Nonfiction Books

➤ BOOKS MENTIONED (AFFILIATE LINKS)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling: http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9781408855683/?a_aid=thebookcastle
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson: http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9780812984965/?a_aid=thebookcastle
Penguin Modern Poets 4: http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9780141984032/?a_aid=thebookcastle
Sugar Money by Jane Harris: http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9780571336920/?a_aid=thebookcastle
Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan: http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9780141975344/?a_aid=thebookcastle
Ghosts by Daylight by Janine di Giovanni: http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9781408822319/?a_aid=thebookcastle
I See You by Clare Mackintosh: http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9780751554120/?a_aid=thebookcastle
The Strays by Emily Bitto: http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9781455537723/?a_aid=thebookcastle
The Beginning of the World in the Middle of The Night by Jen Campbell: http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9781473653535/?a_aid=thebookcastle
Mythos by Stephen Fry: http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9780718188726/?a_aid=thebookcastle

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Find my social media links and learn about my novels at https://www.mcleanamy.co.uk See my PLAYLISTS for more! https://www.youtube.com/c/amymclean13/playlists I love books. Did you know that? If not, I do. Lots and lots and lots. Sometimes I talk about books in my normal voice, and sometimes I like to relax with books in an ASMR video (because, let’s face it, it means I can talk for longer about books!). The books featured in this haul are as follows:

– Carrington’s Letters : The Letters of Dora Carrington – edited by Anne Chisholm
– Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John – Sally Cline
– Mad Girl’s Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted Hughes – Andrew Wilson
– Eminent Victorians – Lytton Strachey
– Cambridge Latin Course Book 2
– Virginia Woolf: Illustrated
– Virginia Woolf’s Women – Vanessa Curtis
– English Literature: 1700 to Fielding

What is the meaning of ASMR? ASMR is an initialism for autonomous sensory meridian response. It is often described as that tingly sensation felt most often in the back of the head, and more generally refers to a method of relaxation. There’s roleplay ASMR (some that makes ASMR questionable, such as flirty ASMR, ASMR girlfriend style, and apparently hot ASMR…). You can find many if you give a quick ASMR video YouTube search, including ASMR YouTube sleep content, VR ASMR, YouTube ASMR sleep, ASMR blue Yeti content, ASMR gentle whispers, and accidental ASMR!

Examples of ASMRtists include Frivvifox, Equilibrium ASMR, Angelique ASMR, Maria GentleWhispering, ASMRMagic, ASMR Angel, Rainbow ASMR, ASMRMania, VisualSounds1, ASMR Reiki, theukasmr, and YouTube ASMR Darling content.

ASMR triggers here include female ASMR, UK ASMR, ASMR whispers, ASMR whispering, soft-spoken ASMR, ASMR hauls, and ASMR books.

MY LINKS
My novels: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Amy-McLean/e/B00LM2Y9EI/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1

My playlists: https://www.youtube.com/user/TVCriticAmy/playlists

Website: https://www.mcleanamy.co.uk/

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Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7244575.Amy_McLean

My current email address can be found on my website, where you will also find a handy contact form!

IMDb is my source of choice for information about films, including details of cinematography, editing, casting, producers, and costumes, as well details about filming locations, premieres, release dates, and movie trailers. www.imdb.com

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Self-Publishing authors ask how to price a self published book on Amazon. It’s an important decision when Amazon represents roughly 80% of book sales (or, more!) for self-published authors.

Author and entrepreneur, Julie Broad explains It’s not as simple as figuring out what profit you’ll make. There are a lot of factors to take into account when you decide what price to sell your non-fiction book at. In this video, you’ll learn one approach for using market research to help you figure out the range of prices your book should be in while being available for sale on Amazon, bookstores, and elsewhere.

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When you self-published one of the essential things that you have to figure out to sell your book is what price point to offer it at now there’s a few things that you want to think about before you use the formula or the approach if you will that I’m about to show you when you’re trying to figure out the price point of your book it’s one part art one part science.

