Comments on: Lessons Learned from Ten Months of Direct Sales Book Distribution https://sachablack.co.uk/2025/11/26/lessons-learned-from-ten-months-of-direct-sales-book-distribution/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lessons-learned-from-ten-months-of-direct-sales-book-distribution Books, Business and Bad Words Fri, 19 Dec 2025 04:12:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Maurllan https://sachablack.co.uk/2025/11/26/lessons-learned-from-ten-months-of-direct-sales-book-distribution/comment-page-1/#comment-67263 Fri, 19 Dec 2025 04:12:37 +0000 https://sachablack.co.uk/?p=12769#comment-67263 I listened to The Creative Penn episode #840 three times in succession on December 15, then listened to the episode again three days later. Later in the day, I listened the Lessons Learned episode here. I plan to listen to #840 again.

I absolutely agree exclusivity is a key for a direct sales site: I removed my products from Ingram Spark and Amazon at the beginning of 2025.

The other key is even more important and the insight isn’t discussed much, if ever, in the indie author hustle economy community in recent years: you must have products.

Not just a backlist of books; a professional writer must write enough books to begin writing books readers are spellbound by.

Which, on average, turns out to be about 28 books — then we start to see the author hit her financial stride.

It’s a topic Sacha and Joanna emphasize in episode #840 and which Sacha touches on here as Protecting Writing Time and Schedules are a bitch: keep writing books.

But Sacha mentions another key insight in #840: in 2013, setting an intention to write books which sell.

The emphasis shifts to intentionally developing writing Craft.

Do you find intentionally developing Craft accelerates the curve for a hippity-hop financial stride?

Thanks for sharing the two kick-ass episodes!

Timely and important.

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