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IndieBy John Brown
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• I picked up this book for a little light reading over Christmas break and couldn't put it down.” –Live Great
• “My gosh what a story. I was on the edge of my seat the whole book and exhausted by the time it was over. Absolutely loved it even though I need a nap now.” —Judy Glover
• “Couldn't put it down and almost read straight thru” — Mona Talbot
• “I could not put it down.” — Alan J Anderson
• “Very well written fast moving and hard to put down” — Amazon Customer
• “Riveting I did not put it down until finished” — Amazon Customer
• “Couldn't put it down. Great story!” — Kindle Customer
• “Very well written. Realistic I could not put the Kindle down” — Shorn
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• “It was very difficult to put the book down.” —Amazon customer• “You'd best find a comfortable chair when you start because you won't get
up until you're finished.” —Seven Shinall• “I read in two days because couldnt put it down” —Olga Platt• “I could hardly wait to go to the next page.” —Edie English• “Could not put this book or "Bad Penny" down. Well worth the lost sleep”
—Carolyn• “Damn you John Brown. The last half of this book was so good that I stayed
up until midnight last night to finish it when I had to be up at 0400 this morning” —Ian M.
• “I had trouble putting it down.”• “This truly is a book that I couldn't put down (much to my wife's
displeasure” —Dwight Diedricht
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Over 66%
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The mathPublisher
• Paperback• 8% first 150,000• 10% rest
• eBook• 17.5%
• Hardback• 10% first 5,000 • 12.5% next 5,000• 15% rest
Indie• 70% of sales price
Method Price $1,000Pub Paperback $10.00 1,250Pub eBook $10.00 571Pub Hardback $25.00 400Indie eBook $2.99 500Indie eBook $3.99 364Indie eBook $4.99 290
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Tips1. Focus on the readers you want to serve. Nothing else matters. 2.3.4.5.
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This is a Business
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Show up dressedfor the right game
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Delivering a product or
service some other
human wants
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Customer
Solution Want
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Tips1. Focus on the readers you want to serve. Nothing else matters. 2. Know what business you’re in – giving a guided experience3.4.5.
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Owner
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Tips1. Focus on the readers you want to serve. Nothing else matters. 2. Know what business you’re in – giving a guided experience3. Know your role – owner4.5.
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3 Things1. Production 2. Distribution 3. Marketing
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Tips1. Focus on the readers you want to serve. Nothing else matters. 2. Know what business you’re in – giving a guided experience3. Know your role – owner4. Get good at three things: production, delivery, marketing5.
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Tips1. Focus on the readers you want to serve. Nothing else matters. 2. Know what business you’re in – giving a guided experience3. Know your role – owner4. Get good at three things: production, delivery, marketing5. There are no guarantees, but doing the above will increase your
odds
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Production1. Learn what they want2. Develop and write the story experience3. Test4. Edit5. Format
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Select a target“No matter who the writer, his ideal intended audience is only a small fraction of all the living readers. Name the most widely read authors you can think of–from Shakespeare, Austen, and Dickens to Robert Waller, Stephen King, and J.K. Rowling–and the immense majority of book-buyers out there actively decline to read them.”