First you want to figure out what is the ultimate goal of your book, what are the distribution channels, and what is the value you’re offering to the reader.

By the way Amazon is really what you need to pay attention to as a self-published author that’s where more than 80% of your book sales are going to come from even if you have bookstore distribution so really you’re figuring out what’s gonna make you stand out and keep that Amazon
monster fat and happy but how do you figure it all out.

Let’s say you’ve decided that start with Y by simon Sinek is a good comparable for your book so I’ve gone ahead and pulled it up on Amazon and now what you want to do is a couple things first you’re gonna pull the price for the Kindle, you’re gonna pull the price for the paperback, and there is in fact a hardcover available so you’re gonna take all those prices and put them in a spreadsheet just like I did over here so spreadsheet put book title category Kindle price as you can see all these at the top

Then you’re going to input information here so a book title category and then most importantly you’re putting the Kindle price, the softcover price and overall sales so a couple things you want to pay attention to so we’re gonna scroll down I’m gonna where you can find the sales numbers

So the Amazon bestsellers ranks so it’s 148 overall in books and now I want to look at the categories because this is where I might find some other books that are similar to it.

These are kind of weird categories for this book actually so I’m gonna stick with entrepreneurship so I’m gonna click on this it’s a hyperlink and I’m going to go ahead and look at other books that might be in this category to see if there’s something else that might be another cop for my books so let’s just see we’ll just say blueprint to business make it so now what I want to look at is number of reviews. This one doesn’t have very many reviews so I probably won’t use it as a comp

You want to look for somebody with probably 50 or more reviews and four-star or higher because that’s really again you’re looking for pricing comparables you don’t really want to compete against somebody who it has no reviews the book isn’t selling because that’s not going to be a great cop so keep searching around until you find about 20 to 50 of these type of books whenever you find one that’s a good comp I would then head over to down here check out where it is so this one is number one in accounting but keep in mind what categories are a
good fit for you so maybe personal finance is a good category so you’d head over and now look at what books are in that.

So you want 50 or more reviews and you also want to have books that are in multiple formats so let’s say this book the code of an extraordinary mind was only available in Kindle that wouldn’t work for our purposes we want books that are available in Kindle and ideally softcover as well as hardcover and then you’re just gonna take all this information and keep in putting it into the spreadsheet and then at the end of it like I said when you have at least twenty or twenty to fifty comparable titles you’re gonna take an average of the Kindle price and average of the softcover price, and see where you come out you may even want to take a meet a mean and a low and a high and just really start to take a look at the range of books you’ll be competing with.

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Author and pop culture essayist Chuck Klosterman discussed Peter Watkins’s 1967 black comedy ‘Privilege’ at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s monthly Print Screen series.

Bridging the worlds of cinema and literature, the recurring series Print Screen invites our favorite authors to present films that complement and have inspired their work, with discussions and book signings to follow screenings.

To mark the recent release of But What If We’re Wrong? (Blue Rider Press), a collection of interviews with a variety of creative thinkers interwoven with the type of high-wire humor and nontraditional analysis only Chuck Klosterman would dare to attempt, the author joins us for a screening of Peter Watkins’s politically charged black comedy Privilege, followed by a conversation and book signing.

Klosterman is the best-selling author of seven nonfiction books (including Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and I Wear the Black Hat) and two novels (Downtown Owl and The Visible Man). He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ, Esquire, Spin, The Guardian, The Believer, Billboard, The A.V. Club, and ESPN. Klosterman served as the Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine for three years, appeared as himself in the LCD Soundsystem documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits, and was an original founder of the website Grantland with Bill Simmons.

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I had such an amazing time at BookExpo & BookCon, and got so many books! Let me know which ones you’re most anticipating, and which you’d most like to see reviews of. If you went to BookExpo or BookCon, what was the most exciting book you received?

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How To Become A Better Writer Episode #30. Top 10 Ways To Market Your Book Offline.

Marketing your book online is not the only way to sell books and build your brand. You should also focus your marketing efforts OFF LINE, meaning marketing locally and selling books in your own backyard.

