Review: Great read, great pep talk, great numbers
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2012
As soon as I saw the title "How I Made Over $42,000 in 1 Month Selling My Kindle eBooks" with actual numbers, I didn't think twice about sending this $2.99-priced book to my iPad.I stayed up late and read it whilst I did my hair weave and finished it in one sitting.If anything, it was a wonderful pep-talk that gave me great motivation and advice to stick with it and continue to create those Kindle books that I've already published (under my pen name) -- and I plan to publish more.Cheryl was very practical in giving lots of real numbers from her blog, which detailed her KDP Select journey, and inside she reveals that book that earned $32,000 of that $42K as well.I love it when writers give real numbers.Plus, Cheryl is practical about how much she promotes her books -- and gives good tips on how to promote your own. Although I may not take the Twitter route as much as she did and focus more on the SEO of Amazon search engine suggestions and stuff (something I think that helped her book "The River" really sell well), it still helped tremendously to hear her philosophy on promotion vs. spamming vs. good out and out marketing.The book also has a list of great resources of places that you can alert to your KDP Select free days. I plan on using that the next time I'm promotion my books' free days. And just like the author, I experienced increased sales after participating in the free days.Plus, I'd like to advise Kindle book authors who don't do so already to include their Amazon Associates affiliate links within their tomes of the books and products they recommend therein (that is, if they are still in a state that approves the Amazon Associates referral program) -- why not make more money off the referral fees as well as the book sales?Anyway, great job, Cheryl, and thank you for this book. Well worth it.