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 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 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 February 28, 2009
I received $16.91 deposited today from Amazon, but this is not from Kindle sales. This is actually from Associate sales where people purchased my book through special links which I provided. I highly advise that you sign up for the Amazon Associates program because it’s like getting paid twice for your book. You’ll earn a commission from every thing they buy through the Amazon link, and you’ll also earn a royalty through Lulu for the distribution sales of your book. To join, scroll all the way to the bottom of any page on Amazon and click on Join Associates. They provide different tools to create your own bookstores, product links, etc.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on November 13, 2008
Many of us are still boycotting Amazon due to the huge Booksurge/POD war that has been taking place this year. Many of us have moved forward and tried to find other venues for selling our books outside of Amazon. I hope it’s paying off for those of you out there pounding the pavement.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on October 22, 2008
Loyal readers may notice The POD Diary tab has been removed from the top of the page. This is a detailed journal I’ve been keeping since earlier this year concerning my own recent self-publishing journey. If you have enjoyed the journal, don’t worry. It’s not gone completely. You can still find it under the list of Pages on the left column of the blog.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on September 27, 2008
Mark Long of the TSTC Publishing’s Book Business Blog has written a very detailed article about my POD Diary. He calls it “the absolutely epic saga—equally fascinating and heartwrenching—of Shannon Yarbrough self publishing his novel Stealing Wishes through an online POD publisher.” Wow! What a compliment!
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By Shannon Yarbrough on May 31, 2008
It’s hard to believe that this is the end of May, the third month since I started the Lulu Book Review site. The support of this site and the number of visitors to it has been overwhelming, reaching over 4,000 on the counter so far. Thanks to all the loyal readers, and to the wonderful authors we’ve discovered and reviewed because of it.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on May 11, 2008
May 10th and 11th: So here we are. I’m still revising the inside, checking for errors, and marking up the sample copy with my red ink pens. I’ve read all of POD People and have begin looking into Jeremy’s suggestions for book cover help. Jeremy suggests a program called Gimp. I downloaded it for free and began toying around with it, but I didn’t find any options that were better than what I could do with Paint.
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