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How To Sell Fiction On Kindle. Marketing Your Ebook In Amazon's Ecosystem: A Guide For Kindle Publishing Authors. Kindle Edition

by Michael Alvear (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 184 ratings
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The Keyword Phrases In This Book Will Rank You Higher In Amazon's Search Engine Than Best Selling Fiction Authors Like Barry Eisler.



I’m going to show you examples, rock solid proof, that unknown authors used the keyword phrases in this book to rank higher than superstar authors like J.A. Konrath or Barry Eisler. You can start getting visibility today because...

This Book Marketing Guide Answers The Most Critical Question You Face As A Fiction Writer:
What keyword phrases should I use for my novel? I’m not going to show you how to find them. I’m going to tell you what they are. This Kindle selling book is quite literally an encyclopedia of keyword phrases that buyers type into Amazon’s search engine when they try to find books in your genre. It’s your biggest challenge answered: Discoverability.

Writing a Young Adult novel? Click on the “Young Adult” link in this Kindle selling book and it’ll take you to a list of keyword phrases people use to find YA books.

Writing a thriller? A romance? Same thing. My team of researchers pulled the keyword phrases directly out of Amazon’s “Leading Indicators.” Special Bonus! They include Amazon’s “Relative Importance” ranking, which shows you which keyword phrases are more likely to lead to a sale. Get excited! This is your ticket to huge sales!


Inside This Kindle Publishing Guide You Will Find The Most Effective Keyword Phrases For Books In:


• Romance
-Christian
-Contemporary
-Fantasy & Futuristic
-Historical Romance
-Paranormal
-Romantic Suspense
-Time Travel
-Vampires
-Westerns

• Fantasy
-Alternative History
-Contemporary
-Dark Fantasy
-Epic
-Historical
-Paranormal
-Urban

• Mystery & Thrillers
-Crime
-Mystery
-Police Procedurals
-Thrillers

• Horror
-Dark Fantasies
-Occult
-Ghosts

• And...
-Science Fiction
-Action Adventure
-Contemporary Fiction
-Erotica
-Literary Fiction
-Historical Fiction
-Christian Fiction
-Gay & Lesbian
-Medical
-Men’s Adventure
-Sea Adventures
-Sports
-War

How To Sell More Books On Amazon, Part Two.


Every book buyer goes through nine decision points on their way to a purchase. Will they click on your cover? Read your book description? Click on “Look Inside? Wince at your price? Read your reviews? I’m going to show you how you can influence each of the nine decision points so they result in a sale. This includes how to:

• Come up with clever, must-click titles.
• Create mesmerizing covers.
• Write a book description that ignites click lust.
• Use HTML to format your book description.
• Use the “look inside!” Feature to clinch the sale.
• Set the right price for your book.
• Get reviews that jump-starts sales.


About Michael Alvear
When I published my first books on Kindle, I’d check my anemic sales and let out a string of cuss words that made my dog blush. Then I developed my Attract•Engage•Convert strategy and sales took off.

As word got out that I sold over 100,000 ebooks, authors and publishers flocked to me for advice, attracted to the methodical ways I turned guerilla marketing tactics into stellar revenue. These strategies work for me, they work for my clients, and they will work for you. Believe in your books. Nobody believed in mine and now I make a great living as a writer. You can too by following my formula.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Woodpecker Media (April 10, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 10, 2013
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Rahul
5.0 out of 5 stars Fiction version of previous book delivers
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2013
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Michael Alvear says that you have to anticipate objections that buyer has. He didn't anticipate one objection that I had when I bought this book. Why should I buy it when I already shelled out money for  Make A Killing On Kindle (Without Blogging, Facebook Or Twitter). The Guerilla Marketer's Guide To Selling Ebooks On Amazon

Why did I still buy it?
1. I am a soon-to-be fiction writer. So I felt it would be relevant.
2. Price point. At less than a dollar, I couldn't go wrong.
And moreover this was from the author of Make a Killing on Kindle, one book that I really loved as it was chock-full of amazing info.

He says in the description that he will tell you what keyword phrases to use for the novel. He absolutely delivers on this. The website has a ton of keywords for each category. The ranking and keywords are worth getting this book.

Section Two and Three of this book is pretty much covered in his earlier book. Maybe it was because I had already read it, so I didnt find it as ground-breaking as his previous book. IF you haven't read Make a Killing then simply GRAB this book. You will find it a hands down winner.

Final thoughts: The strategies in either books are solid gold. Even if you have read Make a Killing, as a fiction writer you should go for this one as well. The keyword concept and the lists on his website are too good to pass.

UPDATE: 5/13/2013: I uploaded my book, used all 4k words in my Description as he suggested(still tweaking & testing). Added his magic tip about the fiction keywords in title. Used his strategies for Category selection & voila, my book hit #1 in both categories during the KDP free days. It is also showing in first page for one of my main keywords after returning to Paid status. There is a lot that still needs to be done (cover testing, competition reviewing, etc.), but I know which book I will be referring to again & again for my marketing success. If you have found my short overview helpful, let me know by saying Yes below.
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DianeReads
4.0 out of 5 stars simple and helpful
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2014
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This is a no nonsense guide to improving your book's discoverability and getting people through the sales funnel to click buy.

