By Shannon Yarbrough on December 10, 2010
It’s been exactly one month since the release of my third book, Are You Sitting Down?.
December 1st marked the end of my month long give away over at GoodReads which I discussed in my last post. 974 people entered the contest to win one of the 5 copies I was giving away. And 159 people have added the book to their “to read” list. After the contest ended, I even received an email through GoodReads from another reader who was sad she didn’t win, and asked politely if I could spare another copy.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on November 17, 2010
Last week I reintroduced my POD Diary with a post about beginning book marketing for my most recent book, Are You Sitting Down?. Here’s a recap of how the first week went down:
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By Shannon Yarbrough on November 12, 2010
June 8, 2009 was when I wrapped up my POD Diary here on LLBR, an online account of my journey into formatting, publishing, marketing, and selling my 2nd book, Stealing Wishes pretty much from the start to the end of the first year of the book being in print.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on May 24, 2010
In March 2009, I began writing an article for LLBR about how to market your book on Amazon. The result of that article turned into a longer project that I decided to publish as a small book. Taking advantage of Lulu’s free ISBN at the time, I released it as a 93 page guide that included my POD Diary which I wrote throughout the first year of marketing my book, Stealing Wishes.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on June 8, 2009
What can I say? It’s been a great year for me as an author and for my book, Stealing Wishes. As many know, I’ve documented my publishing journey over the past year here as the POD Diary. From pulling my hair out while creating my own book cover over a year ago to recording every [...]
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By Shannon Yarbrough on June 6, 2009
Like many of you, I’ve been patiently waiting to receive my March royalties I earned from Kindle sales. March proved to be one of the biggest months for authors as far as earnings are concerned due to the release of the Kindle 2. For those who may have missed this bit of information from my previous posts and are wondering why I said March, Amazon.com pays you 60 days after the end of a month,which is why we are just now getting paid our March royalties.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on May 25, 2009
Today, like every day, I checked my Amazon.com sales rank and discovered it had bumped up quite a bit. I’m now at 101,491. Now as I’ve discussed in the past, this might very well mean I’ve sold just one copy over the weekend, or even up to 5 copies. And chances are the rank will fall fast unless another copy sells today.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on May 15, 2009
The full version of Cheryl Anne Gardner’s review was posted on PodPeep today.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on May 13, 2009
Cheryl Anne Gardner from Podpeep reviewed Stealing Wishes and loved it.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on April 30, 2009
I don’t know why I never got this done earlier, but the Search Inside feature got added to my book today on Amazon. I’ve always been a big advocate of this option, but honestly could never figure out how to do it myself.
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