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#89 Dealing with the mistakes of a book launch

Posted on January 31, 2019 by M J Dees

I try to learn from every book launch. The lessons I learned from my previous book launches was that my books ad advertising had to be much better targeted in terms of keywords. To solve this I purchased KDP Rocket … Continue reading →

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#60 Getting the first print copies through the post

Posted on January 30, 2018 by M J Dees

It’s about a week and a half since the launch and my print copies have already arrived so I take everything back that I said about the Brazilian postal service. It also means that I have five copies to sign … Continue reading →

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#56 The day before the launch

Posted on January 20, 2018 by M J Dees

As it is the day before the launch I have already prepared images, like the one above to go on my Facebook page. All the advertising on Facebook and Amazon is set up and ready to go. Book promotions have … Continue reading →

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#52 Choosing the name of the next novel

Posted on November 18, 2017 by M J Dees

  What better way to avoid writing than to choose the title for the next book. I have already commissioned the cover design but had a little doubt about the exact title so decided to ask the members of my … Continue reading →

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#46 Checking how many books I’ve sold

Posted on August 31, 2017 by M J Dees

Once the book is released it is too tempting to keep going back to look to see how many I have sold. To do this I need to go to three web sites. KINDLE direct Publishing for the Kindle versions … Continue reading →

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#45 Preparing a book for launch

Posted on August 17, 2017 by M J Dees

I’m now about 5,000 words behind schedule on the word count for my fourth novel because I have been a bit consumed with preparing the launch of the first. The first thing I did was load the manuscript up to … Continue reading →

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#38 Struggle with Facebook Ads and Mail Chimp lists

Posted on April 22, 2017 by M J Dees

I’ve been so convinced by the conversations on the Self Publishing Formula podcasts that I decided to create some experiments of my own. In he first experiment, I boosted one of my Facebook posts by paying R$3 (US$1) So that … Continue reading →

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#37 Sitting in a hospital waiting room

Posted on April 13, 2017 by M J Dees

No matter how much a look after ourselves, which in my case isn’t very much, we inevitably feel a bit under the weather from time to time. Everyone knows that the GP is the first stop for any illness other … Continue reading →

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#36 Finding out all about self-publishing

Posted on April 13, 2017 by M J Dees

Like a lot of people, I always considered self-publishing to be tantamount to vanity publishing.  However, the more I learn about self-publishing, the more I realise that many authors are choosing it over the traditional route because it gives them … Continue reading →

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