How to Get Readers Before You Write Your First Book

August Birch
The Book Mechanic
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5 min readApr 23, 2019

Hint: this is not your typical social media advertising advice

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I’ve written twelve non-fiction books under a few pen names. The first book I wrote sat on Amazon’s digital shelf for two years (yes years) before I sold a single copy. Then it sat another year or so before the second sale. This was during the first days of the Kindle and eBooks were the Wild West.

August Birch
The Book Mechanic

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