In this Four Minute video, I walk through how to use Amazon Affiliate tracking links to track sales from a campaign. We use these when working on book launch campaigns and make sure to share this link with all our partners so that we can track clicks and purchases directly connected with our marketing efforts.

Pro Tip: Keep things in one place like a Google Doc or Notion document when working in a team so that everyone is using the right links.

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It is my great honor and pleasure to present to you this interview where I sat down with Hugh Howey, author of so many wonderful books, but most well-known for Wool. Hugh’s story is not unlike Andy Weir from my last video, but I think you’ll find the advice he provides to authors to be superb. Among these pearls of wisdom:

“Work hard and focus on what you can control. Assume nothing will get made. Be delighted when it does.”

That’s paraphrasing the gist of our conversation, and his thread On Adapting Novels to Screen (available in the show notes as a PDF download).

Hugh’s Silo book series is has been made into a TV Series and is now available on AppleTV.

In this 30 minute conversation, Hugh provides us with some incredible advice on writing and shares his perspective on all of it.

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Hello everyone!

Today I want to talk about Andy Weir.  He’s a great author, but his story as an author is pretty amazing and it’s worth breaking down.

The Martian is one of my favorite books. I started reading it with no expectations, and I was blown away at how fun and interesting the entire book was.

I later looked up Andy Weir and learned that the book was release FOR FREE to Andy’s audience and it was only after putting it up on Amazon that it became a bestseller. THEN a publisher got involved. It’s not a super common story, but it’s interesting.

In this 24 minute video, I react to Andy’s talk and try to point out some things that might be helpful to other up and coming authors. Feel free to change the playback speed. ALSO, I would love to hear your thoughts as well in the comments.

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