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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Replying to @David_JWest @robkroese and
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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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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