Ever follow another author's book marketing advice, put in all the work, and wonder why you're not seeing the same results?

It's easy to feel like you're missing something when everyone seems to have a different answer about what you should be doing to sell more books. But what if the advice you've been following isn't necessarily wrong? What if it just isn't right for YOU?

In this episode, we're talking about how to stop second-guessing your marketing decisions, tune out the noise, and finally feel more confident about where you're spending your time and energy.

FREE Book Marketing Blueprint

You know you should be talking about your book before it’s published. But what do you say when the release is still weeks away and you don’t want to sound repetitive, salesy, or like you’re forcing people to care too soon?

In this episode, Jenn will show you how to think about your pre-publication content so it builds interest naturally and gives the right readers a reason to keep paying attention long before launch day.

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Episode 120: "How to Identify Your Ideal Reader When No One Has Read Your Book"

New Author Marketing Playbook

You launched your book, checked the numbers, and felt that sinking feeling: this is not what I hoped would happen. Before you decide the launch was a failure or start changing everything, there’s something important to remember. Your book’s future is not decided in launch week. In this episode, we’re talking about what comes next, how to think about disappointing launch results, and why your book may have far more life ahead of it than you realize.

90-Day Book Sales System

FREE Book Marketing Blueprint

If you’ve been told you need to know your “ideal reader” before you can market your book, but you barely have any readers yet, that advice can feel impossible to use. In this episode, Jenn breaks down what an ideal reader actually is, why it doesn’t need to be complicated, and how thinking about one specific person can make your book marketing feel much easier and more natural. If you’ve ever sat down to write a post, email, or book description and had no idea what to say, this episode will help.

New Author Marketing Playbook

FREE Book Marketing Blueprint

If you’ve been staring at your Amazon page wondering how you’re supposed to get more book reviews without pestering readers, paying for them, or accidentally crossing one of Amazon’s rules, this episode is for you. Because the answer isn’t to chase harder or give away more copies and hope for the best. There’s a much smarter way to build legitimate reviews over time, and it starts with changing what you’re focusing on in the first place.

FREE Book Marketing Blueprint

If you write fiction, you’ve probably heard book marketing advice that sounds like it was made for a business author. And if you write nonfiction, you’ve probably looked at BookTok-style marketing and wondered how any of it applies to you. The truth is, fiction and nonfiction book marketing aren’t completely different, but the reason readers buy is. In this episode, Jenn breaks down the distinction that makes marketing advice much easier to evaluate, so you can stop copying tactics that don’t fit your book and start marketing in a way that makes sense for the readers you actually want to reach.

90-Day Book Sales System

If your book sales are slow, it’s easy to assume the answer is more visibility and start wondering whether Amazon Ads, Facebook ads, or paid book promotion will finally get things moving. But before you spend a dollar on ads, there’s one question you need to answer first: what are the readers who already find your book doing next?

In this episode, Jenn explains how to tell whether you truly have a visibility problem or whether something else in your book marketing is stopping readers before they buy. If you’ve been trying to sell more books, grow your audience, improve your book sales, or figure out whether paid advertising is worth it, this episode will help you make a much smarter decision before putting money behind your marketing.

90-Day Book Sales System

FREE Book Marketing Blueprint

If the thought of marketing your book makes you feel like you have to turn your personal life into content, this episode is for you. You do not need to become a personal brand, share your family, show your face constantly, or give readers unlimited access to your life to market your book successfully. Jenn breaks down how authors can build a recognizable, trustworthy author brand by focusing on the reader, the book, and the ideas or emotional experience surrounding it. If you’ve been searching for how to market a book without social media burnout, how to sell books without sharing your personal life, or how to build an author platform while staying private, this episode will show you what to do instead.

FREE Book Marketing Blueprint

90-Day Book Sales System