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Kindle eBook launch, Wednesday April 18, 2012
What Every Dream Means
by
Author Scott M. Shafer
Get
your KINDLE ebook on Wednesday, April 18, from Amazon and you can
download lots of free egifts. Take a peek at what YOU can receive:
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
What Every Dream Means, book launch extended till Wednesday, April 18!
Friday, April 13, 2012
What Every Dream Means Kindle E-Book Launch Announcement
I want to invite everyone to join me on Tue. April 17, 2012 for my Kindle E-Book Launch day. My book is titled, What Every Dream Means and reached #2 on Amazon for the paperback edition. Please help me to get the word out on Tuesday! Share it with a friend, co-worker, your pastor or someone that you know who dreams. Maybe you do?Check out all the FREE bonus gifts from the partners!
Date: Tue. 4/17/12
Time: All Day! 12 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Location: Global/Internet
Saturday, April 7, 2012
King on a Donkey
Easter Guest Post by John Miller
Photography by Lorilyn Roberts
His entrance into Jerusalem is personal, deliberate. There
is no armed escort. There are no chariots, no jeweled robes, no
marching soldiers, no shining shields, no flashing helmets, no
glittering spears, and no heralding trumpets. Yet, Jesus of Nazareth
enters Jerusalem as a king - a conquering king - sitting astride a donkey colt.
Herod's temple rises above an enormous platform, its tower rising over eighty feet to proclaim dominance of the Jewish population. Its Roman influence in design, as endorsed by Herod, is detestable to many city Jews. Yet, the Jewish homes and palaces that dot the hillsides are also designed with a Roman influence. These are the abodes of the rich priests, merchants and their families living alongside the Romans, while lesser Jews live in crowded neighborhoods of simple homes and work the small shops that line the streets.
Their
collective lifestyle has become much like their alien oppressors, while
their ancient culture holds remnants of sacred rituals born in the Tent
of Meeting during the Exodus. Most Jewish hearts of this city are dark
with hatred of the rebel Jesus, who is about to ride into the city with
the swarm of followers. The Temple leaders have been informed of the
unwelcome throng of rebel flesh by Temple spies who ran ahead of the
King’s procession. Jesus knows all this and His heart is deeply
saddened.
To read more, visit John Miller's blog at http://4him1st.blogspot.com/
Thursday, March 29, 2012
John 316 Blog Hop Coming May 7 through May 14!
Only one
month to go until the John 3:16 Giveaway Blog Hop –
May 7th – 14th!
Join over fifty authors and bloggers who will be
offering great books and other prizes on their blogs during that week. As a
reader, you just “hop” from blog to blog and sign up to win some great prizes
at each blog.
But wait…you also have a chance of winning one of two
Kindles!
How’s that for fun?
Tell all your friends and join us May 7th –
14th for the
Monday, March 26, 2012
New Feature on Amazon: KDP Select for KDP Authors & Publishers
Any Kindle books
you have published on Amazon can be entered into the KDP Select Program. It’s
the exclusivity that makes this a unique Amazon feature. You must remove your
ebook from other distributors, like Smashwords and Barnes & Noble (even
your own website or blog) for at least ninety days.
The KDP Select
titles are allowed to be advertised for free for five days every ninety days.
If you have U.S. rights, your Kindle book will be entered into the Kindle
Owners Lending Library. Each time your ebook is loaned to another qualified
member of the program, you can earn a certain percentage back, based on a
complicated set of algorithms that I don’t understand. I didn’t give it much
thought until one of our members shared recently on the forum that he had made
a couple of hundred dollars the previous month based on the number of times his
book had been loaned out by members.
Some authors in the Network have “sold” thousands of Kindle books for free during the time their ebooks have been free in the KDP Select Program. While they didn’t receive royalties, their Kindle books were widely distributed, and many ranked in the top one hundred “free” Amazon ebooks. When Amazon returned their ebooks to the “paid” category, briefly they maintained their best-seller ranking, becoming a best-seller of sorts by default. In many instances, the increased sales of ebooks carried over into print books or other books they had published. To learn more about KDP Select, visit: http://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/KDPSelect.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
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Saturday, March 10, 2012
Blog Hop by John 316 Authors May 7 through May 14
Guest Post by Lynn Dove
Don't Miss Our Blog Hop by John 316 Authors
May 7 through May 14
Lots of free gifts, including two Kindles!
