The Secret to Self Publishing
The secret is output. Quantity. You can't write/self publish one book and then sit back and wait. The marketplace is far too crowded now. You must write half a dozen books, pimp them on Twitter, Facebook, and BookBub, and "all the while" continue to write and pump out more books to subsequently pimp. Just ask Russell Blake. And get over the notion that you're uncomfortable with self promotion or with selling your work. There's absolutely nothing wrong with selling. If it helps, think of it as something you're excited about (your book) and sharing it with a friend, the same feeling you get when you and a friend are talking about what happened on Game of Thrones last night. Lack of sales of a professionally edited, well-written book with a professional cover has less to do with its quality and more to do with the fact that nobody knows about it. Why do you think production companies advertising new blockbuster movies have an advertising budget equa