A month or so ago, my sister, Connie Walker (connieawalker.com), and I decided to take the week beginning June 20, 2016 and spend it learning how to market our books. We had, months ago, purchased a course called Publishing Profit System, which offered some special help in what it termed, Kindle Training.
Then we both got so busy that we didn’t even take the course. Connie continued writing books and I put my book-writing on hold and focused on piano: theory, technique, performance, and composition. No more books written, but helped composed the music for three piano books. See SHEET MUSIC.
Well, I have written eight books, five of which are in print, as you no doubt know from the BOOKS page of my website. But with all the focus on piano, I grossly neglected marketing the books I had already written.
This Kindle in 30 Challenge is a bonus which was recently added to the original course, and it is dynamite. It is a program designed by Kristen Joy, The Book Ninja, and assists an author through the process of writing, publishing, and marketing a Kindle book in 30 days.
As Connie and I got into the information, we each decided to pick a new book to write and to complete the process for it from writing through marketing. We felt it would be much more meaningful to roll up our sleeves and get down and dirty. That way, we will find producing each future book much easier – in fact learning and mastering this process just might help us write more books than we might ever have done otherwise, had we waited to discover all the steps to publishing and marketing on our own.
So, I am going to write The Mystery of the Windblown Feather, publish it on Kindle, and do some super marketing – all by the end of July.
Note that The Mystery of the Windblown Feather is the fourth book in the series: The Millerville Mysteries. The projects following this mystery will be the next three in the series. I’d love to have them all done by the end of 2016. That would mean a total of seven books done in this series alone. Not bad.
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