I earned my first Kindle Vella Crown last night. It was an exciting experience seeing the gold crown on my first Kindle Vella book. My book promotion worked!!!

If you’ve had the pleasure of being on Amazon’s Bestseller List you know it can be for weeks or a few hours. So I wasn’t surprised when I went to bed with a crown and woke up to none.  I’m thankful Paulette Nunlee, was checking my stats last night or I would have missed my goal being completed. My book was voted a favorite book by my followers (readers) and received a crown.

I’m thankful for my hours because I worked my butt off promoting a book I was told probably wouldn’t work on the Kindle Vella platform since most books that are serialized books are fiction, not non-fiction.

Lucky for me when the author told me this my book had been on the platform for a few months and was getting reads.

Yes, it’s hard to bring readers over to the platform.  Since my book is about building your readership, I thought I’d start with the authors on the platform they are working on building their readership.  

I’m grateful for everyone who read my book because each read helped me learn more about my book promotion.

• I preach to my Butterflies (my clients) to know who your audience is and be where they are.  I had to remind myself of this daily.

My audience is Kindle Vella authors.  I joined their groups and found their hashtags on TikTok.

• Know what kind of books your reader reads.

This helped me so much because most readers are die-hard print or ebook readers.  However, there are a few who will try Kindle Vella.  I focus on finding them.

• Do the fun promotion.  

I love creating graphics and videos.  I focused on creating a graphics and social media campaign for my books.

• Check your stats because this tells you if your promotion is working.

My stats showed me my promotion was working.

My reads were increasing.

My followers were increasing.

My Thumbs up were increasing.

My promotion group was growing.

For a few hours, my favs increased and I was crowned. That’s the ultimate promotion result.  A crown from your readers.

My next mission is to get back on that list and to stay a few weeks.  Stop by my book and help me move back up.

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Readers, I appreciate your support.  Thank you!

Authors, keep promoting your Kindle Vella, your reader is waiting to see it.

This month I’m hosting the Social Butterfly Content workshop.  Join me as I share how I create the content for my promotion.

https://lashaunda.kartra.com/page/SBPCW