The John 3:16 Marketing Network
For the past couple of years, I have had the privilege of being one of many authors in the John 3:16 Marketing Network. When
I was a ”newbie” marketing my books I struggled…”floundered” is a
better word, in getting the word out there about my books. I STILL
do! But praise God for the John 3:16 Network of authors. From the
moment I became a member I have been whole-heartedly encouraged by a
great group of Christian authors who share the common goal to reach
others for Christ through our books. The thing is for us to reach that
goal, people actually need to pick up
our books and read them, and that’s where the John 3:16 Marketing
Network comes in. It’s authors helping authors through the use of
online social networking to help with book launches and promotion.
But it goes beyond that. We are offered techniques and tips to help us achieve “Best Seller” status on Amazon.com Achieving “Best Seller” status is not only incredibly encouraging to an author, but it elicits even more public interest in the book. In my case, with the help of the Network, I not only achieved best seller status on Amazon.com with my second book, Heal the Wounded on the day of its launch, but I garnered renewed interest in my debut novel, Shoot the Wounded, so it climbed to #1 on Amazon.ca !
I can’t tell you how excited I was to see that! More recently the Network has been looking at other ways of promoting the au
thors
and their books. Lorilyn Roberts, founder of the John 3:16 Marketing
Network with the help of a few others put together a great promotional
book: Taste and See, A Sampling of First Chapters by John 316 Marketing Network
Authors As one of the contributors I was delighted to participate in this innovative project.
May 7 – 14, the John 3:16 authors will be hosting a Giveaway Blog Hop where our readers can go from blog to blog and win some great book prizes and more. We’re also going to offer a chance for subscribers to our blogs to win one of TWO Kindles! More details to follow as we get closer to the date.
our books and read them, and that’s where the John 3:16 Marketing
Network comes in. It’s authors helping authors through the use of
online social networking to help with book launches and promotion.But it goes beyond that. We are offered techniques and tips to help us achieve “Best Seller” status on Amazon.com Achieving “Best Seller” status is not only incredibly encouraging to an author, but it elicits even more public interest in the book. In my case, with the help of the Network, I not only achieved best seller status on Amazon.com with my second book, Heal the Wounded on the day of its launch, but I garnered renewed interest in my debut novel, Shoot the Wounded, so it climbed to #1 on Amazon.ca !
I can’t tell you how excited I was to see that! More recently the Network has been looking at other ways of promoting the au
thors
and their books. Lorilyn Roberts, founder of the John 3:16 Marketing
Network with the help of a few others put together a great promotional
book: Taste and See, A Sampling of First Chapters by John 316 Marketing NetworkAuthors As one of the contributors I was delighted to participate in this innovative project.
May 7 – 14, the John 3:16 authors will be hosting a Giveaway Blog Hop where our readers can go from blog to blog and win some great book prizes and more. We’re also going to offer a chance for subscribers to our blogs to win one of TWO Kindles! More details to follow as we get closer to the date.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
My
first book Shadows From the Past is going to be free this week on Smashwords. Here is the link if you want to pick it up: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/42323
Please feel free to share with anyone who would like it!
Thanks,
Ashley
If you know anyone with questions about God, please give them my ebook "Finding God: Biblical Answers to Questions about our Maker."
This short ebook can impact lives by answering critical questions like is God real, is Jesus real, what does he expect from us, how why can find him and how we can accept his precious gift of salvation. It is free during Smashwords Ebook Week special at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/122476. Or you can download it free at the New Christian Books Online store at http://www.songsfromtheword.com/NewChristianBooks/store/products/category/free/
Thanks for partnering with me! May the Lord meet you and bless you in all your needs!
Cheryl Rogers Writing, Editing, Desktop Design
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Two Launches and Two Best Sellers - How Do They Compare?
Phew! As I wipe my brow after my second successful book launch, I can't help but compare the two experiences. First of all, let me say that it is doubtful I would have managed either without the support of the John 3:16 Marketing Network.
