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Dear Nairalanders, please I need your advice/suggestions on this.

I'm an unsuccessful writer who has authored a couple of books so far but with nothing to show for it. So, last year (2020), I decided to write on this controversial topic, LIE! with the hope that it will become a hit.

But since after releasing the book on major ebook platforms like okadabooks and Amazon Kindle, just a single copy has been downloaded almost a year after releasing the book.

Please fellow Nairalanders, how can I make this book a hit on Okadabooks and or Amazon Kindle? Abeg, me too wan blow!

Please help a hungry author. Your suggestions, advice and constructive criticisms will go a long way in pushing me up.

Change strategy. Go back to you drawing board, understand the market needs, what people read, and deliver incredible content with catchy book cover.

InfernoNig:
Change strategy. Go back to you drawing board, understand the market needs, what people read, and deliver incredible content with catchy book cover.

OP, writing a single book will never make you a millionaire.
Success is a process, it's not achieved at once.

InfernoNig:
Change strategy. Go back to you drawing board, understand the market needs, what people read, and deliver incredible content with catchy book cover.

Thank you for the insight

jswitch:
Thank you for the insight

Uwc

NwaNimo1:
The title is all wrong......the book needs to market itself

Please can you explain further?

Kaiser20:
OP, writing a single book will never make you a millionaire. Success is a process, it's not achieved at once.

Yes sir, I understand. Though this is not my first book- it's the fourth one.
https://m.okadabooks.com/book/about/how_to_lie/32754
that's the link to the book as well as my other book

It's not easy like that

U need to write n publish at least 20 books first before thinking of hitting it big.

Don't be in a hurry to make money, think long term

jswitch:
Dear Nairalanders, please I need your advice/suggestions on this.

I'm an unsuccessful writer who has authored a couple of books so far but with nothing to show for it. So, last year (2020), I decided to write on this controversial topic, LIE! with the hope that it will become a hit.

But since after releasing the book on major ebook platforms like okadabooks and Amazon Kindle, just a single copy has been downloaded almost a year after releasing the book.

Please fellow Nairalanders, how can I make this book a hit on Okadabooks and or Amazon Kindle? Abeg, me too wan blow!

Please help a hungry author. Your suggestions, advice and constructive criticisms will go a long way in pushing me up.

Have you ran any online and offline Marketing Campaigns to your book ?

What are the selling strategies you have utilized?

You can explain your responses on here so that every other persons in your shoes learn.




Best Regards.

legacystore:


It's not easy like that

U need to write n publish at least 20 books first before thinking of hitting it big.

Don't be in a hurry to make money, think long term

20 books? I for don old by that time ooooo...

LifeSolutionsTV:
Have you ran any online and offline Marketing Campaigns to your book ?

What are the selling strategies you have utilized?

You can explain your responses on here so that every other persons in your shoes learn.




Best Regards.

over the years, I've relied more on family and friends to buy/promote my book(s) which I believe is one of the major reasons I didn't succeed.

I've also pushed traffic to the book through my social media handles and by writing guest posts on a couple of blogs but my only benefit has been congratulatory messages from readers who always end up not purchasing the book.