Hello Rebels, welcome to episode 146 of The Rebel Author Podcast. Today, I’m talking to Monica Leonelle about how to sell more books.
In this episode we cover:
- What genres are better suited to being wide vs in KU
- Best methods for managing all the distributors
- How to grow your audience wide
- Different approaches for different platforms
This week’s question is: what kind of research do you do for your books?
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What kind of research do you do for your books?
I once heard Canadian Sci-fi author Robert J. Sawyer say that writing was how justified his research habit. I am, by profession, a researcher, but the amount of research I have had to do for my WIP (five years, two drafts, and counting 🙁 ), is probably more than I did during my PhD.
My research has run the gamut from the natural history of certain predators to Buddhist burial practices to the transition zone between subtropical and temperate forests in the Himalayas to poring over the Google Earth map of Khabarovsk, Russia in obsessive detail. I’ve also read widely outside of my speculative fiction/ eco-fiction genre, including thrillers, classic works of natural history (The Peregrine by J.A. Baker; read it!) mysteries, literary fiction, and a journalistic memoir of the Vietnam War (Dispatches by Michael Herr; read that too!)
Needless to say, none of this makes for a draft that could be written within the space of NanoWriMo