Zbooks Successful Authors Podcast

I had the pleasure to interview Lise Cartwright last week: Lise is not only one of the hottest Freelancers in the Blogosphere right now, she is also a successful AUTHOR. She joined the Best Selling Book School and made a bestseller with her FIRST BOOK. Bestseller on the first try - one shot - one kill! Now that is a benchmark! http://ctt.ec/9Mn6a click to tweet! In this interview Lise reveals: How to start out your freelancing career, How to get your Upwork profile right, What's the most important thing for a newbie to focus on, Her book launching methods, Why she is going to the $.99 launch instead of free, Her book creation method (hint - mindmapping!) And... Have you noticed?There are no commercials or advertisements on this podcast! Please help keep the podcast free from annoying advertisements! Become a SUPREME MEMBER of this Podcast for as low as ONE dollar :-) https://gumroad.com/l/zbooks Learn Selfpublishing the right way - get my new book while it's still FREE! http://bit.ly/get-the-Power

I had the wonderful opportunity to interview Harald Johnson, a Historical Fiction MEISTER! Harald has many years of experience in so many topics, it's impossible to cover them here. Listen in as he unfolds the RICH History of New York, and at the same time, how to "do" Historical Fiction right. Harald has a depth of experience that I have rarely encountered before. From Marketing, to Design, and of course writing CAPTIVATING books (!) well...we will have to do another podcast to cover the rest! Topics Covered: · Bookbub ads · Marketing (media director?) · DPI vs Pixel mass/dimensions – Printing industry · The perfect Ebook cover dimensions · KDP select vs “going wide” · Traditional Publishing vs Independent Publishing (Hint: Indie Kicks Trad’s arsch!) · The Concept is NOT the premise · Amazon Ads (AMS: Amazon Marketing Services) · Pay Per Click Advertising · “Trickle” ads with minimum bids · Fiction vs Nonfiction characters · Outlining · Henry Hudson · East India Company vs West India Company · New Amstersdam vs New York · Dutch vs British colonists · Manahatta: The Island of Many Hills · Algonquin speaking Lenape Native American Indians · Jamestown · Beavers J · Swimming the Hudson! · Book promotion · Quora ads · The New World movie with Colin Farrell, Pocahontas (Q'orianka Kilcher) · Stephen King’s “11-22-63” · Split timelines · Ken Follett · Chapter length vs Scenes Enjoy this deep dive into everything from marketing books to Pocahontas!

How do you become an Influential Author? Gregory Diehl has traveled more countries than Tim Ferriss AND has been dominating the Business Categories of Amazon.com for over 1 year. Listen in as Eric Z gets the full report from our Traveling Influential Author!

This started out as a book cover A-B-C test and quickly wound up a #1 thanks to KdpRocket! STEPS: Step 1.) Publish Your Book on KDP Step 2.) Search for categories for your book with KDPROCKET Step 3.) Choose the BEST 10 categories for your book Step 4.) Start a help ticket with Amazon/KDP and ask them to add your book to those 10 categories... Step 5.) BOOM! Better rankings guaranteed ;-) *You would be supporting me if you used my affiliate link to BUY KDPROCKET:* You can see the books here: http://geni.us/monsterAliens (remember that -zon updates the ratings HOURLY) About Step 3: Because I made this video very quickly, I want to explain step 3 again...better: I had previously published a book in this series as a PERMA-FREE book. And these 3 books are also FREE. In the spreadsheet from KdpRocket, it shows the "ABSR" = Amazon Book Sales Rank... i.e. the PAID book sales rank. KdpRocket shows you the sales rank of the #1 book in the category, AND the #20 book in the category. The #2