When is this published?

In production. No date has been fixed, and one will not be announced until it is certain. Join the list and you will hear the moment it is available.

Is this written by someone who has already succeeded?

No, and that is stated plainly rather than hidden. It is written from inside an ongoing effort — a real catalogue being marketed in public, with the results visible. That makes it more useful than a retrospective in one respect: nothing is being reconstructed after the fact to look like a plan.

Does this apply to non-Christian books?

Much of the mechanics does — categories, keywords, pricing and series structure behave the same way whatever the subject. What is specific is the audience. Faith-based readers find books differently, and most general book-marketing advice assumes a genre market that does not behave like this one.

Do I need to be on Amazon?

The mechanics chapters are Amazon-centric because that is where the volume is for this category. Wide distribution is covered, including what changes when you are not exclusive.

Standalone

The Christian Author’s Guide to Book Marketing

Getting the Message God Gave You Into the Hands of the People Who Need It

You wrote the book you were supposed to write. It is sitting at rank 800,000 and the people it was written for have never heard of it. That is not a spiritual failure and it is not a sign the message was wrong — it is a distribution problem, and distribution has mechanics.

StatusIn production · not yet published
Written forIndie Christian authors
SeriesStandalone — outside both series
Written fromInside the problem, in public

Tell me when it’s out

Not yet published. The list hears first.

What this volume argues

How to position a faith-based book so that the reader it was written for can recognise it in three seconds on a search results page.
Christian book marketing mechanics that actually move rank: categories, backend keywords, and what the Amazon algorithm is really responding to.
How to choose categories that are winnable rather than flattering, and why the obvious one is usually the wrong one.
Pricing, including when free is the correct price for a first volume and what it is supposed to buy you.
Launch sequencing — what has to be in place before release day, and what can safely wait.
Why reviews rather than traffic are usually the binding constraint, and what can honestly be done about that.
What series structure does for discoverability that individual titles cannot.

Who this is for

Indie Christian authors with a published book and no readers: The book exists, the listing is live, and nothing is happening. That is the situation this was written about.
Authors about to publish: Categories, keywords and series structure are far cheaper to get right before release than to fix afterward.
Writers uneasy about marketing their own work: If it feels like selling something that should not be sold, the framing here is distribution rather than persuasion.
Authors who have read the general book-marketing advice: Most of it assumes a genre audience and a market that behaves differently from this one.

Not for: traditionally published authors with a publisher running the marketing, or anyone looking for a guaranteed system. The book is written from the inside of an ongoing effort, not from a finished success.

What this volume argues

Who this is for

Hear when this one lands.

Hear the moment it lands.