The Prosperous Writer's Guide to Finding Readers: Build Your Author Brand, Raise Your Profile, and Find Readers to Delight: Volume 4 - Softcover

Corder, Honoree; Meeks, Brian D.; Anderle, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0998073172 ISBN 13: 9780998073170

Publisher: Honoree Enterprises Publishing, LLC, 2017

Synopsis

A great book without readers is a hobby. Here's how to give it readers.

You've written the book. You've published the book. You're staring at sales-rank seven-digits and wondering whether the problem is the cover, the description, or the universe. It's none of those. The problem is that nobody knows the book exists. That's not a marketing failure — that's a discovery problem. And discovery has a playbook.

Co-authored by Honorée Corder, Brian D. Meeks, and Michael Anderle, The Prosperous Writer's Guide to Finding Readers is the ninja-tactics field manual three working indie authors built across nonfiction, multi-genre fiction, and Anderle's 20-Books-to-50K-scale fiction empire. Three lanes, one playbook for getting buyers to your page.

Inside, you'll learn:

• Your Plan to Find Readers — the four-step audience map every author needs before they spend a marketing dollar.
• Ninja Ways to Find Readers — the unconventional moves that work: cross-promotion ladders, reader magnets, BookFunnel mechanics, anthologies, ARC programs, and the launch-team math.
• Author Brand Architecture — how to design a brand (not just a book) that compounds discoverability across every release for the next decade.
• Chart Your Journey — the cadence framework that turns one-off launches into a publishing system buyers can follow.
• Your Action Plan — the back-of-book sequence you run starting Monday, with measurable 30/60/90-day checkpoints.
• The Email List + Newsletter playbook — the single asset that decouples your career from the algorithm.
• Multi-author cross-promotion — what Michael Anderle taught Brian, and what Brian taught Honorée, about borrowing audiences ethically and effectively.

For the indie author whose first launch peaked in week one. For the novelist building book 3 or 4 and realizing they need a reader pipeline, not just another title. For the nonfiction author building a coaching or speaking funnel that needs a steady stream of new buyers. For anyone tired of paying Amazon for the readers they should be reaching directly.

Stop hoping readers will find you. Start engineering the path they take to your page.

— ABOUT THIS BOOK —
For: Indie authors (fiction and nonfiction) · Self-published novelists · Coaches and consultants with books · Authority-builders · Writers building newsletter-driven careers
Format: Paperback · eBook · Audiobook (Audible)
Series role: Book in The Prosperous Writer series — alongside Prosperity for Writers, Productivity Journal, The Nifty 15, and Making More Money
Co-authors: Honorée Corder · Brian D. Meeks · with Michael Anderle (creator of the 20Books-to-50K community)
Frameworks: Your Plan to Find Readers · Ninja Ways · Author Brand Architecture · Chart Your Journey · Your Action Plan
Author credentials: Honorée — 68 books · 5M+ copies · 40 languages · TEDx · Empire Builders Mastermind. Brian — full-time fiction across five genres. Michael — multi-million-dollar indie publishing empire and founder of 20Books-to-50K.
Comparable Titles: Your First 1,000 Copies (Tim Grahl) · Newsletter Ninja (Tammi Labrecque) · 1,000 True Fans (Kevin Kelly essay) · Let's Get Visible (David Gaughran)

— Honorée Corder, Brian D. Meeks & Michael Anderle, co-authors of The Prosperous Writer's Guide to Finding Readers

Edition details

• Publisher: Honoree Enterprises Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0998073172
• ISBN 13: 9780998073170
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 132