Discoverability According to Mark Coker

Personal Notes:  After sharing Hugh Howey's thoughts about the word discoverability, let me give you Mark Coker's. I was reading a blog from Musetracks sharing Mark's advice to Indie authors. It is amazing the founder of Smashwords seems to be unstoppable creating new ideas on how to get readers' attention in favor of my fellow Indie authors who hope someday their book will be discovered.

An E-book authored by Mark Coker

Here are the 15 Best Practices the Indie authors must apply in order to get discovered. There is no guaranty, so to speak, that you'll be successful if you practice what he says. These are purely guidance on how to reach readers.

1) Write a fantastic book.

2) Create a great cover. I agree, you'll be judged by readers with your e-book cover.

3) A no-brainer, but warrants repeating. Write another super awesome book.

4) Give some books away for free. By doing this, you eliminate the financial risk new readers face. 

5) Patience, it's a virtue.  

6) Maximize availability. (May be the best words for this: Don't get the KDP Select deal?) 

7) Build a platform. It simply means you engage with readers using social media tools, wisely. 

8) Architect for "virality". "Spread the germ." Mark points out about the virtue of "word-of-mouth" as the most powerful way to discoverability. 

9) Unit volume is a lever of success. He said "Every book sale has two benefits: money and new readers.

10)Don't worry about piracy. Obscurity is the bigger risk.

11)Take advantage of Pre-orders.

12)Practice partnership and positivity. The great example he said is if you discover something that works well, share it with others.

13)Collaborate with fellow authors. This is important,too. So you better think of Googling out writers' communities. I, myself is a member of a dozen of writers' communities on Google+.

14)Think globally. When you're an Indie author, you must think globally.

15)You are running a business. Business requires a profit. Never borrow money to publish a book.

Well folks, to get full access of this source, just click the link below. Or you can download his e-book for free.

http://musetracks.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/best-practices-for-ebook-publishing-with-mark-coker-of-smashwords/

I will continue to devote my succeeding blogs (Personal Notes) about discoverability. But of course, I would like to bring you this Barry Eisler's John Rain novel Redemption Games.

Synopsis Lounge presents...

Redemption Games (A John Rain Novel)
Barry Eisler

Previously published as Killing Rain and One Last Kill

After nearly dying while taking out a target in Hong Kong, Rain has a new employer, the Mossad, which wants him to fix a "problem" in Manila. He also has a new partner, Dox, whose good-ol'-boy persona masks a sniper as deadly as Rain himself. And he has a new hope: that by using his talents in the service of something good, he might atone for all the lives he has taken. But when Rain's conscience causes him to botch the Manila hit, he finds out the next problem the Mossad wants fixed is himself. Is Delilah, his Mossad lover, coming to help him? Or was she sent to finish him off?

"Exhilarating... Eisler unspools a plot full of warring secret government connections, cool spy paraphernalia, and vivid martial-arts sequences."
--Entertainment Weekly

PERSONAL NOTES : I will release soon my first ever fan fiction short story on Kindle Worlds under John Rain Canon; John Rain: Rampage in Manila... I will do my best to release this month.