Episode 105 – Long Days, High Prices, and Doing It All

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Question of the Week: How would you be willing to change your life to sell two million ebooks? Could you stand the 14-hour days? Why or why not?

Back from rainy Austin, Bryan and Jim beamed about their fun and educational experience at the Smarter Artist Summit. After thanking their latest patron Jamie Arpin-Ricci and his book The Last Verdict (available at http://bit.ly/lastverd ), the troublesome honorary texans took on tips about free books, niching down, and using short stories in anthologies. News stories included $27 ebooks, YA superhero books, doing it all, using genre-specific covers, providing ebooks to the masses, and putting in 14 hour days. This week’s Question of the Week: How would you be willing to change your life to sell two million ebooks? Could you stand the 14-hour days? Why or why not?
What You’ll Learn: 
  • What Jim and Bryan thought about the Smarter Artist Summit
  • Why free books still work for a series
  • How to target readers more effectively
  • What you should do with short stories
  • Why a $27 ebook won’t fly with readers in any genre
  • How trad pub is trying to create a high-flying YA bestseller
  • Why you actually haven’t tried everything
  • How important it is to put the right cover on your book
  • Why a free government ebook project may not get the job done
  • What it really takes to sell two million books
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Question of the Week: How would you be willing to change your life to sell two million ebooks? Could you stand the 14-hour days? Why or why not?

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