Serial Habit

Giving a Story Away to Build the Audience for Book One

Publishing a novel to no one is the standard indie experience. Arriving with readers already waiting is the alternative.

Serial Habit is a book in the Indie Author Guide Line: short, source-checked guides for independent authors who have finished writing and now have to be found. Serialization is the cheapest route to arriving with an audience that currently exists. This book covers the drip: choosing a platform, cutting episodes that end where readers cannot stop, and the cadence that builds a habit instead of a backlog.

This book is written from inside a live serial rather than from theory, including the episodes that flopped and why. What you get instead of a success story tidied up after the fact is the real mechanics, flops included.

What's inside:

• How to choose a serialization platform based on what your genre and readers actually want
• Where to cut an episode so a reader can't stop, and why that placement is a skill
• The cadence that builds a habit versus the one that builds an ignored backlog
• How to convert free serial readers into buyers and subscribers without souring the gift
• What went wrong in the episodes that flopped, and what that revealed
• Whether serialization is worth attempting for your specific genre and situation

This is not a promise that serialization guarantees an audience. What it will do is show you the real mechanics of building one before your launch, from someone running the experiment in real time rather than reporting on it after the fact.

From the Indie Author Guide Line, from Novel Concepts Publishing.