How To Find Success In Self Publishing

Evan Winter talks about his experience finding success in self-publishing his smash hit, The Rage of Dragons and Fires of Vengence!

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Interview:

00:00 Intro

00:54 Time magazine

02:37 Self Pub First Steps

06:04 Success in precision

07:48 Early Sales Importance

11:14 First 100 Days of Ads

15:09 Budget

17:14 Best investments

21:57 Biggest Mistake

23:13 Sweat Equity

24:26 Start with novella

27:56 Genre

[DanielGreeneReviews]

Evan is such a great guy! Be sure to check out RoD is you haven’t already. Pay attention to this guys advice. He knows what he’s talking about!

[bentingley]

Couldn’t agree more with Evan on how hard Daniel has worked to build his following. It’s all been leading up to this, One Piece at a time.

[El_Diablo_]

21:50 word of mouth kicks in at 50k copies
23:16 blessings of having a prebuilt audience

[jamesmalik]

Evan Winter's so charismatic. I ended up watching the whole vid

[AntoineBandele]

Thank you for this video. I’m one of those readers who just didn’t vibe with Rage of Dragons (and felt bad for it), but Evan is a real stand up dude. This is my first time listening to an interview with him all the way through.

[SSBGraham]

“Just drop 10G on ads” is very relatable and helpful advise. “Thank you”

[Calebgoblin]

Faces that I like
They are talking to each other
Gladness

[robertwalsh]

I can't believe this is free to watch. Such a valuable resource for everyone, hearing from the masters! Thank you Evan and Daniel

[samivory]

I’m glad Daniel has found a use for that second camera I felt bad when he got it for Fantasy News and it was received poorly lol

[benreisfisher]

I'm going to go and buy Evan's first book and see if I like it. He always seems so genuine when he's on the channel.

[CamWolfeAuthor]

So much valuable advice here! I can’t imagine the difficulty that would be involved in marketing a book to success without an already established platform. So much respect to Evan

[JasonDettrey]

I think that it is important to notate that Evan Winter self-published The Rage of Dragons in 2017 and then it was acquired by Orbit in 2019 and rereleased that July. So before everyone rushes off to goodreads to see the 33k reviews and assumes from this video that all of those sales came from self-publishing, that would not be the case. Evan Winter, in another interview, stated that he was in talks with an editor from Orbit which allowed him to be picked up as a traditionally published author at a big 4 because he felt that they could help him "be better". So, while there is value in the things being talked about in the interview, I think that it is important and should have been noted in the video that Evan Winter is no longer just a self-published author and at best is a hybrid author. It is also worth noting that since the book was acquired by a trad publisher and "rereleased" that could also mean that the book as it is currently being sold could be vastly different from the original self-published form. Not saying it is, but it could be considering trad publishers do go through extensive periods of editing, design, and marketing before they release a book. I would hazard that The Rage of Dragons was possibly only listed for a year before being picked up by Orbit so that they had time to do their due diligence before rerelease. Food for thought. Not dogging on Self-Publishing at all, but just giving everyone a reality check before we all go crazy over how "successful" this self-pub author is, when there are key facts that Daniel Green is omitting here and Even Winter is has also talked about in other interviews.

[destro]

Just started the 2nd book by Mr. Winter, gotta say I’m really loving the series.

[juts]

That is one impressive dude. No wonder rage of dragons blew up.

[SandrasLibrary]

What a fantastic conversation. Really appreciate Winter’s insights on his approach. Such an inspiration!

[nickdentonva]

I remember auditioning for the audiobook before he went with the actual narrator. I knew reading that audition it would be a massive book, I've followed Evan ever since and long may his success continue!

[tayo_]

I don't care if this sounds cheesy, it warms my heart to see someone who looks like me who has made a living through self-publishing fantasy books. I really need to read Rage Of Dragons at some point.

[alexdenton]

I am a writer myself and the most important thing would be to offer quality that would be a good start 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

When I see all the poor quality content on Amazon it's horrible

I see a lot of people wanting to make a quick buck by selling low quality fiction books, content copied from others, coloring books that require no effort etc.

I know we are not all equal and not everyone can be Frank Herbert etc but offering quality is the first and most important step

[pemryjanes]

Am I the only one that wants to hear Daniel and Evan discuss Warcraft 3 for ten minutes?

[hcstubbs]

Watching this has made me decide self-publishing is definitely not a back up for me to traditional publishing. It's too damn expensive... which means traditional publishing is the only way to really get success for people without a lot of money to invest in their work or a pre-existing followin to drive up sales. Very interesting video, made me respect self-published authors even more. It's one thing to have enough faith in your work to put it out without a publisher backing you, another to put so much money into it. Now I really wanna read rage of dragons 👌