I strongly adhere to @NickColeBooks advice on getting the right also boughts and targeting the right people to help promote your book, same genre readers etc. You want amazon to do the work for you as much as possible.
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Replying to @David_JWest @TheCleftonTwain and
Trading email lists with authors in the same category/genre? That makes sense. Any tips on working with people on that, or is it as simple as finding where your book belongs and asking them for help/trades?
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Replying to @joshuadorne @David_JWest and
You want to find the big indie sellers in your genre, what Jason Anspach & Nick Cole call "the Dons". Approach the Dons & offer to promote their books to your mailing list if they'll promote your book on theirs.
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Replying to @BrianNiemeier @joshuadorne and
Fascinating. Is genre construed widely ("science fiction") or narrowly ("hard science libertarian SF"?)
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Replying to @MorlockP @joshuadorne and
You go by Amazon categories. Example: Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Colonization
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Replying to @MorlockP @BrianNiemeier and
BTW, some of the categories can't be selected through the KDP interface. In some cases you can find a more obscure (less competitive) category and email support to add your book to it.
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Replying to @robkroese @MorlockP and
True! I’m doing it with my latest.pic.twitter.com/dlVqctLtnW
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Replying to @David_JWest @robkroese and
"Trade email plugs with other authors" Me: looks at CC list on this thread...
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Replying to @MorlockP @robkroese and
Nothing, just want to have the right book with the right readers and not cross the streams.pic.twitter.com/9TISpWlhje
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Yeah, need to flip through each other's catalogs, see what looks like a match, read it to make sure... Not at all trivial...but worth doing!
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Replying to @MorlockP @robkroese and
It’s a question of the general reading audience not usually crossing genres. So fantasy for fantasy and science fi for sci fi and even more narrowed down if possible.
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Replying to @David_JWest @robkroese and
Yep. And style. If I've got hard SF and someone else writes space-prince-and-princess... We're in full agreement.
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