Trust me, I’ve been there. In fact I’ve been there more times than I care to even think about.
I had sold some books on Kindle, so I knew it was possible to make some money. The problem was that the number of books I was shifting each month was, shall we say, limited. Each book could probably feed my cat for a week, but certainly not enough to allow me to quit my day job and, dreaming even further down the line, actually allow me the financial freedom to do as I wished.
I’d written books on a wide range of topics: self help books, cook books, biographies, children’s books, how-to guides, comedy and everything in-between.
They were good!
And yes, everything sold something! But it wasn’t enough for my efforts and input.
I bet that you are just the same. You seem to have tried everything, you manage to sell a few copies but the sales aren’t where you would like.
I was looking at my list of books and then the idea hit me: FICTION. I haven’t tried fiction.
Fiction far outstrips the non-fiction sales on Amazon. Don’t believe me? Have a look at the top one hundred selling books on Amazon.com. When I did this exercise, do you know how many of the top selling 100 titles were non-fiction? Just 8. So 92% of the top selling titles were fiction pieces.
So why was I wasting my time with crappy cookery books that no-one wanted to buy?