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• Five tips to boost your book sales on the web

  Instead of stacking rejection slips by touting your manuscript around agents and traditional publishing houses, a podding agreement will let a publisher take your manuscript, edit and format the text ready for firing out paperback or hardback copies as soon as the orders come in.
  
  DragonCub (http://www.dragoncub.com/books/index... will also help with marketing the book, but because DragonCub cuts the overheads, you earn a bigger royalty on each sale.
  You can also help yourself sell more books online with these five simple steps:
  
  1. Team up with a podding partner like DragonCub (http://www.dragoncub.com/books/index...
  
  2. Set up a website – call the site <yourbooktitle>.com. This is easy to do with a blogging tool called WordPress. Then, write one or two articles a week for your blog linking to your book page on the podding site.
  
  3. Let people know about your blog by setting up accounts on social networking sites – the type of site depend on your readers.
  
  4. Join forums and online communities that specialise in your niche and offer free articles based on snippets of your book in return for links back to your site or your book sales page.
  
  5. Politely ask any readers who comment on your book to post their comments on your book sales page. Reader recommendations are valuable resources that drive sales.
  
  The objective is to raise the profile of your book by raising your profile on the internet. Every site that carries one of your articles, blogs or comments with a link back to your sales page makes your book easier to find for interested readers.
  
  Your readers are out there – you just need to team up with online publishing experts like DragonCub (http://www.dragoncub.com/books/index... to help you find them.

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• Writers: join the ‘podding’ revolution

  If you’ve written a book and are looking to go in to print, then consider ‘podding’ with a publisher who will show you how to make money-selling books online.
  
  ‘Podding’ means teaming up with one of the new breed of ‘print-on-demand’ publishers like Dragoncub (http://www.dragoncub.com/books/index..., who can take a manuscript, edit and format the content quickly and efficiently and have your book ready to print and ship as soon as an order comes in.
  
  Authors can cut overheads and keep a larger slice of the royalties and their rights to the content as a POD publisher only takes a percentage of the retail price to cover printing, marketing and distribution costs.
  
  Online book sale websites such as DragonCub.com offer a broad selling base. They also have access to other distribution channels that reach thousands of retailers, like high street stores, libraries and other online merchants. For instance Dragoncub at (http://www.dragoncub.com/books/index..., you can set your own retail price – you keep 80% of the selling price, which is a far higher royalty than you would earn from a traditional sales merchant. If you decide to sell a hard back for £12.99, as the author you will collect £10.39 from each sale without having to repay any advance on royalties.
  
  Dragoncub (http://www.dragoncub.com/books/index... sells books in more than 40 categories for children and adults and if you are a first-time or a published author, offers a fast and inexpensive way to put your book in front of your readers.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• WRITE THAT BOOK

  “Procrastination is the ultimate laziness,” said Dr Johnson. He wasn’t kidding. So stop procrastinating and write that book. Plan the story first. Ten chapters should suffice for a short story or novel. More chapters can be added later. Draft a rough outline of each chapter in four to five lines. Only jot down the key elements. This provides a useful starting point to work from.
  
  Develop a sales pitch/blurb to the editor to promote the story. This adds impetus to story writing and inspiration for the synopsis.
  
  “Yes, I can write but it’s not good enough to publish.” Funnily, many good writers have said this, but admit, other published literature isn’t half as good as the stuff they’ve penned themselves. Abolish this negative idea, otherwise nothing will ever materialise. So get it down on paper or if working on a computer, saved as a Word file. Don’t worry about correct grammar, at the first draft stage. Creativity is the key thing. It’s better to edit text on completion of the story. In most cases, a second re-write is vastly superior.
  
  When writing, start the story with a thunderclap phrase to hook the reader from the word go. Don’t begin with a drab sentence like:
  Strange as it may seem, the other day… This waffles and won’t snare a reader.
  
  Instead, begin with something like:
  I could have died when… This is far better and dramatic.
  
  Give the story a mission. What is the hero or heroine’s goal? How do events affect the characters? Find out how to develop gripping narrative and dialogue. Real life experience helps to portray incidents. For instance, having a baby, facing up to an operation or involvement in a road accident. Research for technical accuracy to add realism. If writing a story set in the past, find out what everyday life was like. How did people travel, what did they earn, what did they eat etc.
  
  Completion of a story is incredibly rewarding, so write that book, now.
  

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