For those who missed it, the 'Best Sellers Book Launch' of my third novel PLAY IT AGAIN took place online this past Tuesday - Feb. 21. Once again, I managed to nudge my way into the 'best seller's' circle at Amazon.ca - the Canadian branch of amazon. Amazon.ca does not allow for category changes, so the book was locked into the broad 'Romance-Contemporary' category but still managed to make it into the top 100. (In fact it's holding its own in the top 100 after the third day.) The stats at amazon.com weren't quite as astounding, but it did manage to move up the ranks to 29,000 in books - not bad considering there are millions of books on amazon.
It was almost one year ago to the day that I held my first book launch with the John 3:16 MN. This first foray into the world of online book launches was for my book MY MOTHER THE MAN-EATER. It too managed to make it into the top 100 on amazon.ca/
So how did these two compare, you may ask? The outcomes were very similar - something I am obviously grateful for and quite excited about. As far as the actual preparation, however, there were a number of differences. To start with, I found about 50 people to help with the launch of 'Man-eater'. For launch number two of PLAY IT AGAIN, I had a solid 75 participants with several others emailing me after the fact to say that they had joined in the promotional efforts when they saw it on the John3:16MN listserv. There were also those who retweeted or shared links, so the actual number of those helping was probably closer to 90.
Beyond the numbers, the biggest difference for me was the fact that I was much more relaxed for launch number two. I knew what to expect and the day progressed quite smoothly. I also found that the preparation was much easier to do. I knew how to keep myself organized ( a MAJOR component, believe me!), how to approach and support potential participants, and how to create my landing and gift pages. All of these factors are key components to a successful book launch. You need to make it as painless as possible for those who are willing to help. Don't expect them to do the leg work or to even remember the date! It's up to you, the author, to look after the details and provide timely reminders without bombarding anyone.
The long and the short of it is, if you put in the time and the effort, this form of marketing and book promotion really works. Thanks again to all of my online friends who helped make PLAY IT AGAIN a best seller. I especially want to thank Lorilyn Roberts for her vision and tirelessness, as well as all the members of the John3:16MN community. We really have something special here, and I'm sure this is just the beginning of good things to come.
So how did these two compare, you may ask? The outcomes were very similar - something I am obviously grateful for and quite excited about. As far as the actual preparation, however, there were a number of differences. To start with, I found about 50 people to help with the launch of 'Man-eater'. For launch number two of PLAY IT AGAIN, I had a solid 75 participants with several others emailing me after the fact to say that they had joined in the promotional efforts when they saw it on the John3:16MN listserv. There were also those who retweeted or shared links, so the actual number of those helping was probably closer to 90.
Beyond the numbers, the biggest difference for me was the fact that I was much more relaxed for launch number two. I knew what to expect and the day progressed quite smoothly. I also found that the preparation was much easier to do. I knew how to keep myself organized ( a MAJOR component, believe me!), how to approach and support potential participants, and how to create my landing and gift pages. All of these factors are key components to a successful book launch. You need to make it as painless as possible for those who are willing to help. Don't expect them to do the leg work or to even remember the date! It's up to you, the author, to look after the details and provide timely reminders without bombarding anyone.
The long and the short of it is, if you put in the time and the effort, this form of marketing and book promotion really works. Thanks again to all of my online friends who helped make PLAY IT AGAIN a best seller. I especially want to thank Lorilyn Roberts for her vision and tirelessness, as well as all the members of the John3:16MN community. We really have something special here, and I'm sure this is just the beginning of good things to come.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Book Launch of "Play it Again," Free egifts TODAY ONLY (Feb 21, 2012)
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Monday, February 13, 2012
What is The Biggest Mistake Authors Make When Featuring Their Books on Amazon?
How to Categorize Printed Books on Amazon
For the purpose
of the next discussion, I am going to address specifically how to get printed books
categorized on Amazon and raise the possibility of reaching best-seller status.
There are
different ways a book can be categorized. Categories are different from tags.
Tags are what people reading a book do to label how they think a book should be
listed. But that is not the same thing as what an author needs to do to get his
book categorized to reach best-seller status.
