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  • Market Like a Mofo: How to Sell More Copies of Your Badass Book

    Market Like a Mofo: How to Sell More Copies of Your Badass Book

    Market Like a Mofo: How to Sell More Copies of Your Badass Book is here, and in honor of the debut of the fourth book in our Badass Writing series, Sonja and I have our sexy new Indiana Jones whips out and are shredding everything in sight. (You might wanna step back a few…)

    /insert whip sounds/

    Whassinnit?

    As soon as you get your copy, you’ll dive in and take the opening quiz, which is based on how much time and money you want to spend, and whether or not you are self-publishing or working with a traditional publisher.

    Then you’ll plummet straight into one of our four non-techie, done-for-you, can’t-possibly-miss marketing plans.

    Of course, we also tell you exactly how WE did it, and we have additional chapters for all you smartypantsers and those of you who want to roll your own plan.

    Sound like a giant hell-yeah taco with face-melting fabulous sauce? Well, it comes with a side of smokin’ hot FREE, between August 1 and August 5, so you better click through and grab you some digital “Yeah, Baby!” before they’re all gone forever.

    Here’s what it DOESN’T have…

    We didn’t write our book to tell you how to make a million, overnight, while you sleep. Market like a Mofo may be the ONLY marketing book you’ll ever read that does not promise you riches, or regurgitate rules about setting goals, monitoring, measuring, and refining your marketing tactics…

    In fact, we started out writing it that way, but then we held our fingers on the backspace key until that entire chapter was relegated to cyber-purgatory. Sonja and I didn’t pen the Badass Writing series to make a giant pile of doubloons (although we love doubloons, and wish we had some doubloons, and saying doubloooooons is fun). We wrote it because a) we were drinking at the time, b) it was a blast, and c) it feels great to stop taking everything so damned seriously. All that hyper-serious shit impedes forward motion, especially when you’re first getting going on this adventure. The point is to write, dammit, ship it, then let people know about it.

    If you go on to become one of those Kindle Millionaires, drinks are on you, Big Daddy.

    How to be a real hero

    And hey, if you read it and get something good out of it, would you please give us a review on Amazon? It’s not nearly as fun as a wine slushy, but it puts virtual jet fuel in our writing biplane and pays for new whips. Every badass writer needs a whip. And they wear out so quickly. Snif. So please write us a review, and if you’re feeling extra givey-helpy, go through and “thumbs up” the other great reviews you see and like.

    How to wrangle an invitation to our “Whip Party”

    The most reviews we’ve ever gotten for a book was for our first one, Bagels, Dirty Limericks, and Martinis: The Badass Guide to Writing Your First Book. As of this post, we have 25 for that one, most of them 5 star. If we get 25 reviews for Marketing Mofo, we will hold a “Whip Party” online.

    Here’s how a Badass Whip Party works…

    Once we get 25 reviews on Marketing Mofo, we will send out an email inviting you to tell us your toughest book writing, publishing, or marketing hurdle that you just don’t seem to be able to clear.

    We’ll also add you to our Private Badass Writing Whip Party Facebook Group.

    Then, on a specific date (we’ll announce it via our email list, so go sign up at BadassWriting.com), we will post the problems and our answers/ideas for how you can whip that problem into shape. And of course, all of you can introduce yourselves and help each other out with cheering and more advice on how to navigate past the poison dart walls to nab the golden writing-publishing-marketing statue.

    If you can’t be there on that specific date, you can always take a look at the thread later and keep interacting with the others from the Badass Writing community.

    Big. Solid gold. Win.

    So. Your Mission…

    1. Go get your free copy of Market Like a Mofo.
    2. Write us an awesome review on Amazon. (Thumbs-up other great reviews, as desired.)
    3. Email us your toughest writing, publishing, and marketing problems.
    4. (Once we pass 25 reviews) JOIN OUR WHIP PARTY on Facebook!

    Whip it, badass. Whip it good. Then sit back and enjoy your dirty martini. You’ve earned it.

    Cheers,

    Lisa & Sonja
    The Dynamic Duo of Book Badassery

    PS: How would you write a whip crack sound? Wuh-PSHHH, maybe? Kuh-TCHH! Wah-TCHA? Hm. Please leave me a comment and tell me the answer.

