Getting on the bestseller list

Sargentodiaz · Mar 9, 2014

This comes from the Always Writing blog @ http://neilostroff.blogspot.com/2014/03/getting-on-bestseller-list.html and really hits home. This excerpt really hits home and is the hardest part of being a writer. It takes work and is most frustrating.

It takes a lot of time to plug in marketing information, time that takes away from writing that next book. It’s true that word-of-mouth is by far the biggest seller of books, but it seems that with the internet and worldwide exposure, that word-of-mouth can get lost in the chatter of so many new books. I may never hit the Amazon bestseller list again (hopefully I will) but it was certainly a boost to my writer’s ego to know that for a brief time I was ranked right up there beside such great writers as Ann Rice, Stephen King, and Suzanne Collins. It made all the years spent weaving my tales worth it

You got any better recommendations?

Old Hack · Mar 10, 2014

TripleCappuccino · Apr 4, 2014

My advice is to make a good book.

RhodaD'Ettore · May 2, 2014

it seems the best way is to interact with people. I hate this concept. Because lets face it, if we all get to know each other here, and you like me, you may read/buy my book. But was it sold because of my writing quality or because of my personality? I couldn't care less what people think of me as a person--or if they think im pretty, etc...

What i want to know is if they enjoyed it. And if they didn't, well then they probably have no sense of humor. LOL

Old Hack · May 2, 2014

I think the best way is to write a really good book; and then write another, and another, and another.

A few of the books I've written have reached the best-seller lists now. And yet I've not done anything to promote them. I've never done a signing, or a book tour, or written a blog article about them: nothing.

Getting on the bestseller list

Sargentodiaz

Old Hack

Such a nasty woman

TripleCappuccino

RhodaD'Ettore

Old Hack

Such a nasty woman