2 Important Money Hacks on Writing Microbooks.
I may not have realized their importance until recently.
Microbooks are a wonderful way to add some “oomph” to your writing. Give it some exposure. Give it the chance to make you some bucks. Again and again.
But not the first one, not just two or three. They are like shrimp. It takes a mess to make a meal.
I talked about some of the finer points about writing microbooks here, and here.
Series
Some reader questions asked about a series. and the answer is yes, completely. KDP will group your books together in, for instance, a microbook series, or if you have two, you can place them in microbook series one, or microbooks series two.
They are all kept neatly together and they are all displayed to browsers a bit better, I think.
So yes to series. They will help promote each other, and tell the shopper about the rest of that series they have not purchased yet. And while you are at it, do all the covers in Canva, or somewhere you can make them all look very similar.
Description
Secondly, don’t do as I have done, that is, in my rush to the finish line I procrastinated the description area on the listing, thinking I could do it whenever I had time. That is stupid.
That is possibly the most important page of your book.
First, you need to catch the reader’s eye with the cover and title. the second thing they will look at is the description. I have published some before that had no sales at all until I made myself do a description. Then one copy sold that first day.
And I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
Are you writing yet, or simply considering writing?
Are you making money with your writing?
Have you tried your hand at writing a micro book yet?
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