  • How to Publish Your Badass Book

    How to Publish Your Badass Book

    If your inner demons have ever said to you, “Hey loser, you’re never gonna get your book written, much less published,” my partner-in-writing-badassery Sonja Foust and I are gonna give you some nice sharp rocks to throw in those bastards’ faces.

    Our newest book, “Vampires and Tantric Sex: How to Publish Your Book Like a Bona Fide Badass” has just come out on Amazon and it’s FREE starting May 30, and for a few days after.

    Here’s a little (strip) teaser…

    Listen, you already know that publishing — even if you go the self-published online route, which is definitely the fastest — isn’t a get rich quick scheme, no matter what that dude on the infomercial or pop-up-infested sales page promised you.

    It’s hard work, and it takes time.

    In fact, publishing is like tantric sex, in which we are (of course) both experts. Actually, it’s like über-tantric sex, if you’ll allow us to mix the Germans with the Hindus, because rather than a six-hour naked marathon session, it’s more like a six-month to two-year naked (soul) marathon.

    Tell your inner demons to put that in their pipes and smoke it. They’ll probably quite like it, and switch sides immediately. That, at least, is worth the effort of downloading, wouldn’t you agree?

    This publishing-as-über-tantric-soul-sex marathon is mostly fun and you do get several little orgasms plus a big, juicy one at the end. Which is really just the beginning, because after tantric publishing comes tantric marketing (<– our next book), which is actually more like an orgy (in which we are also both experts), because you want lots of excited people involved to help you “get it off.” Hah.

    And you thought this book was gonna be dull.

    If you haven’t immediately deleted us from your hard drive, unfriended us both on Facebook, and written your congressman an angry letter in which you foam at the mouth and denounce us as frauds (we are not experts at that), we got more good stuff…coming.

    And we always practice safe publishing, y’all. And you’re gonna like it. Especially if you’re into a little BDSM.

    No dirty limericks or whiskey, buuuuut…

    Not only are you gonna discover what you need to know BEFORE you publish, you’ll also get the full story on traditional and online publishing (with timelines and worksheets for all), AND you’ll get to see exactly how the two of us did it, too.

    You’ll find out:

    • The advantages and disadvantages to traditional (with the “Big Six” or a small press) and online (on your own or for a client) publishing
    • What each part will cost you, and how long it will take
    • Which parts of the process are easiest to outsource
    • How to navigate the secret hell of formatting for online publishing platforms

    No dirty limericks are included this time (no whiskey, either), but if we could give you all a present it would definitely be a “Be nice or I’ll mock you in my novel” tee-shirt. And if you want MORE really-it’s-chocolate-flavored unicorn pellets, see the next bit…

    Collect ’em all!

    Just in case you missed it earlier, the first book in the Badass Writing Series, Bagels, Dirty Limericks, and Martinis: The Badass Guide to Writing Your First Book, will help you get your ideas out of your head and down on paper, tell you the ironclad rules of writing (and why most of them are crap), take you step by step through writing your first outline in 5 minutes (or less), and reveal the secrets to plotting, editing, and FINISHING your book.

    The second book, Whiskey-Pissing Unicorns: How to Lose or Quit Your Job and Become a Badass Writer  includes three critical questions (and one sneaky-ass trick) you should consider when deciding whether you really wanna be an ink-slave, explains precisely where badass writers find paying jobs (not counting Wal-Mart, hah), and tells you what does and doesn’t keep the baby in Huggies.

    Vampires and Tantric Sex: How to Publish Your Book Like a Bona Fide Badass is the third book in the series…

    And our fourth book has a working title of Marketing Mofo: How to Sell Moar Copies of Your Badass Book. (We may or may not spell the title in lolcat.) And if we get a good electrical storm in the next few weeks, we’ll be able to hook that one up in the laboratory and jolt it to life by July. See below for how to find out when the monster is free and rampaging through the digital streets…

    Write Dammit Cover (s)

    Get “Write, Dammit” for Free, too!

    If you want to get our free book, 25 Reasons to Write, Dammit, go sign up over at Badass Writing. You might want to get it purely for the handy-dandy list of penis-inspired names for the characters in your books. Of course you might want to avoid it entirely for that reason, too. Maybe wear gloves for that download.

    Any rate, you won’t get any kind of regular newsletter-y thing (too much work) when you sign up, but we’ll def let you know whenever one of our new books is coming out for freesies.