If you, like me, have been having trouble categorizing your book in order to get better visibility for sells, this link might help.  I was using random keywords related to highlights of my book, but not coming up well in searches.

KEYWORDS

I had enormous difficulty in getting the correct keywords through KDP for visibility until I ran across this rather obscure piece on KDP’s site.  I was using all the wrong keywords.  The keywords that I was using were all related to my book, but they were NOT the specifically programed words and phrases that Amazon uses.  I was barely able to find my book in search results until I ran across this page.  Now, I have sold more books in the past two weeks than I had in the past two months, just by getting these correct keywords into place.

It seems that Amazon has specific keywords programmed 

Read Tuesday is the brainchild of Chris McMullen, who is a pretty smart guy in terms of marketing and sales.

The idea is to use crowdmarketing (is that a word?  should it be a word?) to create a shopping day specifically for self-published e-books.  Since we all tend to act as our own marketing departments, he figured we could all work together to build buzz for e-books as a gift idea, and we would all benefit.

I think it’s a great idea.  Kind of like the Black Friday thing that major retailers do, only this is more like when a bunch of families get together and have one huge yard sale in the parking lot of a church.

The time to start building buzz on this is now (yes, I know that it isn’t even Halloween yet, but momentum takes time to build.)

He has started working on…

I was writing a short piece in Microsoft Word and a squiggly line appeared. I knew the word was spelled correctly but Microsoft was telling me otherwise. I quickly realized Word was trying to make my character American. No! Word, my character is British and his vocabulary shan’t be spelt differently.

So what type of spelling should you choose? Well, if you do not have a specific style guide that specifies what you should be using, I recommend knowing your audience and staying consistent. If your audience is mainly American, you may come off trite if you are using the British spelling; or, if you are looking to write for a broader community of people than I recommend using the UK spelling. Whatever you choose to use, it’s best to stay consistent.

Top 15 of my Favorite Vs. Spellings

UK to US

• Aluminium → Aluminum
• Artefact → Artifact
• Colour →…