Nic Cole's Fiction Advice

1. Start with short stories

   1. Amazon Original Stories

2. Play in smaller less competitive sub-category

   1. Sikh
   2. Aviation
   3. AI

3. Treat Amazon as primary platform

   1. Exclusive or go wide (Kobo)
   2. Simple way is to go Kindle Unlimited

4. Build Organic Following

   1. Build it around your non-fiction (making of)

5. Find your royal road and get feedback

   1. Publish super raw
   2. Then leave up less than 10% of book and link to Amazon

6. Build an email list or discord

7. Monetize side quest content (Substack)

   1. Research, read ahead, side stories

8. K-Lyitics

9. John Truby

10. PublisherRocket

11. Reedsy

12. ineedabookcover.com

13. Write and publish as many quality books as you can.

14. Invest as much as you can in each book. For the first book, spend all the money in budget can on a good cover.

15. Do this over and over again for decades.

16. Buy an ISBM number

17. Make a KDP account