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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 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 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 LK Gardner-Griffie on September 22, 2008
Most of us have things in our lives that we can obsess on. In fact, ask any teenage girl and she’ll immediately tell you that her nose it too big or too small, she has too many freckles or not enough, that her eyebrows are too thin or too bushy; the possible list is endless. We can spend hours agonizing and obsessing over features that the rest of the world doesn’t even notice.
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By Shannon Yarbrough on June 25, 2008
For those who have been reading my escapades in Lulu publishing under the POD Diary tab, or for those here for the first time, go check out my recent posts concerning the quality of a dozen copies of my book which arrived yesterday.
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