Martha Tucker

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             WRITING AND PROMOTING YOUR BESTSELLER ONLINE

          “TAKE THE MYTH OUT OF BESTSELLER, AND WRITE YOU ONE!”

Bestseller generally means selling a great number of books, starting around 30-50 thousand copies.  Certain bookstores report the sales to certain lists and the title is listed as Bestseller.  Well, many, many bookstores that sell lots of author’s books and  don’t report to those lists. Then there are ordinary writers like you and me who sell thousands of books on their own and they don’t report to those lists.  Those lists don’t include self-published or small press writers.

Many bookstores and lists that have bestsellers don’t report to Publisher’s Weekly, the New York Times and USA Today.  What a huge disparity!

            But I want to share with you what all such books have in common, reported and unreported— all are rather well written, most have a fresh concept, all are pretty well edited.  So in this equation, we know that bestsellers have three things in common: 1) they’re well written. 2) Have a fresh concept, 3) they’re well edited—no typos or verb-noun disagreement, no misspelling, or run on sentences—only if the writer is breaking the rule to prove some point.

            I’ve read quite a few bestsellers that are simple and straightforward, some with twists and turns, but they all have those three qualities in common, and my writing experiences will allow me to take the myth out of how they get to be bestsellers.  To show that you have a bestseller in you. We all have one inside; it just needs to be written, edited, polished and promoted.  And really, it doesn’t take that much.  I took five years to write my bestseller-kind-of- novel, but I had no one to teach me any better. I intend to teach you how to write a bestseller-kind-of-book, polish and promote it to bestseller, with the same methods I’m using with mine. I’ll share every tip with you.

       Now back to Bestseller. I consider a bestseller as a book that is well written, has a fresh concept, and is promoted and sold to a lot of willing readers.  That’s exactly what Mark victor Hansen (Chicken Soup for the Soul) did.  He sold from the back of his car until he found his path to becoming a bestseller—a sure way of getting publicity. He started doing lots of radio interviews every day.  But his way might not be your way. It all depends on your book.  And then, it could be your way.  We shall see.

            My name is Martha Tucker, and I’m sure you’ve seen my novel on the Internet somewhere—The Mayor’s Wife Wore Sapphires. It’s an American inner city political thriller with a strong romance twist. I ask you to become familiar with it because I’m going to be using it to explain certain principles to you—read the three free chapters: www.urbanclassicbooks.com.   The novel has two significant 5-Star Reviews and racking up more every day.  The Mayor’s Wife Wore Sapphires is proof that your number one priority is to write a Bestseller-type-book.

 If your book is dull, objectionable, thrown together with a weak plot and cardboard characters, no amount of promoting is going to give it legs to stand up as a bestseller.  While you’re over on my website—www.urbanclassicbooks.com, look at the praises my novel got.  If you want to deepen the concepts and use the secrets that no one else teaches in a simple way for you to understand, just order a copy from the website for reference.

 I am going to be using live examples, even by page numbers, to teach you how to write the bestseller-kind-of-novel, because fiction is more difficult to promote than nonfiction.  With nonfiction, thousands of people need to know exactly what you’re sharing and are willing to buy right then according to the need.  But fiction is born into a competitive world—mostly dominated by the popularity of the author’s name—sports figures, actresses, actors, the queen, the president, the President’s wife.  Fiction books that become bestsellers are usually those written by big name celebrities or well known authors.  Don’t blame the publisher for knowing that people recognize those names and will pay.  Those names get free publicity on Good Morning America, The Today Show and USA Today, and Oprah isn’t out of the question. 

But don’t fear.  There is a way to sell tons of fiction books for ordinary people like you and me.  I’m going to teach it to you as we go along.  You have to do your part.  Imagine if you missed the opportunity to be taken by the hand, for free, to become a bestseller, and you did nothing.  It is a moment when you can change your life in one fell swoop.

            Now read the free opening chapters of The Mayor’s Wife Wore Sapphires and consider the "who, what, when, where and how" in this novel.  Tell yourself how those elements were smoothly tied together so they don’t seem like separate parts. Read the prologue and answer those questions for yourself.  www.urbanclassicbooks.com.  When you finish, you will knw that you never have to settle for selling your novel to only to your circle of family and friends.  You can be a bestseller!  Till next time###

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Author Bio—www.urbanclassicbooks.com/       writelink3@yahoo.com

Martha Tucker, 5-Star Review Author, book coach, story editor, public speaker, publisher

“THE MAYOR’S WIFE WORE SAPPHIRES,” a romantic thriller

Helping authors to use her own winning writing technique—“Take the myth out of the Bestseller—Write and Promote You One!”

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