by mandilynnwrites | Oct 13, 2026 | Self-Publishing
The Kickstarter is live: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mandilynnbell/project-italy-title-reveal-coming-soon Last year, I tried to make $15,000 on Kickstarter with my book, Sparks in Iceland. In reality, I only ended up raising a little over $4,000. This year, I...
by mandilynnwrites | Oct 6, 2026 | Marketing for Authors
I’ve been posting to social media every day for five months to increase my book sales. Despite having some really high engagement and views, my book sales are worse than ever. In this video, I’m going to share what content performed well, my social media stats, my...
by mandilynnwrites | Sep 22, 2026 | Author VLOGS
I had another book signing! And it did not go well. There were a lot of things not working in my favor, which just goes to show you can never predict how an event is going to go. I was going to scrap this video since things didn’t go as planned, but I wanted to share...
by mandilynnwrites | Sep 20, 2026 | Marketing for Authors
Did you know that if you give a book away for free, it can not only help you grow your author newsletter, but also help sell books in your backlist? Today I’m walking you through how you can use a free ebook to grow your newsletter exponentially and get loyal readers...
by mandilynnwrites | Sep 15, 2026 | Book Cover Design
If you plan on designing your own book cover, the last thing you want is for people to assume the book is going to be bad just because the design is bad. Despite how much we all might like to think otherwise, people do judge a book by it’s cover, and the design is a...
