Numbers are steady. No rejections in the last few weeks so no additional queries. Maintaining ten out at any given time is the aim, because now that I am looking at active agencies, I need to make sure that I don’t query two people at the same house. I have a reference to an agent that I think is a higher percentage play than blind querying. I will query them when they open for queries again.
In the interim, I have met a second wizard. The last wizard referred me to this wizard. It was hard to find a single wizard, and now they are popping out of the woodwork.
Zach Jefferies took the self-published route, and he had a lot to teach me about that side of the business. I learned that amazon ads don’t really work, but can be a complimentary strategy. I learned his strategy for titles and artwork which I will be using in the future. There is much to learn.
Being self-published so far, with both my kindle novellas and my epic fantasy epic poem, what we talked about was highly relevant to me. I took a lot of notes in our conversation.
I think the biggest thing he advised for me was to start a newsletter. He said that was the best way to build an audience, and how he kept in contact with his audience. So that is the next goal on this journey for me. Create a newsletter and fill it with stuff. I’m not sure what I’ll put into it, but I will figure that out once I sort out how to make the mailing list.
Once again, thanks for reading,
Michael
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