Reader, I guess those communal library boxes where people can pick up or leave a book do work… no idea how it got there other than as the result of getting almost 5,000 copies into the wild. “stumbled upon this at a park in Ohio…drop box” 3 Secrets1. Goodreads Giveaways continue to be one of the cheapest ways to seed copies right now to real people. Like clockwork, we’ve been running a standard ebook giveaway every 2 weeks – 200 free ebooks given away every month. At first, I was…

Reader, each year I might be lucky enough to have a top 10 life moment… this past week included at least 3 of the top 10 moments of my entire life. That’s because last week our Chief Marketing Scientist, Laura Russom, and I traveled to Franklin, TN to present about Amazon Ads to many of our lifelong heroes. The requirement to be in that room is to have sold over a million copies of your books. We’re pretty happy just to be at around 4,000 for Before The Bestseller. That said, we HAVE sold…