With Jim off running the Author Marketing Live Virtual event, Bryan welcomed author Robert Scanlon to the program. They discussed tips on Instagram, how to avoid getting sidetracked, and making an author comeback. Bryan and Robert chatted about news related to ebooks at indie bookstores, engagement analytics in fiction, spousal support for authors, the new Kindle Textbook Creator, and Dean Wesley Smith’s 10 reasons to avoid traditional publishing. This episode’s Question of the Week: If you had to make an author comeback, what are the three things you would focus on doing above anything else?
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What You’ll Learn:
- How you can use Instagram to gain a following
- Six ways that new authors get sidetracked
- What author Ben Wallace is doing to launch a comeback
- Why indie bookstores are losing ebook enthusiasm
- How fiction engagement analytics could affect traditional publishing
- What Bryan and Robert think of spousal financial support
- How Amazon is tapping into academia
- Dean Wesley Smith’s 10 reasons for avoiding traditional publishing
Links:
- The Split (Bryan and Robert’s podcast)
- Robert Scanlon’s Book Offer
- Insta-Authors
- Un-Sidetracked
- The Comeback
- Oil and Waterstones
- Fictitious Analytics
- Author Dollars and Cents
- Classroom Kindle (1)
- Classroom Kindle (2)
- 10 Reasons Why Not (1)
- 10 Reasons Why Not (2)
Question of the Week:
If you had to make an author comeback, what are the three things you would focus on doing above anything else?