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Welcome to Paul's Podcast Diary for Saturday 3rd February, 2018.
This diary charts my self-publishing journey – the ups the downs, the successes and the failures.
Everything goes into this diary, week-by-week, but you'll also find it a source of great tips, resources, tools, podcast recommendations and so on.
If I ever miss something out, or you'd like more information, just drop me an email at paul@paulteague.com.
This Week's Talking Points
1) This week's word count:
2) Oh look, it's another Goodreads giveaway!
3) This is what my Kindle Nation Daily ad looked like:
4) My first promo ran from May 4th:
4th: $37.39
5th: $46.30
6th: $57.47
7th: $35.64
8th: $26.40
9th: $41.59
= $244.79
Here are the numbers from last week’s promo … I thought the numbers were worse, but they’re actually much better:
25th: $106.45
26th: $103.26
27th: $71.56
28th: $43.40
29th: $102.30
30th: $74.27
= $501.24
5) My new style email: http://preview.mailerlite.com/q0s8v8/814542352654799867/o2o7/
28% open rate
Subject line: Why I'm the world's worst email writer …
12% open rate
Subject line: I've changed my ways and this is the result …
6) Lori Puma article: http://loripuma.com/blog/podcasts-help-you-write-publish-and-promote-your-first-novel-in-2018
7) Staunch Book Prize http://staunchbookprize.com/
8) From Twitter this week:
🌟Listening to this week's PPD while signing up to @PaulTeagueUK newsletter!! 🙂 🙂 #amwriting pic.twitter.com/n8F3GIIFiW
— Pip Reid (@pip_dumbill) January 27, 2018
Congratulations! I look forward to your diaries and your interviews every week 🙂 This is where I listened to your diary today, in Bedfordshire, just before the rain… pic.twitter.com/FjxpK1zxTU
— Julie Stock (@wood_beez48) January 29, 2018
Health issues mean no trips to the bunny rescue until I get through the next battery of tests but here are some of our house bunnies pic.twitter.com/WWzLuJngXk
— Edwin Downward (@edwindownward) January 29, 2018
This Week’s Self-Publishing News
The Alliance of Independent Authors news update: https://selfpublishingadvice.org/self-publishing-news-direct-publishing-platforms-get-a-makeover/