There are many things you must do
properly to sell your books. Let’s dig
in on how to master 12 steps to draw
readers today.
1. Write quality content. Your content
has to be free of typos and grammatical
errors. Also, it must be well-structured
and pleasant to read.
2. Ensure clarity. Make sure readers will
understand what’s happening throughout
your book. A great way to do this is to have
a smooth transition between every scene,
particularly if you’re writing a fiction story.
3. Proofread. After you finish writing the
book, carefully read over everything you
wrote or have someone else do it. When I
proofread my works, I painstakingly look
for errors, make sure I understand what I
just read in each paragraph, make sure no
paragraph is too long and make sure all
paragraphs are double-spaced.
4. Edit. Correct each error you or someone
else finds during the proofreading stage.
5. Have a good book cover. Your cover must
look attractive. If you’re self-publishing
your book and want to handle the cover
yourself, please use Pixabay – they provide
quality images you may use for personal or
commercial use.
6. Write powerful blurbs for fiction books.
You can write well plus have a solid title and
cover for your fiction book but it likely won’t
do you any good unless you write a powerful
blurb that is sure to prevent readers from
bolting to the next book on sale.
Strive to have at least four to five short but
powerful paragraphs that are likely to build
up enough intrigue; pay attention to the
back covers of traditionally published books.
I have learned a lot about writing powerful
fiction blurbs through ‘Fiction Blurbs: The
Best Page Forward Way’ by Phoebe J.
Ravencraft and Bryan Cohen.
7. Keep in mind the probability of a
preview for your book. Amazon provides
a “look inside the book” preview feature
for all books. If I see the book is full of
long, single-spaced paragraphs or I
become confused about what’s happening
in the book while reading the preview, I
won’t buy the book.
8. Promote your books rather than letting
the market take care of everything for you.
If you don’t promote or market what you
produce, people can’t find your works.
Participate in online forums and other
outlets relevant to what you write – make
sure not to spam your books or website.
Use social media and book promotion
sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Entire
Web, Robin Reads, Fussy Librarian and
Book Bongo.
9. Frequently look at all your author
website pages in their entirety.
• The primary reason you need to do this is
you have to test all your links to make sure
they’re working properly, as broken links
will persuade your visitors to go elsewhere
before they get a chance to look at your
books; plus, having broken links and a high
bounce rate can hurt you in the search
engine rankings.
• The secondary reason you need to go
through your site is you need to see how your
site reads. It may take several visits to catch
whether your paragraphs are too long, you
need more bullets, your font size is too tiny
or huge, you have too many H1 tags on some
of your pages, etc.
10. Frequently present fresh content on
your website. Writing new information and
making major or minor changes on your
home page and some of your secondary
pages satisfies the search engines. More
importantly, it signals to visitors that you’re
active and invested; therefore, they’re more
likely to return and eventually make a
purchase.
11. Read the reports you get from analytics
services you choose to use such as Monster
Insights, Google Analytics and Rank Math
at least once a week. Studying the analysis
on your visitor site page entrances and
exits, your site search engine optimization
content score and more will reveal the
improvements you must make to attract
more visitors to your site and keep them
there long enough for them to check out
your written works.
12. The last component of how to master
12 steps to draw readers today is to read
many books. The more you read, the
better of an author you should become,
which should help you sell more books.
The recommendations listed above are key
things to do as an author. Adhere to them to
master 12 steps to draw readers today. To
learn a lot more about having author success,
