Authors Electric

          Thanks to Katherine Roberts' earlier blog, I read John Locke’s book “ How I Sold 1 Million ebooks in 5 Months ”.           Praise to the Master.  John has given me confidence... the confidence to try social media.  Now I am Tweeting, I’ve joined Facebook, I renewed my efforts on Ecademy and will get around to Linked In etc.  I’m not very photogenic so you probably won’t see me on YouTube! Am I buzzing on Google Buzz yet?           Fancy me being in The Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England reaching out across the world.  Now I am not saying I understand what I am doing with all this, but that book has at least made me TRY!           I would thoroughly recommend Mr. Locke’s book as a good read even if you are not going to sell e-books...one of the things I think he says ...

Authors are not publishers for two good reasons. The first being that writing a decent book leaves very little creative energy or time for anything else. The second being that most of them haven’t a clue about marketing. Since my first e-book Spellfall has now been available for Kindle for five months, and my sales are still a bit shy (poetic licence) of 1 million, I thought I’d read John Locke’s book How I sold a million e-books in 5 months in the hope of picking up a few tips. This is a great book to get your hands on if you’re a marketing virgin like me, but it doesn’t claim to wave a magic wand. First of all, note that clever title " How I sold …" Not " How to sell …" or " How you can sell …" John Locke is not saying that reading his book will enable you to mimic his success, yet those sales did happen for him, and he shot to fame for being the first independently published author to sell a million e-books. This book gives an honest account of how h...