I just connected with Rachel Jonas who's using Author Scale to sell her books. I want to invite her to come teach us and potentially run a social media challenge next month and I want to know: What questions do you have for Rachel? (see her interview below) When it comes to social media, where are you stuck? BTW, Lee20 gets you a discount on Author Scale :) You can use it for any level, including lifetime. I have lifetime access and love it: www.authorscale.com

I'm thinking instead of doing an Amazon preorder on my next book (end of January) I would rather push my newsletter and socials to my store and train them to buy direct. For a couple of weeks before the release date on 'Zon when the book goes into KU, when they buy the paperback, I would give them the ebook for free so they can read anywhere. If they buy the ebook they just get the ebook. Am I missing anything? Cons especially?

OMG, it's the 15th and we are IN IT. How's it going? Where are you stuck? How can we help? :D <3

On the 4th, I got restricted on my personal account which means I can’t do anything at all - literally anything at all - with the business tools. I had one ad running with a budget higher than I normally would run because I *was* promoting something. And I had another ad running that was promoting a free book. The free book ended on the 5th and yet that ad is still going and I can’t stop it. So I’m losing money every day. I have tried reaching out to meta to find out how long this is gonna last or if it’s permanent. I’m not getting any answers. Today I finally disconnected PayPal so at least they might stop if they don’t get paid. I have a newsletter that people engage with, but do not buy from. I post a gazillion times a day on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. I have an arc team, but I feel like in a way I’m just giving free books to my loyal readers. The only thing that was moving the needle was meta ads. And I have a new book dropping Thursday that I can’t do anything to promote. Not gonna lie this is kicking my emotional butt.

Where are you? Check your goal and where you are now. Then CELEBRATE Even if you went backwards 😆 And I'd love to see pictures of your celebration/dream board! I'm at 315 preorders, so not at 2000 YET but I am celebrating that I do have more preorders than when I started AND I'm celebrating all the steps I took to move forward. I can only control my mindset and my actions, and I am doing that, so I'm celebrating the messy middle! I'm still visualizing 2,000 pre-orders, and following the nudges to move forward (I set up more newsletter swaps for the pre-order, I'm testing blurbs and playing with hooks, also re-editing the book with @Stasia Black's most excellent line edits. I'm going to schedule more newsletters to go out through the end of the month. I'm booking more promo for other books in the series. I am putting them on sale with updated back matter that points to the pre-order. I also increased ad budget to those. And I am expecting a miracle! But that's how it works--you imagine your goal become reality, take all the baby steps you can, but also expect to get lucky. LOL It only takes one viral reel to get the attention of bigger influencers who might fall in love with your books forever. It only takes one ad to catch the imagination of a bookstore owner who wants to showcase your work. When I was a baby author, I did one promo and got a raving fan who buys absolutely everything I sell, likes and comments on every post I post, and sends my kids care packages 4 to 8 times a year!!!! Seriously, between her and my family, my husband and I rarely buy the kids clothes. Expect the magic! Picture of my new candle/perfume splurge!