Carrying on with the theme of proving you have an audience for your book
before trying to get a traditional publisher interested ie. going down
the self publishing route first, here's an inspiring story that it
really can work:
In August 2011 I found myself reading
about Louise Voss who put her novel on the Kindle for 96p and landed a
six-figure, four-book deal with HarperFiction.
At the time I worked out
she was making the same amount per eBook as I was - and mine was 5 times
the price!
As a result of the deal, her eBook would now be printed and
stocked in book shops in the traditional way.
She promoted it through
social networking and by asking independent reviewers (AKA Indie
reviewers who specialise in reviewing self published material) to write
about it online.
Entering the Amazon Top 100 UK downloads must have been
a thrill, but she built on that momentum and quickly shot to the top of
the Amazon Kindle and Amazon Fiction charts.
The book sold 50,000
copies and stayed at the number one UK download spot for the whole of
June.
It didn't cost her anything to load up the book on Amazon. All she
paid for was an image on the front cover.
She made around £20,000 on
the combined sales of her first novel and second novel using this
method. Not bad going at all!
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