Your Book Isn't Selling. Here's Why (And What To Fix First)

If your book isn't selling, it almost always comes down to one of two things. Your cover is sending the wrong signal, or you're not doing the work to put the book in front of people. Usually one. Sometimes both. Everything else is noise until those two are fixed.

Steve Kelly breaks down why the algorithm isn't your problem, what he looks at when he knows in ten seconds a book won't sell, and the real story of a series that only started moving after a retitle and recover. Plus a two-part action step you can do this week.

The algorithm doesn't owe you readers. You have to go and get them.

Rule 1: Write the damn book. Rule 2: Stay in the game.