#272: The Power of a Book Series

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We talked about publishing short Kindle books last month. If you publish short books, I recommend creating a Kindle series around your main topic.  Your series title can be related to your main topic.  Then, each small book can focus on a specific problem within that topic.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Publishing a book series helps you build authority in that niche; people will eventually know that you know your stuff.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the first series that I created was my vegetarian cookbook series.  There were seven books in the series and they sold really well.  Each book in the series then promoted the others. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instead of having one cookbook with ALL the recipes, I broke it down by topic as follows:</span></p> <ol> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Breakfast Recipes</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lunch Recipes</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Main Entrees</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Appetizer Recipes</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Salad Recipes</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Soup, Stew, and Chili Recipes</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Ultimate Guide to Vegetarian Cooking with ALL the recipes</span></li> </ol> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">By now, you should be getting the idea.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What seems to work best is when you have six or seven books in the series.  That seems to be the sweet spot, where Amazon starts promoting the other books for you and doing some advertising for you. They do this by displaying your book on “Customers who bought this also bought” or sending out promotional emails about your books. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You may think that six to seven books sound like too much work!  However, if you think about writing 10,000 words per book or 60,000-70,000 words for the entire series,