(Thomas McCormack, former CEO and editorial director of St. Martin’s Press, The Fiction Editor, The Novel, and the Novelist, p8)
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Pinpoint audience taste“The thing Character wants, the danger that threatens fulfillment of this desire, and the decision he makes, determine what specific readers will enjoy the story. One likes sex and violence, another tenderness and love, another the competitive striving for success, another intellectual stimulation. Relatively few college professors are Tarzan fans–and even fewer sharecroppers succumb to Finnegans Wake. The trick, for the writer, is merely to pinpoint audience taste…then to refrain from attempting to inflect his copy on the wrong people.” (Dwight V. Swain, Techniques of the Selling Writer, p137)
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Learn what they want• 3 to 10 exemplars• The genre experience
• Must-have moments and experiences• Beginnings, endings, setting, pace• Characters• Types of story problems (THOM)
• You are the first reader• A genre you love• Same but different• Your mix• Rule of cool
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Develop and write the story experience•The story you write trumps the story in your head
•Series•Shorter is okay
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Test and Edit it•3,000 words•Wise readers•Copy editor
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FormateBooks
Vellum, Calibre, Hire it out
PaperVellum, InDesign, Amazon, Hire it out
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Distribution1. Amazon (print too)2. iTunes3. Barnes&Noble (print too)4. Kobo (includes Wal-mart)5. Google Play6. Audible (audio)7. Draft2Digital (includes others)8. Your own website
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Marketing1. Attract attention2. Make offer3. Call to action
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Marketing methods•Big 5 – your offer•At point of sale•Targeted advertising•Direct connection•Author groups
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• Cover• Tagline• Description• Proof
• Blurbs• Reviews• Sample
• Price
The Big 5 (your offer)
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• Key words• Categories
The goal is to make it easy to find and search
At point of sale
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• Amazon Marketing Services ads• Bookbub et al• Kobo promotions• Barnes&Noble promotions• Facebook ads
The goal is to entice them to click to store
Targeted advertising
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• Email list• Website• Front matter• Back matter
The goal is to entice them to click to store or join list
Direct connection
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• Anthologies• Cross-promotion• Joint series
The goal is to entice them to click to store
Author groups
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All roads lead to a sales pageAMS adsBookbub
Facebook ads
Newsletter*
Back matter
Joint series
Anthologies
WebsiteBookgorilla
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Annie Bellet
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L.L. Muir
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L.L. Muir
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What we’re learning1. Select a genre2. Deliver the desired awesome for your genre3. Deliver often4. Deliver it in a series5. Price right for your genre6. Get great covers for that genre7. Write great description8. Market intelligently9. Build your email list of fans
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get inhave fun
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Next stepsDownload and review this presentation
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Learn hows of indie publishingLet’s Get Digital by David Gaughran (3rd edition)Write to Market by Chris FoxBecome a Successful Indie Author by Craig MartelleThe Copyright Handbook by Stephen Fishman
Learn about traditional publishing contractsKristine Rusch: contracts and dealbreakersKirsch’s Guide to the Book Contract by Jonathan Kirsch
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Go forth and kick butt
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The ex-conThe accountantAnd the woman in the trunk
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Limerick: LynnThere was a young lady of Lynn,Who was so uncommonly thin,That when she assayedTo drink lemonadeShe slipped through the straw and fell in.
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Limerick: FerrisThere once was a lady named FerrisWhom nothing could ever embarrass.'Til the bath salts one day, in the tub where she lay, turned out to be Plaster of Paris.
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Limerick: MaxAn amoeba, named Max, and his brotherWere sharing a drink with each other;In the midst of their quaffing,They split themselves laughing, And each of them now is a mother.
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Limerick: NatchezThere was a young belle of old NatchezWhose garments were always in patchez.When comments aroseOn the state of her clothes,She replied, "When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez."
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Limerick: PainterA painter, who lived in Great Britain,Interrupted two girls with their knittin'He said, with a sigh,"That park bench--well IJust painted it, right where you're sittin.'"
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Limerick: DwightThere once was a runner named DwightWho could speed much faster than light.He set out one day In a relative wayAnd returned on the previous night.
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Limerick: KentThere was a young lady of Kent,Whose nose was most awfully bent.She followed her noseOne day, I suppose --And no one knows which way she went.
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Amazon all the while has managed to take almost 50 percent of new book sales, according to Codex Group, a book audience research firm…
"This is a very fragile industry now," Codex Group CEO Peter Hildick-Smith said. "Our data is suggesting a lot of the books business today is behind the Amazon curtain." He said more than two-thirds of all books sold on a unit basis are now transacted online.
(“This holiday season could seal Barnes & Noble's fate as the bookseller considers selling itself”, 10/13/18, CNBC.com)
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Number of bookstores in the United States from 2004 to 2018
The number of books published annually has increased by around 1,000% in the last decade while the number of bookstores in the United States has shrunk by 31%.
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Online sales exceeded physical retail revenue for US book publishers in 2013
https://www.geekwire.com/2014/online-book-sales-physical-stores/
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Online vs. in-store shopping preferences of consumers in the United States as of February 2017, by product category
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevendennis/2018/04/09/e-commerce-fake-news-the-only-10-fallacy/#51228a5d39b4
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Book store sales in the United States from 1992 to 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)
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Number of Barnes & Noble stores from fiscal year 2005 to fiscal year 2018
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50% more sales
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Doubled sales
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Tripled sales
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Learn by doing“Many crummy trials beat deep thinking”
~ BJ Fogg