Book Marketing

Kindle Direct Publishing: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/

Draft2Digital: https://www.draft2digital.com/ which puts it out on all the formats, iTunes, Kobo and formats and stores outside the US. They take 10% of your sales. That’s a pretty good deal. I haven’t used them but most people who have love them.

CHOOSING YOUR GENRE

Here are the top 100 categories (you will notice that romance title represent about 40% of book sales):

https://www.tckpublishing.com/competitive-amazon-kindle-bestseller-categories/

Here is the Kindle Direct Publishing page to choose your category: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200652170  You can choose three.

You literally have to include your subgenre keywords in your category: Here’s a link:

https://cslakin.teachable.com/courses/targeting-genre-for-big-sales/lectures/535137

TROPES = EXPECTATIONS Audience expectations will make or break your reviews and ratings.

You can learn the tropes of each of these genres with a little research. Here are some cozy mystery tropes:

https://www.kboards.com/index.php?topic=229241.25

COPY EDITING ON YOUR OWN:

https://prowritingaid.com/

https://www.autocrit.com/

https://www.grammarly.com/

Create a Facebook author page: https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/2017/01/27/how-to-create-a-facebook-author-page/

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