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John Locke is THE most successful indi-author out there. With 8 books to his name, one of which is bought somewhere in the world every 7-seconds (according to his figures)and a fan-base that numbers in the millions, Locke is a self-publishing powerhouse and a hero to many independent authors. As an author myself, I’ve followed his tweets, his blogs and his interviews trying to glean some kind of inkling into how he achieved his phenomenal success, but there was very little real information to be found — until now.

How I sold 1 million eBooks in 5 Months! outlines precisely how John achieved his success using his self-developed, step-by-step marketing system that shows you what worked for him, how to implement his strategy for yourself and, in my opinion just as importantly, what didn’t work, so you don’t waste your valuable time.

The book is only 65-pages long but it is packed to the gills with the kind of priceless marketing information and insight that a self-published author could only ever dream of. While there are aspects of his system that you will have read elsewhere (build a website, get a blog etc.) it’s the added detail that makes this book shine over other ebook-marketing books, and unlike other e-marketing books, John presents us with a plan, rather than just a list of suggestions. Each section lists the specific process and actions to follow that have helped John achieve his success. For instance, in the section covering interviews he recommends that you develop quotable sound bites (such as his now famous quote: “I no longer have to prove my books are as good as the world’s most famous authors’. Now they have to prove their books are ten times better than mine”). He simply could not make it any easier for us, the rest is up to us.

If you’re an indie-author, do yourself a favor, spend the $5 on this book. You will not be disappointed.

Paul Antony Jones

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Kathryn Ball (Rockwall, TX United States) –

  

In this book, John Locke details the specific, nitty-gritty details about how he became the eighth author overall, and the FIRST self published author, to join the Kindle Million club whose members include James Patterson, Nora Roberts, and Stieg Larsson among others.

Locke includes many reasons why self publishing is good for an author, allowing him/her to compete on the same level as the traditionally published author. This will, of course, raise the hackles of those in the business of traditionally publishing authors (i.e. selling paper) who I’m sure will do their best to denigrate Locke and this book as hogwash. They will warn their dwindling stable of authors to stay away from the ‘dangerous’ words in this book and that would be a shame.

It would be a shame because most of this book is devoted to laying out and explaining Locke’s self-created (and sometimes counter-intuitive), step by step marketing plan. And unless an author is already in that Kindle million club with Locke, they will most likely be responsible for their own marketing, traditionally published authors included. This book can help those authors languishing at publishing houses whose books have been priced at or above $9.99, hampering their sales potential from the beginning. These are the authors who literally need all of the help they can get given the obstacles they face being traditionally published. And they can find a huge chunk of that help in this little book. Will they reach John Locke’s level of success without being self published? Probably not. But every sale counts in any business and writers are in business whether they know it or not.

You don’t have to be a fan of Donovan Creed or John Locke for this system to make sense and work for you. But fans will get something extra from this since Locke goes into some detail about the creation of Donovan Creed and how that character fits into Locke’s business plan.

One of the most compelling aspects of this book (besides the clear, actionable steps inside) is the price. Locke has generously given up all of his secrets for only $5 bucks. A better bargain for writers could not be found.

In sum, if you are in the business of putting words together on digital paper and then getting people to pay money for those words, you need to buy this book.

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