Tag: BookBub

Posted on

Listen! Professor Molly Audiobooks up to 80% off

Discounted for a limited time

Get these deals through March 12, 2021 at Chirp, BookBub’s audiobook platform.

Title
The Case of the Defunct Adjunct

A twisty campus mystery! Professor Kent Lovely is Mahina State University’s resident creep — or he was, until he collapsed face-first into his cheesecake. Now the faculty summer retreat is a crime scene, and Professor Molly Barda must do everything she can to clear her innocent friend Emma’s name… before it’s too late.

9.95 1.99
Title
The Musubi Murder

Professor Molly just wants to stay out of trouble until she gets tenure at Mahina State University (“Where Your Future Begins Tomorrow!”). But when the college’s biggest donor, a local lunch-shop tycoon, vanishes, Molly’s dean orders her to find him before his check bounces. Will snooping around and stirring up old secrets land Molly in the soup?

9.95 1.99
Title
Trust Fall

It’s another faculty retreat at Mahina State University. Professor Molly struggles to stay awake. Her best friend Dr. Emma Nakamura does her best not to throttle anyone (a particular challenge in the case of newbie know-it-all Kyle Stockhausen). But then the Trust Fall exercise goes horribly wrong. Is it murder? Or just the worst meeting of the semester?

2.95 .99

Posted on

Is BookBub worth it? (And other surprises in my author journey)

Here are my reflections on what marketing tactics have and have not worked for me.
The publishing industry is changing so quickly that business plans become obsolete almost as soon as they’re written.
My conclusion? Community is everything. Authors have to help one another. And the “sure things” aren’t, necessarily.

KEEP UP WITH PROMOTIONS, EVENTS, AND NEW RELEASES:

Blog  | Facebook  | GoodReads | LinkedIn | Twitter | Mailing List
Posted on

Uh-oh. I just discovered BookBub.

Graphics from freepik.com

It has three million subscribers and growing.  @JimKukral and Bryan Cohen (@bryancohenbooks) of the Sell More Books Podcast have a running joke about all of the free advertising they do for BookBub on their show.

What is it? Basically, it’s an author’s dream mailing list. BookBub sends notice of free or discounted ebooks to its database of eager readers. The catch for authors, and the reason readers love it? They’re very selective about which books they’ll promote. You can’t just go in waving your money at them and expect that they’ll promote your ebook.

At this time, I don’t have the option of participating as an author. I won’t have an ebook out for a while, and when I do, any price promotions will be at the discretion of my publisher. So I’ve been watching BookBub’s increasing popularity with sort of a distant interest, admiring their focus and discipline (how tempting it must be to increase income in the short term by accepting more books!)

Well, today I thought I’d see what it was like to be on the other side, and signed up to be on BookBub’s mailing list. It took about ten seconds. And then I had a look at all of the ebooks on offer.

Holy kazoo.

There are so many books. Books with hundreds of five-star reviews. Books with awards.

Many of them are free. And I can download them RIGHT NOW.

So yes, I should be writing, or, um, doing my day job. Instead of downloading books like this and this and this and this and this. And more, much more. Hours and hours of free reading pleasure.

For the record, I’m not goofing off. I am researching promotional strategies in the publishing industry.

Be the first to learn about promotions, events, and new releases: SignUp