by Evanlowe | Dec 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
Chelsea Campbell published her debut book The Rise of Renegade X through a traditional publisher, and thought she’d hit the jackpot. But then the sales weren’t great, and the publisher didn’t do much work to promote it. Overall, it was a disappointing experience. Because of the bad sales, when Campbell wrote a sequel and showed it to them, they turned her down. Of course she was dejected, but she also knew that this rejection didn’t have to be the end of her dreams. For years, fans of her first book asked her when her next book was coming out, so she knew she couldn’t disappoint them. She created a Kickstarter campaign to self-publish another book in the series. Although a Kickstarter campaign can be difficult to get funded, she got 77 backers to pledge a total of $2,517, which was enough to pay for editing, layout, cover art, and other things required to bring a book to life. Book 2 came out to the great glee of all her fans. A little while afterwards, both books took off on Amazon. In the Superheroes, category, they soared to the top of Amazon’s bestseller and hot new releases lists. What’s more, the series is now optioned by Disney Channel Movies. In four years she never made any money in traditional publishing. Yet here she was, a little bit after publishing her second book, and she was killing it financially. Even that is not the end of the story: the books sold so well that a publisher gave her a big advance for the third and fourth book (an editor for Skyscrape contacted her agent). So even though...
by Evanlowe | Dec 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
Melissa Leong was a business journalist who wrote a YA vampire novel, What Kills Me, and sent it to 20 agents. Unfortunately, many of them didn’t respond and others flatly said they weren’t interested in the topic, without even reading the manuscript. After enduring many rejections, she didn’t know what to do. Her novel sat untouched and she wondered whether she should stick with journalism and not try fiction again. That is, until she finally took advice from her friends to self-publish. She did so through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing site and waited for something to happen. With the price set at $2.99, nothing did happen. She sold virtually no copies. But when she dropped the price to under a dollar, at $0.99, she rocketed up to Amazon’s bestseller list in the Occult and Action & Adventure categories. Soon she had a ton of spectacular things happening: interviews from prominent bloggers and reviewers and book outlets massive amounts of publicity tons of reviews from ardent fans fan mail and, of course, sales, sales, sales ($ $ $) Best of all, three movie producers contacted her for TV/movie adaptations. No word yet, but she’s still hoping the series makes it to the big screen. Melissa Leong has proven you can still become a six figure author with a 99 cent ebook. Melissa Leong writes under the pseudonym Wynne Channing ___ You, too can have your book optioned by Hollywood for a movie or TV show. You just need a road map. Download my free guide Your Book Can Become A...
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