What if something goes wrong? · Book Marketing Bootcamp

What if something goes wrong?

Fun fact: you can get all excited, decide on a course of action, and before you take your first step things fall apart.

kids get sick
car breaks down
you upload the wrong cover or manuscript
Someone hates on your viral reel
Amazon shenanigans

For me, this looked like an email from Amazon, telling me my book was non-compliant and they're kicking it out of KU. This it the book I was going to advertise to increase pre-orders.

I once heard a coach say, millionaires have millionaire problems. When I first got started, the problems I dealt with seemed insurmountable, but then I grew more adept at handling those problems, and now they're not a big deal. It's not that I stopped having problems, it's just I'm used to handling them--up until a certain level. If I keep learning and growing (and building my team), the millionaire problems will also seem small, and I'll be able to tackle bigger problems.

I've had a lot of experience dealing with Amazon shenanigans. I feel whatever feelings come up-- anger, annoyance, maybe some fear--but then take a deep breath and email them multiple times until I get what I want.

I still plan on getting the book back into KU and advertising the stuff out of it. In the meantime, I pivoted and decided to advertise other books that still have the link to the pre-order in the back matter (my favorite way to get pre-orders--we'll talk about this on the call today!).

Anyhoo, stuff will happen, and you will have feelings about it, but you also can take a deep breath, take a break, pivot and do what you can.

No ones going to die if my book isn't in KU --there are no ebook emergencies! It's uncomfortable, but I also wont' die if my reel gets nasty comments--just going through it will teach my nervous system that we can handle it, and then I'll be ready for bigger and better challenges.

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What if something goes wrong?