Many people feel that the Amazon Best Seller Badge for an eBook isn’t that important. Some believe this because it is based on the number of sales in a particular category or subgenre.

Waiting for the elusive Kindle Daily Deal email is like waiting for an invitation to your favorite celebrities party. You hope and dream that the day will come when your invitation will appear in your mail. What do you do when it finally shows up? I’ll tell you what I did. I sat, staring at the computer screen. I was sure that it was real. I checked the address and the date, and when I was finally convinced that it was real, I hyperventilated.

Many think that we sit down and type for hours and then upload the book, and magically people buy it, and we become famous and make lots of money.

Taking control of your eBook business is a scary idea, but it is one that I am willing to undertake. Don’t get me wrong, Amazon has helped and will continue to help me find new readers, but their cut is killing my wallet.

You can’t simply make a post like the image above and expect people to be interested enough to go to your product page and click the buy button. Imagine watching a show and the advertisement for a product comes on and all they say is buy this or that. It would be boring and ineffectual.

I’m sure that many of the authors we cherish have started with a goal in mind. For most, it would be to become a best-selling author.

When I decided to pursue writing as a profession, I expected to have my friends and family's full support.

Many new writers believe that they can write a book and put it out there, and it's going to become a best seller. It probably won't. The key to success is knowing that it only comes with hard work. There is no such thing as an easy payday. Yes, you can write the book and sit back and wait to collect passive income while you go off and shop for that new drop-top or house on the hill. The only problem is that unless you market your book, no one will know that it exists.

To cuss or not to cuss, is the question. This is a question that can only be answered by the writer.