Welcome to this episode of the Real Fast Results podcast!  Monica Leonelle is today’s special guest.  She is an expert on writing, authorship, and publishing.  Not only does she teach this stuff, but she does this in her day to day business as well.  As a matter of fact, she’s written over a half a million words of fiction, spread across numerous genres and series, most notably her young adult urban fantasy and paranormal romance series, which is called Waters Dark and Deep. Monica also writes about indie publishing at her site, ProseOnFire.com. Her most recent non-fiction series is called Growth Hacking for Storytellers has helped thousands of authors to write faster, become better storytellers, and have more success.  In addition to all of this, Monica is also the creator of a program called Breakout Masterclass.  To find out more about Monica, and to gain access to her latest fiction updates, exclusive giveaways, and advance review copies, sign up at MonicaLeonelle.com.  Welcome to the show Monica… [bctt tweet="One tactic that has worked well for me and other authors is doing a giveaway of similar books." username="danielhall"]  Promise: Get Your Book Selling Our big, fat promise for today is that we are going to get your book selling.  We have this framework called “The 10 Stages of Audience.”  This is a clear sales funnel that’s specific to authors and the needs that they have.  The first five stages focus on getting readers to your books and getting people to buy them, and the back stages focus on how you can turn your customers into readers, fans, and evangelists of your work. Download the Complete PDF Show Notes Free for this Episode Learn Monica's 10 stages How to find your target audience Getting your book in front of your audience How to use giveaways to get people to buy your books Trial and sample chapters Improving your Amazon listing Getting your audience to actually read the book Having a launch team Creating true fans of your work Marketing ideas and books to read Download the Complete PDF Show Notes Free for this Episode Connecting with Monica The best way to get in touch with me is through my blog, ProseOnFire.com.  If you want to check out my Growth Hacking for Storytellers series, it’s at ProseOnFire.com/ghfs.  That will take you directly to Amazon, where you can see all of the books in the series.  Get Your Book Selling is out, and it’s at ProseOnFire.com/booksales.  Everything that we’ve been talking about, related to the 10 Stages of Audience, is covered in my book.  Go check it out.  It will help you to brush up on your marketing.  I promise that the 10 stages are easy and fun, and once you start to learn about them, no matter how introverted you are or how much of an artist you are, I think you’ll feel a lot more comfortable with marketing your book. Resources Get Your Book Selling ProseOnFire.com Gotta Read It!: Five Simple Steps to a Fiction Pitch that Sells How to Write a Sizzling Synopsis Write to Market Contagious Actionable Gamification Word of Mouth Marketing Brains on Fire Real Fast Results Community If you are diggin’ on this stuff and really love what we’re doing here at Real Fast Results, would you please do me a favor? Head on over to iTunes, and make sure that you subscribe to this show, download it, and rate & review it. That would be an awesome thing. Of course, we also want to know your results. Please share those results with us at http://www.realfastresults.com/results. As always, go make results happen!