How Kickstarter and Shopify Changed Tee Harlowe’s Author Career Plus Instagram Tips

314 / Tee Harlowe, a fantasy romance author, shares tips for successful Kickstarters as well as how she’s adapting to market shifts and why diversification is key to surviving income drops.

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• Rapid release publishing strategies
• Instagram tips for authors
• Fallacies in assumptions about genre size equating to sales
• Challenges with Kickstarter fulfillment
• Diversifying author income streams, including through traditional publishing and direct sales
• Running a successful Shopify store

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• Sara Rosett mystery and thriller tropes on the Indy Author Podcast: www.theindyauthor.com/show-notes/331-sara-rosett
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• PublisherChamp https://www.publisherchamp.com/
• ScribeCount: https://scribecount.com/
• CrowdControl: https://apps.shopify.com/crowd-control
• Ember Mae on Simple Kickstarters: 18702381-kickstarter-for-beginners-how-to-start-small-and-launch-successfully-with-ember-mae
• Rachel Hanna on Direct Sales: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2121723/episodes/13075849-rachel-hanna-on-direct-sales-success-and-writing-women-s-fiction

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