There is one note I want to make: I have now encountered in several different places the advice not to use Amazon's Author Central for your book description. Alvear also gives this advice. The reason is that Author Central allows a smaller word count and fewer html options to jazz up the page, and--here's the kicker--once you upload a description on Author Central, you can, according to advisers like Alvear, never go back to using the description field in KDP. The advise is FALSE. You absolutely can go back to the KDP description. I learned this the hard way.

First, unsure the advise was good, I called Author Central's support people. They were wonderfully helpful! First, the woman I spoke to, Lindsey, explained that I could use limited html via author central. Then, she said that she believed that if I uploaded a new description on KDP, that would supplant what was done in author central. Not believing her about the KDP issue, I did my best to use the limited html capabilities of author central, since I did not believe I had the option to use the greater flexibility of KDP. I saved my changes and was quite happy with them. Though they claim it will take 3-5 hours to show up on Amazon, within a few hours, I could see that the changes had gone live. Hooray!

Then I decided to take more of Alvear's advise to cut back on front and back matter so that readers using the "look inside" feature would get to my text quickly and so that readers getting to the end of the book would get to the "post a review" page quickly after the words "The End." I uploaded my new versions on KDP, leaving the same old ho-hum book descriptions in place, since I assumed that those would be ignored by Amazon in favor of the Author Central info.

Imagine my shock then, when I got the notice from KDP that my update books were live, and I saw that the crumby old book descriptions I had put in KDP ages ago had indeed replaced my carefully crafted descriptions, the very descriptions I labored on for hours just the day before via Author Central.

I logged in to Author Central and saw that the book description boxes had been filled with the KDP descriptions. I did not take any steps to make this happen. That means that YOU CAN INDEED GO BACK AND USE KDP EVEN IF YOU HAVE AT SOME POINT USED AUTHOR CENTRAL FROM YOUR BOOK DESCRIPTION.
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Katie Leone
5.0 out of 5 stars It's about time
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2013
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I've purchased countless books on marketing on Amazon and I noticed so many geared towards non-fiction that I thought perhaps the art of story telling was dead. Some of the advice was obvious. Some was over my head (html - I still have a headache thinking about it and wish someone would offer the service to put it together for me). But the section on keywords was what I was really looking for. The answer was so obvious that I overlooked it and I won't tell you what it is and cost some sales.

The only issue I had, and it might not be an issue, is the part about being sent to share on facebook and twitter at the end of books. But I am using a smartphone with a Kindle app and maybe that applies to real kindles so I will not deduct a star.

I wish there was a section on how to deal with those pesky 1 star reviews. I wrote a religious work and I got 1-star reviews because I quoted the Bible too much. I am being judged not on quality but because peoples ideologies don't match what I am saying. There has to be a way to combat this in a positive way.

But if you write fiction and have trouble finding your way on Amazon, this is the book. I've applied the concepts to only one of my seven books and saw an increase in sales (think of it as a controlled experiment). I will say this, though, don't expect this book to rocket you to number one if you don't produce decent work (I've seen complaints from people who spelled words wrong in their titles).

But thanks for writing this book. Can't wait for more.
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Amz Customer
3.0 out of 5 stars Algunos hacks son buenos, otros son inaplicables o absurdos
Reviewed in Spain on July 18, 2017
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Parte de la info es muy buena (cómo "tunear" la descripción de tu libro, cómo encontrar tus categorías, etc).
Sin embargo, la parte en la que te aconseja comprar reviews falsas para que califiquen tus libros con 5 estrellas sin siquiera haberlos leído, o poner reseñas negativas a tus competidores me parecen trucos antiéticos. Mis ventas, sinceramente, no han mejorado desde que apliqué (lo hice) todas las pautas que recomienda el autor. Posiblemente en el momento de ser escrito sus tácticas eran buenas, pero creo que ya no lo son.
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Irene Cuffe.
5.0 out of 5 stars The answer for every fiction writer and then some.
Reviewed in Australia on November 25, 2014
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As usual Mr. Alvear delivers an excellent, comprehensive book designed specifically to help fiction writers. A straight to the point, step by step, easy to understand book which covers everything I needed to feel more confident in going ahead to publish my own first effort.

There is an area of particular help to first time authors who may feel overwhelmed as they tread the path of the new indie-author.
There seems so much to learn, apart from the actual writing of the book itself ,that at times the journey becomes daunting.
Just when you are thinking that you will never get through the morass, one of the trail blazers pops up with the very book you have been looking for. Top marks to Michael Alvear, he leads the pack again with another top quality product.

Best regards,
Irene Cuffe.
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M A Logan
4.0 out of 5 stars A great read for a complex subject
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 27, 2013
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Michael writes well and in an interesting way. In fact I'd have given him five stars if it wasn't for the out of date information on Amazon's use of HTML. AS for the advice about the search engine and so on – I've given it a go and will see the impact in due course.

All in all a well structured and entertaining book.
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Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars A must for all who want to sell fiction on Kindle
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2013
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I bought this book because I wanted to heighten my awareness of ideas shared by other writers like my self.As an author of my first book EVENTIDE (Lost in Darkness)I wanted to see if the ideas within this book could help me raise my profile within the crowed market of my chosen filed, (Dark Fantasy, Vampires)What I liked about this book is how easy it was to understand his marketing tools, helps and tips. I would recommend it to all who want to take their work seriously. I gave it five stars because I feel his approach is well worth the money!
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BG
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read if you're going to take the plunge
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 12, 2020
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A really useful read with lots of insight into understanding the Amazon keyword ecosystem and how best to take advantage of it.
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