I am going to
go into specific detail here because many people have missed best-seller status
simply because their books were not categorized narrowly enough in the
subcategories.
Most authors
are familiar with the Amazon Bestseller Rank. Unfortunately, most authors will
never hit the top one hundred best-seller status on Amazon. But that doesn’t
mean one can’t make the best-seller list in the subcategories or
sub-subcategories on Amazon. It is possible for a debut author to reach
best-seller status in one or more subcategories on Amazon. The problem is that
most authors know nothing about how to do this.
What does being
on the Amazon Bestseller List mean? Most people would say it means a book
reached the top one hundred in sales at a given time. To do a book launch in
the John 3:16 Network, the author should track sales for a 24-hour period.
Sometimes there is a slight lag, but not so much that the highest ranking won’t
appear during or shortly after that 24-hour period.
I encourage
authors in the Network to take a “screen shot” several times during the day to
try to record their lowest ranking toward number one in one or more
subcategories. To take a screen shot, if you are using Windows, hit
control/print screen together, go to a blank Word document, and hit Control-V.
Your screen shot will appear and you can save it as a Word document.
How do you get
your book categorized on Amazon in subcategories? This is crucial for a debut
author to have a chance to claim “best-seller” status.
Amazon has
several platforms in place to help authors. One of these is their Author
Central Program. If you do not have an account, the site will prompt you to set
up one. The link is https://authorcentral.amazon.com/gp/home. Here is a screen shot of the page.
Beneath that,
you will see the number 2, and the question, “How would you like to contact
us?” You can either email or phone Amazon. I would email them first. You will
explain to them that you would like to update the categories of your book.
How do you know
what categories to use? On printed editions of your book, you are allowed two
categories. Don’t assume Amazon will do it the way you want. It’s best to be
pro-active on such an important point and give them what you want exactly the
way you want it.
To know what
categories in which to list your book, you need to be familiar with how Amazon
categorizes books. Go to http://amazon.com and
look on the left-hand side for the search browser. Click on books.
Here is a
screen shot at what you will be taken to (some versions of this e-book may not
display it):
You will notice
on the left-hand side the category “department,” and underneath it “books.”
Listed underneath books are all the main categories on Amazon beginning with
“arts and photography” and ending with “travel.”
You will notice
that under “arts and photography” are listed 387,013 books. That means in order
to reach best-seller status in this category, you will have to beat out 387,000-plus
books.
Let me go down
to the category “parenting & families,” which has 88,692 books. If you
click on that, you will see it breaks down into subcategories of adoption,
aging parents, family activities, family health, family relationships,
fertility, parenting, pregnancy & childbirth, reference, and special needs.
Children of Dreams reached number
eight in the subcategory of adoption, out of 1,641 books. That means my book
has been a bestseller on Amazon in adoption books.
In the email
that I sent to Amazon, I listed one of my categories as parenting &
families/adoption. Since I could list two for my printed copy, I listed the
second category as “parenting & families/family relationships/motherhood.
The category for motherhood has 4,550 books. I also reached best-seller status
in this at number eleven.
Obviously, the
more books there are in a category or subcategory, the harder it’s going to be
to get into the top one hundred, so the narrower the subcategory, the more
successful you will be.
That brings me
to the second part of this discussion on categories, which is important. You
must categorize your printed edition and your Kindle edition separately. With
Kindle, you also get two categories. It is much easier to reach best-seller
status on Kindle than with a printed book. Why? There are fewer Kindle books
that you are competing against than printed books. Not every book has been
published in Kindle.
First go to https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/signin
Second, sign
into your account.
Third, click
the "actions" button for the book you would like to update
Fourth, scroll
down to number three, target your book to customers
Fifth, click on
add categories. That will open up to a new screen, add or change categories
Sixth, click on
the plus button in front of these main categories to open up subcategories and
sub-subcategories. Make your selections.
Seven, click on
save.
The screen will
return to the default page, where you started. Please notice that this is also
where you make other changes to your e-book, including editing your book
details.
To learn more about how to have a successful book launch, you may purchase How to Launch a Christian Best Seller.
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