Inspirational Stories
One Self-Published Author Sells a Million Books a Year
This year Diane Pfeifer will sell over a million copies of her Gone with the Grits cookbook and other books (GritsBits.com). How did she do it? Her answer: Just a combo of wholesale gift shop sales, gift catalogs, on-site retail including holiday shows, special sales (Quaker Grits), commodities catalogs, in-office/school lobby sales and, of course, Amazon and Ingram. […]
How to Create a Bestselling Novel (and Movie)!
Here’s a short story about Andy Weir, author of The Martian: He didn’t start out to write a book. He just started blogging some stories on what it would be like to survive on Mars. And people started reading those stores — and liking them. That’s how he began to build his author platform. Then […]
New York Times Bestseller from Amazon Sales Only
A book author I consulted with last week described how her book made the New York Times monthly bestseller list when her only book sales were being made on Amazon.com with a print-on-demand book. Now that’s amazing. Even better she is still making sales of $100,000 per month via Amazon. On one book. She used Facebook as her main […]