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Spin-off Beatrix Rose. In addition, he’s written several ‘Soho Noir' novels. Mark’s breakthrough came when he developed a marketing strategy for promoting and selling his books. His swift success enabled him to quit his 9 to 5 job and he has generated gross revenues of more than a million dollars in less than five years. Mark has become a leading voice in the self publishing industry and he advocates and teaches a strategy based around offering books for free, mailing list development and social media advertising. In 2015, he published the first version of what is now his acclaimed online course ‘Advertising for Authors’. He has also developed a course for writers at the start of their careers – Self Publishing 101.James Blatch co-hosts the podcast and he represents the first time, wannabe author. James is a former BBC News journalist who is currently writing his first novel.Between them James and Mark explore the world of self publishing with a focus on actionable tips for new and experienced indie authors. Creator Mark Dawson Years Active 2016 - 2024 Episodes 431 Rating Clean Copyright © The Self Publishing Formula Ltd. 2016 - 23 Show Website The Self Publishing Show

Mark has such great tools and experts on to support self-published authors with getting their work out to the world! A must listen for anyone looking to self-publish and put their books into the world. Congratulations Mark and James on 400 episodes. Thanks for the information and laughs. Here’s to at least 400 more!! I have only listened to a few episodes so far and have already gained tips. Thank you for doing this.I love this Podcast. I get so excited listening when I am driving my speed increases. I have to make sure cruise control is set so I don’t get a ticket. I hope to increase my indie presence and increase sales. I am sure your knowledge will help expand my knowledge. I am a fairly new author and have so much to learn. Mark and James are great hosts and interviewers passionate about writing and self-publishing. From the first episode I listened to, I was hooked. If you want to believe you can be a writer and learn the skills and insight to do so, this is a great podcast. But wait, isn't this a self-publishing podcast? Icing on the cake. It does the same for that part of the process as well. If you want the encouragement and courage to fulfill your writing dream, listen to The Self-Publishing Show. Mark Dawson is a best selling self-published author on multiple platforms including Amazon and Kobo. He is the author of the John Milton thriller series and its

EPISODE TRANSCRIPTMark Dawson: I’m Mark Dawson from The Self Publishing Show and this is Self Publishing Spotlight, where we shine a light on the indie authors who are changing the world of publishing one book at a time.Tom Ashford: Hello and welcome to the Self Publishing Spotlight. We meet indie authors at all stages of their careers and ask them a series of five questions. Five questions about their process, their mistakes, and their successes. Five answers that will help you level up your own author career. My name is Tom Ashford, and I’m part of the self publishing formula. Don’t forget that you can get your self publishing resource kit at selfpublishingformula.com/starterkit. This week’s guest is Roseanne Cheng. She’s written four books in the middle-grade fiction and nonfiction genres, and she lives in Minnesota. Welcome, Rosanne.Roseanne Cheng: So great to be here. Thank you for having me.Tom Ashford: Not a problem. It’s great to have you on. Do you want to talk a little bit, maybe about your middle-grade fiction and nonfiction books?Roseanne Cheng: Sure, yeah. I have a strange writing journey myself, and it’s kind of taken me on different paths. It all started with middle-grade fiction. I was a teacher for seven years, and I just had this book idea in my head. I really wanted to write a book that I wanted to teach in the classroom, meaning I would have something that would spark a lot of conversations. The chapters would be perfect homework-length chapters. I would have just the right amount of vocabulary sprinkled in there, essential questions, so all the things that a teacher kind of looks for when they’re just using literature to teach in the classroom. I wrote my first book, which is called The Take Back of Lincoln Junior High, and it’s about a middle school, a junior high school that takes corporate sponsors over federal funding. And I really just wanted to spark a conversation with kids about what money does buy and what it doesn’t buy in education.I wrote that book. I created kind of a teacher’s guide in the back for it. I did a lot of visits to classrooms and talking to teachers and students about how to use the book in their classroom. That one inspired my second book, which is called Edge The Bare Garden, and that one is also a middle-grade fiction book about digital citizenship, another topic I liked to discuss in the classroom. What happened after I published those two books and went through all the marketing for it and really enjoyed the process is, I had just created this really close relationship with my publishers. I went through an indie hybrid publisher here locally in Minneapolis called Wise Ink Creative Publishing, and I got so close with those people who were helping me bring my books to life, that I decided that I really wanted to work with them and help other authors do the same thing that I was

