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It's been a big week.

Oct 08, 2024

Bookfunnel news first:

Insight is gained in the doing. I thought I’d made a mistake with our first Bookfunnel-centered promotion by opening it to both Romance and Children’s Books. Once it started, 90% of the children’s authors fled. Their loss. Our one children’s author is doing very well. The Romance audience seems very willing to spread out into new territories, and all our participating authors have been growing well.

Here’s the surprising twist, we’re getting a better response than almost all of the Romance books.

And with recent events having been what they are, I haven’t even told you that we’re now running three promotions with a fourth starting tomorrow and fifth in a few days.

IMPORTANT: Your links are at the bottom of the article. Please share.

The idea is to have some general promotions and some focused ones. Don’t expect to be in every promotion.

URGENT: If you’re a guest of our Bookfunnel promotion and don’t want to lose your spot, be sure to reach out to me so we can sign you up.

The response has been strong, but ironically, we’re back in the same situation. With each upgrade, I have only so many Bookfunnel spots available. When I have spots free, I’ll rotate in people from Bookmotion, but I’m running our of spots again. Reach out to me as soon as you can.

With the response being as big as it is, it will take a few days to make all the changes.

Bookmotion news:

The new site is up and running at Bookmotion.pro. If you’ve sent books or upgraded to Bookfunnel management, I’ll make the changes as soon as I can. (Bookfunnel clients get a bigger spread at Bookmotion.)

Also, thanks to an angel who decided to help fund our launch, we are now financially ready to begin our ad run!

Thank you, angel!

Bookmotion needs to grow its author list by a factor of 5, but we can start advertising like we’ve already reached that number.

If you have any wisdom or resources to share on running ads, let me know in the comments.

Let me know if you have a PayHip Bookstore or are otherwise able to collect your own email addresses.

Each author is allowed one book on Bookmotion, except in two situations.

First, if you’re a Bookfunnel client, you can have up to three reader magnets. (Reader magnets only. (I can enter all 3 books in promotions, too.)

Second, if you have the ability to host you own books and collect your own emails, Bookmotion can direct readers to your bookstore for fulfillment. This gives you the chance to cross-sell other books. You also can have up to three book (only three total, this isn’t cumulative) and up to two of them can be for sale.

Want to Join Us?

First, make sure you’ve subscribed to Literary Salon. You can subscribe for free and I’ll upgrade you. This is important because Bookmotion and Bookfunnel are not profit-run operations. The money that comes in is used for promotion and advertising costs. When you’re free Founder’s Level membership comes due for renewal, that’s how I’ll make money off of this. You have to be a subscriber to participate.

The free upgrade means you have plenty of time to decide if it’s worth it. The Founding-Level Subscription is $50 a year.

Or, you can come in as a paid subscriber at the Founding Level right away (or pay at any point) to make sure you don’t miss the renewal email. I’ll still comp you the extra months.

To become a Bookfunnel client, reach out to me. A DM on Bookfunnel is best.

To join Bookmotion, you can click here.

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The $5 Plan: five dollars every month.

The Yearly Plan: $50 for the year.

Bookfunnel Management: $80 a year. Availability limited. Contact me for information. You cannot sign up for this feature unless I send you the enrollment form personally.

To join Bookmotion, you can click here.

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