Review: Full of Marketing Ideas for Self-Pubbed Authors
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2014
This is Cheryl Kaye Tardiff's account of how she made a very good wage as a writer when she first self-pubbed in 2012. If anyone wants to try to copy her methods, we can now because they are common knowledge. She lists her suggestions in a clear, concise form, touting the magic of Kindle Direct Publishing Select program. I also have a book on KDP Select, for sale on Amazon and agreed with everything Tardiff said. My book is 20 pages, and only deals with free days. I consider myself somewhat of an expert in the Free Days program but still learned something from Tardiff's notes.  In buying this book I was most interested, not in the money so much, but in how she secured a cracker jack agent at Trident.How I Made is a helpful tool to measure marketing efforts against someone who's had a bigger payoff and has reached that next level of success. Some of the $42,000 had to do with timing (when KDP Select free days first came out) but a lot had to do with Tardiff's marketing ideas and gumption. Whether you choose to follow her methods is entirely up to each individual reading this account.These days authors, and especially self-pubbed authors, have to do their own marketing and often the difference between a bestseller and a book that lingers around 800,000 is simply the author's ability to promote, find marketing avenues, and be brave enough to get your book cover in front of people. The market is overcrowded with books, authors, self-promoters and it's difficult to stand out from the person who's publishing what they eat for breakfast. This book was full of ideas, tricks, tips."How I Made" was exactly what it promised on the cover, an account of one woman's journey to success, and then some.Thanks for sharing, Cheryl Kaye Tardiff!