London Writers' Salon

#086: Gwyn Bennett — Navigating & Succeeding in Self-Publishing, Pros and Cons of Traditional Publishing, Writing Sales Copy, Amazon Categories, Building an Audience, Handling Rights, Hiring Help

Episode Summary

Crime mystery author Gwyn Bennett about how she built a successful indie publishing business sold thousands of her own books, and why she accepted an Indie Publisher book deal with Storm.

Episode Notes

Crime mystery author Gwyn Bennett about how she built a successful indie publishing business sold thousands of her own books, and why she accepted a publishing book deal with Indie Publisher Storm. We touch on why it's important to produce a professional indie published book, Gwyn's approach to writing sales copy for her books, hitting the Amazon bestselling list and how she’s approached building an audience for her books. 

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ABOUT GWYN BENNETT 

Gwyn Bennett is the best-selling author of the Dr Harrison Lane Mysteries. Her new series is out with Storm.

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RESOURCES & LINKS

• Gwyn's first self-published book Islands
• Mark Dawson's Self Publishing Formula course
• Alliance of Independent Authors
• Storm publishing
• Gwyn's Self-Publishing Resources
• Gwyn's Dr. Harrison Lane crime series (Amazon US, Amazon UK, Worldwide)
• Gwyn's newsletter and free novella: Sign up
• Gwyn on LinkedIn

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