Make A Living From Your Books ft. Bink Cummings (EP#578)
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Bink Cummings is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of dark motorcycle club romance. 🏍️ She has made a living from her books since book one, 12 years ago, and book 37 is about to release. In this episode of the SPA Girls Podcast (EP578) Bink explains how to sell more books with a dollar-a-day ad, why box sets are her two top earners, and how free first-in-series books keep bringing in new readers. 💰
She also shares what she would do right now if sales were slow : Read your reviews for the comment that keeps coming up. Refresh the cover and rewrite the blurb. Put a bonus scene at the back of every book to build your newsletter. 📧 Then test one Meta ad at $1 a day for 14 days, and only add budget once it’s working.
IN THIS EPISODE:
🎯 The three things to get right as an indie author: one genre, on-brand covers and your own voice
📅 Beating decision fatigue: ads on Mondays, orders out on Wednesdays and Sundays
✅ Bink’s release checklist, and where to get a copy
💵 The $1 a day Meta ad test, and why she’d start it in the new year
🎁 Stacking a free first-in-series with 99c Kindle Countdown deals
📦 Box sets: when to release them, how to price them, and why trilogies beat duets
📊 The data she checks: read-through, income by country and ad spend per book
🛑 How she decides whether a series continues
👭 Her reader community, the Sacred Sisters, and a readers-only Facebook group
🎄 How Christmas boxes for readers grew into a merch store and curated book boxes
✨ Special editions with foil and sprayed edges, printed in bulk for less than print on demand
👤 ABOUT BINK CUMMINGS:
USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Bink Cummings is known for writing steamy, dark, and unapologetically messy romances filled with walking red flags that readers know they shouldn’t fall for, but absolutely can’t resist. Raised in a family obsessed with motorcycles and classic cars, Bink’s love of bad boys and questionable decisions comes naturally. When she’s not creating fictional chaos from her home office, Bink enjoys spending time with her nerdy husband, her kids, and her four French bulldogs. She loves travelling, adding new ink to her ever-growing tattoo collection, binge-watching her favourite shows, and baking, especially her infamous chocolate chip cookies.
🔗 BINK’S LINKS:
🌐 Website and newsletter: https://authorbinkcummings.com/
🛍️ Merch and book boxes: https://binkcummings.com/collections/merch
🧵 Author advice on Threads: search Bink Cummings
✅ Release checklist for authors: use the link at the top of any of Bink’s social profiles
📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED:
📊 Author Helper Suite (sales data, read-through and universal links)
📖 BookFunnel (bonus scenes and reader magnets)
🖨️ SeSe Printing (special editions)
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