Marketing, Metadata & Positioning
Genre positioning, Amazon categories, and how to pitch the distributors indie-friendly enough to answer.
A Submission Calendar for Literary Awards
Most debut novelists learn which awards matter — and which ones close their windows — by missing them. You don't have to.
Genre Positioning
"My novel doesn't fit a category" sounds like artistic integrity. To agents and readers, it sounds like a book that doesn't know what it's offering.
Amazon Categories and Keywords: How Readers Find Books
Is your Amazon metadata actually helping readers find your book — or quietly teaching the algorithm to recommend it to the wrong people?