Why Do Some Authors
Do Better Than Others?
A Guest Post by Mary Martinez
I have many writer friends—go figure—but that’s not what this post is going to be about. It’s about a burning question I’ve had for some time now. Almost since before, I began to write.
Everyone who writes a book wants it to have a book to hold in their hand, or read it on kindle as the new age dictates, in other words published and most of us want it to be well received—which means sales. So my burning question is this:
Why do some authors—whether traditional or indie published—do better than others? Why does one sell 25 books to the other's 140,000 books?
I’m not talking when you compare a book poorly written with a Nora Roberts book. I know several great authors and some do very well while others barely make a sale. Again, I’m not talking two totally separate genres.
Let’s break it down, take two romantic suspense authors, their books well written and both promote on all the social media, blogs, web sites, etc. Same publisher—let’s take out all the variables and make them identical. I know this happens, just ask around.
So why does Lizzie Joe do better than Betty Sue?
Now this is where you expect me to have this big revelation about how and why one does better than the other. Guess what, I don’t. I am completely clueless. The answer to this question is almost as elusive as finding the holy grail of publishing. If you can actually give us the answer, then you’ll most likely be the next NY Times long running best seller of the publishing world.
Is it the book cover that hooks the reader? Is it the blurb? Is it that for Lizzie Joe the planets are all in alignment, did she click her heals together three times and then repeat “I want to be a best seller” and all in the right order when her book released? Please comment with your opinion.
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