UPDATE: November 11—Secret Advice for Writers just hit #1 in its category in the Kindle Free Store. Fiction and Stories are now #15 and #16 in their category in the Paid Store.
FINALLY!
It’s been five and a half years since we first published The Art & Craft of Fiction: A Practitioner’s Manual.
A year later we published The Art & Craft of Story: 2nd Practitioner’s Manual.
And ever since, I’ve been busy editing.
But. . .this past year I began hearing of an amazing new movement in the self-publishing industry: a brilliant system for connecting readers with the self-published books they love—a system that really works.
This system was just pioneered last year by Nick Stephenson and Mark Dawson, and it is awesome.
I spent all summer studying their system, involved in their courses, learning how to do what they do. Because Nick and Mark have cracked the code that’s transforming the self-publishing industry from a toddler staggering drunkenly across the landscape, largely dependent still upon the distribution networks of the traditional publishers, into the new wave of fiction following in the venerable footsteps of the 1930s genre revolution of the drugstore paperback.
Our time has come.
So we at La Favorita Press have just this week done two things:
1) Re-issued Fiction and Story under slightly-altered titles to be better referenced by the online bookseller referral engines:
Art & Craft of Writing Fiction: First Writer’s Manual
Art & Craft of Writing Stories: Second Writer’s Manual
Fiction and Stories are now priced permanently as ebooks at $3.99 and in paperback at $19.95/$17.98 (unless you have Amazon Prime, in which case they’re free).
2) Published two new books:
Art & Craft of Writing: Secret Advice for Writers
Art & Craft of Writing: Favorite Advice for Writers
And the kicker to Secret and Favorite?
They’re FREE.
Why?
Because this is the system that Nick and Mark teach:
*) offer your first book permafree through the online booksellers (and, of course, your website)
*) include in that book a link to your new email list, which list we’re calling here “Art & Craft of Writing”
*) give away your second book free to everyone who subscribes to your list
In this way, we can easily find the readers who want my work, and they can find me. From now on, we know exactly whom to notify whenever we publish a new book on the Art & Craft of Writing. This email list is solely for this one purpose—no blog-type ‘newsletter’ filling your inbox, no reminders to buy, no hovering or pestering. Just the information you want whenever we publish each new book, and otherwise polite radio-silence. Because we know you’re busy.
So now you can go get your free copy of Secret Advice for Writers and sign up for the Art & Craft of Writing list through the link in the book.
Such excitement to have you along for this new adventure—I’m so looking forward to meeting every one of you!
Because our time has come.