Comments on: How to Use a Short Story to Sell More Books

By: John Gurung|AptBlogger

John Gurung|AptBlogger — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 01:04:28 +0000

Thank you for the blog post! Short stories are excellent. They are concise that captures the reader’s attention and leave a lasting impression. 🙂

By: Sheryl Ann

Sheryl Ann — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 23:05:35 +0000

This is great. I’m going to put my mind to this as a lead to one Seasonal Daily Readers for a specific market which I’m about to start marketing. I hope my automation with ConvertKit will work for this. Again, thank you.

By: Virginia

Virginia — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 19:49:43 +0000

Great article and most helpful

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 11:04:32 +0000

In reply to Clayton Noblit. Clayton, thanks for responding. I’ll look into the idea of a podcast. Thanks

By: Ian King

Ian King — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 01:19:08 +0000

Hi Jane, that is a great idea. It’s easy enough to have links to audio chapters/ podcast to places like SoundCloud, or podbean. I’m an audio book narrator and author and have turned 5 of my books into dramatic audio books… dramatic meaning using sound effects, music character voices etc., and it is hard work, but fun to do.

By: Clayton Noblit

Clayton Noblit — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 21:26:30 +0000

In reply to Jane Marion. Hey Jane, good idea! I like how this blog post lays out the process of recording an audiobook. For a short story, you could also be less structured as you won't need to necessarily break it into clickable chapters. Another option for distribution could be to release the short stories as a Podcast. Just a thought!

By: Peter Kingsmill

Peter Kingsmill — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 20:21:35 +0000

Cool idea, clearly described, thank-you. So… I gots one (short story) and I gots a mailing list and I gots a website and I gots the third novel in a series just released. I plan to do the obvious thing, according to your blog, within days if not hours. Thanks again!

By: Gene

Gene — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:16:12 +0000

I like this article a lot. I have this already as a lead magnet, however, it’s not as easy as it should be on the website. I need to automate it more. Thanks for the ideas.

By: Jane Marion

Jane Marion — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:48:19 +0000

Thanks for your valuable information – as always. I’ve written a trilogy and a short story as an extra for each book. What I’d really like to do is an audio of each short story read by me, the author. I have a background in acting so feel confident enough to do this. What would be a inexpensive way to do an audio clip? Can audio clips be loaded to your webpage? Can they be put on bookfunnel?

I really appreciate any advice?

By: Clayton Noblit

Clayton Noblit — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 12:39:14 +0000

In reply to Peter Coomber. Great idea Peter! So many of my successes in marketing have come from tweaking or changing common techniques, so glad to hear you are giving a variation on a lead magnet a try.