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Writing a Book Series to Profit, Brand, Get Media & Have Fun
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Writing a Book Series to Profit, Brand, Get Media & Have Fun

The Best Ways for Authors, Self-publishers and Experts to Write Non-fiction and Fiction Book Series
Created byJulia Hidy
Last updated 7/2014
English

What you'll learn

  • Learn what it takes to write and promote a book series vs. a stand alone book title.

Course content

7 sections • 16 lectures • 1h 32m total length

  • What Amazon Has Done That Now Benefits Book Series' Authors2:30

    Amazon made changes recently as to how they list and display book series. This is is an introduction to how the new page one listings will be covered later in the course.

    I also introduce myself. I've written two book series and have had three Amazon bestsellers in the U.S. and U.K. I've studied book series and their authors for 15 years, and I'll share what I've learned so that you'll know what options and opportunities you can create when you write your own book series.

  • Who ‘Writing A Book Series’ Is For3:17

    You may think that writing book series is only for bestselling authors in certain categories. It may surprise you to learn that there are book series listed in almost major category on Amazon. The lectures in Section 4 cover the specifics of the amazon.com and kindle.com categories you can use to list your series. This lectures gives you ideas of how many different types of ways and reasons there are to write a book series.

    Find out if your reasons for wanting to write a series are listed here? And make note of the other reasons since you may also find them to be useful.

  • Advantages of Writing a Book Series, Part 12:33

    This lecture looks at the key differences and advantages for book series' authors. It helps you consider how much more leverage you can get when you do write a series vs. a single stand-alone title.

  • Advantages of Writing A Book Series, Part 2 and Readers Reaction to Book Series3:05

    There are 'hard' and 'soft' benefits and opportunities for you when you write a book series. The ways that you can benefit as an author, in the short and long-term by writing a series, are also covered.

  • Competition on Amazon and Kindle Statistics and How Book Series Authors Benefit4:28

    Amazon is the world's largest online retailer and bookseller. Knowing how much competition there is will encourage you to become more active as a marketer. This lecture will give you insights into how big Amazon is, how they've grown in only two years, and what you can expect in the future. You'll understand more why writing a book series is currently one of the better ways on Amazon and Kindle to help your books be listed and found.

  • Bestselling Book Series' Leaders and What They Sell Beyond Their Books5:47

    Discover how well have certain book series authors branded their books and their names. Then we'll look at how book sales are only one part of the profitable equation that most book series authors consider as they expand their content and businesses. This lecture looks at what a few bestselling authors have done beyond the covers of their books.

Requirements

  • Desire to write a book series.
  • Recommended: Word processor with standard software.

Description

For the last two decades, book series authors have dominated Amazon's and New York Times' best seller lists. Most of the top sellers each year have been authors who decided to write a book series.

In April 2014, Amazon.com and Kindle created new links on the home book pages of their websites with direct links to book series titles. Kindle has also changed the internal page structure on their site to make it even easier to discover and purchase titles by book series authors.

The caveat is that you have to write a book series to take advantage of the benefits and visibility that Amazon has recently built into their website.

This course helps you understand how to benefit when you write a series instead of a stand-alone book title. You'll discover:

o how competitive Amazon and Kindle have become, and why having a book series will give you more areas on their sites to list your books;

o how to write and leverage your series -- with your readers, the media, and with other online booksellers;

You'll also learn what bestselling authors in a number of genres have done to brand themselves and their titles. Between them the authors covered have sold well over 200 million books. Find out what they did beyond selling books to exponentially increase their businesses, get more media coverage and appeal to readers from one book to the next.

Also find out:

o what you can do to write your book series;

o what to consider and do as you do create, write and market your series; and

o how and why writing a book series has the potential to provide you with more opportunities to have readers and the media find your titles online.

You will receive writing tips specific to book series. The topics covered in the lectures will also be useful if you decide to write a standalone book instead.

What you should know: There are many other fine courses you can take to learn to outline, structure and write your book. This course gives you ideas and tips to:

o more easily develop your series;

o brand yourself as an author;

o create a website SEO structure to help you position yourself as an expert; and

o consider business ideas that can take you beyond writing a book into other complementary business areas.

This course has been given as a workshop to top authors at online and physical writers' conferences. The content has been updated and the latest trends and research are included.

Take this course if you love to read book series, and want to write books. You can also take this course if you have a longer title, and want to break it up and re-release it as a series to take advantage of Amazon and Kindle's new program and listings for book series authors.

Who this course is for:

  • Writers, authors who are self-publishers, with small publishers or Big 5 publishers. This course is also excellent for consultants, experts, and educators. It is also suitable for people who wish to hire an editor or ghost writer to produce a book series for them.

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