Here are my Top 10 (or so) Ways To Market Your Books In Your Own Backyard.

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Tim Knox is a bestselling author of over a dozen books in the fiction and nonfiction genres, the ghostwriter of over 100 books, editor, author coach, and digital publishing expert.

TIM KNOX WEBSITES:
– http://findabookeditor.com
– http://timknox.com
– http://timknoxbooks.com
– http://entrepreneur-code.com
– http://interviewingauthors.com

SUBSCRIBE TO TIM’S YOUTUBE CHANNEL:
– https://www.youtube.com/user/timwknox

SOCIAL MEDIA:
– http://www.facebook.com/timwknox
– https://twitter.com/timknox
– https://www.linkedin.com/in/timwknox
– https://www.facebook.com/groups/ecode/
– https://www.facebook.com/interviewingauthors/
– https://www.facebook.com/timknoxbooks/

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This video is sponsored by MahoganyBooks.com.

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My 5 year old little boy’s favorite Usborne books!

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In this exclusive interview, I talk with Amazon Top 100 Best Selling Author Paul Rega about:
• How book cover design can make or break your success
• What Paul did to get free book ads on Bookbub
• How free book promotions can be detrimental to quality book reviews
• What the process is to create a historically-accurate nonfiction book
• How networking with other authors helped create his social media following
• And, so much more

For a detailed list of our discussion, click any of the timestamps below to learn more about what Paul shares in this self-publishing success story interview.

0:30 About Paul Rega the Amazon Top 100 Best Selling Author
1:07 Beginning of the self-publishing interview
2:05 How long ago did Paul Rega start in Kindle publishing? And, what brought Paul Rega into self-publishing books?
3:20 What went wrong with Paul’s first book, How to Find a Job When There Are No Jobs
4:46 How he used Bookbub ads for authors to market and promote his book
6:53 Why a high-quality book cover design and enticing book description make a difference
8:10 What is BookBub? How do Bookbub ads work now versus then?
10:30 Can authors use Bookbub repeatedly after the first run?
12:15 Are Bookbub ads worth it? Can you see a return on investment for using Bookbub for advertising your books?
13:07 Does Bookbub accept self-published books and traditionally published books?
15:55 What is the story behind Paul Rega’s Amazon top 100 best-selling book, Trail of 32? Paul shares the process of writing a historically accurate nonfiction book.
21:53 How does Paul create eye-catching book cover designs?
22:22 What was Paul’s book launch strategy for becoming an Amazon top 100 bestselling book?
24:27 Paul’s thoughts on bad book reviews and free book promotions
25:25 How many book sales does it take to become an Amazon bestselling author?
29:28 How Paul formed an author networking group and collaboratively created a trending hashtag #PDF1 on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
33:40 How Paul is writing a young adult fiction series
35:30 How you can find and reach Paul Rega
36:26 Paul’s advice for self-published authors and writers

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This book has a simple 4 step plan:
1. create 2. position 3. marketing 4. platform

Most creative people have trouble with #3, because they skipped the first two critical steps. If you know WHAT this book does and WHO it is for (benefits+audience+why that audience should CARE) then you’ll get WOM (word of mouth, which is the best marketing).

Unfortunately we’ve inherited an ideology of creative production which teaches us NOT to consider the market, but I think quality should depend on value (and value=how many OTHER people you can satisfy). But Ryan writes, if you want to make something that lasts, it has to resonate with people, and it’s easier to do that on purpose if you know your audience.

In other words GREAT work and POPULAR work are not mutually exclusive – great work is work that people love and share. So it’s easier to make Real Art if you target your audience. Then, spend time crafting a high quality product and positioning it to appeal to that audience (steps one and two) – that’s the best marketing.

After that, most book marketing stuff doesn’t work, especially oldschool stuff like media releases, TV and radio, billboards, etc – between giving your books away free or cheap to the right readers, and paying for advertising, Ryan argues for the former, and also stresses that nobody else can do your marketing for you, because only you can get them to care.

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