Authors release anything book related, you'll be among the first to know. This isn't just new releases either. You'll be notified whenever their books are on promotion, pre-order, or anything else. BookBub offers one of the best ways outside of the author's personal pages to keep you notified. Get Book Recommendations from People You Trust Most Ever get stuck trying to figure out your next read? Sometimes, all you need is a good recommendation. And while Aunt Myrtle may make a mean banana pudding, you might want to avoid her dedication to Harlequin Romance novels. That's why BookBub's made it easy for you to get the recommendations of those who may share similar tastes in books. You have the option to see the recommendations of all your friends, family, or book club members (provided they've set up an a BookBub account). You also have the option of seeing what the BookBub editors suggest and even your favorite authors! If you're an avid reader, I'd highly suggest that you get involved with BookBub. BookBub Review for Authors: What can BookBub do for me? After seeing what BookBub can do for readers, this has got to be awesome for the authors behind their recommendations, right? And that's absolutely true. BookBub offers a second-to-none premium book promotion service for those interested. As a matter of fact, USA Today best-selling author and creator of The Self-Publishing Formula Mark Dawson has this to say about BookBub: “BookBub is the gold standard when it comes to finding new readers, and they provide some of the best author resources in the business…” And when he says it's the gold standard, I wholeheartedly agree. Let's review the ways that BookBub goes above and beyond the call of duty when it comes to handling your book promotion–both pre-order and

If you’re a seasoned indie author, there’s a chance that you’ve already used Amazon to create ads to help sell more eBooks. However, if you’re new to the writing and self-publishing game, the world of Amazon ads for authors might be totally unfamiliar to you. As the largest platform in the world for purchasing and publishing eBooks, Amazon holds a huge amount of power. Through your Kindle Direct Publishing account, you’re able to harness that power for your own benefit. (Curious how to start selling books through KDP? Check out our article on self-publishing with Amazon here).As a self-publisher on KDP, something you may have asked yourself is probably…What is the best way to promote a Kindle book?We think one of the best ways to start bringing in book sales is through advertisements, and Amazon offers some powerful ad tools. Of course, Amazon’s advertising and marketing services need a fair bit of explanation and understanding before they should be used. Becoming adept in Amazon Advertising can be greatly beneficial to the future of your book sales.Helpful tip – Before we continue, we want to explain something about Amazon’s ad platform. As Amazon Marketing Services underwent a rebranding in September 2018, the entire site was renamed “Amazon Advertising”. However, AMS and Amazon Advertising are the same site. With rebranding, though, comes change. As explained on Jane Friedman’s website (with a helpful guest post written by Dave Chesson), these recent changes resulted in new ad types and updates to the advertising dashboard. In case you were a former user of Amazon Marketing Services who has just recently returned to the site, be sure to keep this in mind. We want to be transparent with you – getting familiar with Amazon Advertising will take time and practice, and authors get mixed results. Looking for an in-depth video course on this specific subject? We recommend Mark Dawson’s Self-Publishing Formula. Mark offers a course that’s specifically focused on how to set up and optimize Amazon ads for authors, which you can access here.For a written guide on Amazon ads for authors, we encourage you to keep reading for Written Word Media’s very own how-to post. Not only will this blog post explain what Amazon Advertising is, but it will also give you tips on successful strategies for this ad platform and provide you with a detailed walkthrough of the website. Since Written Word Media runs Amazon ads of our own, we’ve been able to compile information on what’s been successful for us. We hope that our results will prove to be helpful to you, too. So sit down, get comfy, and prepare yourself for the world of Amazon Marketing Services! If you’d like to skip