SPA Girls Podcast – EP267 – Get Your First Book Right

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Want to make sure you give your first book the best possible chance of success… and then have readers auto-buying the next in your series? Then this is the podcast for you!

This week we give you a checklist of elements for a successful first book in a series, before you even start writing a single word! We talk about everything – including the tropes that sell, what back matter to use, what kind of characters readers love and much more in this overview of how to make sure the first book in your series is awesome and automatically sells the next book in your series to your readers! 

SHOW NOTES:

• Tropes – what sells?
• What covers sell best?
• Don’t be afraid to niche
• Don’t over-complicate your story
• Find comparable books (published by indies)
• Make your first book your BEST – it does the heavy lifting of selling the entire series
• Cast of characters
• Cover symbolism
• POV and tense

Links discussed:

SPA Girls Podcast with Zoe York: Romance Your Brand
https://selfpublishingauthorspodcast.com/spa-girls-podcast-ep226-romance-your-brand-with-zoe-york/

Zoe York’s book “Romance Your Brand: Building a Marketable Genre Fiction Series https://www.amazon.com/Romance-Your-Brand-Marketable-Publishing/dp/1989703232

SPA Girls Podcast with Chris Fox: https://selfpublishingauthorspodcast.com/spa-girls-podcast-ep206-interview-with-chris-fox-ads-for-authors-who-hate-maths/

K-lytics : https://k-lytics.com/
SPA Girls Podcast with Alex Newton of K-lytics: https://selfpublishingauthorspodcast.com/spa-girls-podcast-ep244-alex-newton-from-k-lytics/