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I love the curation of topics - it's exactly the way people would think about discovering niche books. Curious to know - how did you curate these?
by bagofbones 5y ago
I love the curation of topics - it's exactly the way people would think about discovering niche books.
Curious to know - how did you curate these?
- bwb 5y agoTotally by hand over the last 3 months, I have quite a lot of automation in place to help me do it, but at the end of the day I work with each author to craft these. With just me I should be able to scale up to 300 new lists each month, and I am looking to further accelerate that.
- mariushn 5y agoHow do you get in touch with authors? What's their motivation to contribute a list? Getting more exposure?
- bwb 5y agoJust the grind of cold emails :) It is a pretty easy sell as it is win/win for them. They recommend five books on a topic they already know well and then I feature them and their book alongside the list forever. Plus, what we are finding in early user testing is that by giving those little recommendations readers get to peek in their head and it increases interest in their book. Half my long term goal with this website is to give authors better ways to market themselves and their books. There is a growing trend that authors have to do full time marketing and I worry that a lot of authors spend more time on marketing than their craft. And, for new authors it is a catch 22 to try to get that first book noticed.