This episode discusses best practices for submitting books to many of the smaller promotion sites to give yourself the best chance of being accepted. Also how to make the most out of promotions.

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This episode of The Happy writer looks at the very limited options we have to promote audiobooks, and what are best practices if you want to have regular audiobook sales.

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When you promote your book, is free or 99c the best option? The Happy Writer 51 discusses your options and advantages and disadvantages of each.

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Episode 50 of The Happy Writer looks at the claim that publishing has become too competitive and whether you should let this influence your decision to publish.

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The Happy Writer 49 looks at how it is possible to have a successful writing career without ever having a bestseller.

If a book you wrote becomes a bestseller, that's great, and secretly we all wish for that to happen, but it's mostly out of our control, and trying to engineer a bestseller is expensive and stressful and dicey at best. It may not be a productive use of your money or time.

Not worrying about sales rankings is enormously liberating and leaves you more time for creativity and to concentrate on where you get the most benefit per sale.

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In episode 48 of the Happy Writer we look at book trailers and other book-related video, how you can produce it and what you can do with it.

With the advent and popularity of short video content on social media, the traditional "book trailer" concept is outdated, and so is its hideous price tag. You can easily and cheaply produce book-related video that you can use on social media, in ads and even on your Amazon page.

What do you need and what apps to use? Listen to this episode.

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In The Happy Writer 47 I talk about drip ads, what they are and why they can be beneficial, especially when you're just starting with ads for your book marketing.

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The Happy Writer 46 is a craft episode in which we look at how to use your ideas and craft them into stories. Most writers have ideas files, and files of notes from which they borrow all the time. One idea is usually not enough to fill an entire novel, but it can enough for a shorter work. I discuss how short stories can be training for writing longer works if you have trouble with plotting.

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In The Happy Writer episode 45, we will go into the things you'll need to consider when choosing an email list provider. In the first place, why do you need one? What is the purpose of your list? How do you intend to recruit people onto the list?  

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In The Happy Writer 44, we look at how to determine what makes a good book cover, how to evaluate cover design portfolios and about having a cautious attitude towards cover design.

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