell like one a year of these.) Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 242 StoryOrigins: 3 Overall Total: 4053 Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 5987, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 1917, Else: 811 (Medum) – paid – Book Outlets: 250938, Medium: 0 Books Books (pre-)published: The Writer's Journey of John Earl Stark 02 How I Survived My First Year of Fiction Writing This Fiction Business – (H. Bedford-Jones re-publish) Learning from the Pulp Masters … [Read more...]
The Great Content Business Challenge: Publishing Premises
The Great Content Business Challenge: Publishing Premises references: Creative Penn - Trends for Authors 2019 Self Publishing Advice.org - A Look Back at 2018 Self Publishing 2019 Book Industry Predictions: The Butterflies Will Flap Their Wings The Premises of This Year's Challenge Last year, I worked on an Fiction Writing Challenge - and it was a great success. I produced far more content than I imagined I would, or predicted I would. Because I concentrated on building the habits of writing "Damn Good Books." And along the way, I had to study and throw away craft texts that didn't help me achieve that. Initially, it was started with a book called "How to Stop Feeding the Beast". That was based on escaping Amazon's algorithms through very different approaches to volume … [Read more...]
Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Mistakes and Opportunities
Great Fiction Writing Challenge - Mistakes and Opportunities Along with lessons learned, there are also "things I should have done differently." While a shorter list than all the gains and benefits, it's still a list that needs compiling. Wattpad & Medium: Build a free audience. At the start, I'd dug out of Chris Fox and other's books that you want to find the avid readers who will want your books and populate your "also-boughts" on Amazon with these type readers (different from your friends and family, who have different reading habits.) The approach I should have recognized is that this is an Amazon-centric approach and doesn't mean it will work for wide publishing (everywhere else.) Sure enough, Amazon in the U.S. has mostly done away with "also-bought" recommendations in … [Read more...]
