Are you looking to migrate from KU to Wide?
Are you currently Wide but feel like there’s too much out there to wrap your mind around, and you don’t know how to optimize your catalog?
Are you a new author, looking to go Wide from Day 1, but you’re not sure how or where to get started?
Welcome to my Foundational Class on Being a Successful Wide Author – you’re going to like it here! 😀
First off, let me introduce myself. My name is Erin Wright 👋 and I am a full-time contemporary western romance author. I started writing in 2016, and went Wide in 2017. By March of 2019, I’d convinced Suzie O’Connell to start Wide for the Win Facebook group with me, and by December of 2020, I’d started teaching classes one-on-one with Widelings, hoping to help people become successful Wide authors themselves.
But almost from the jump, I found that my consultation calendar was booked out anywhere from 6 weeks to 6 months, and teaching authors the foundational aspects of being a Wide author one by one by one was not the most efficient use of my time.
My hope is to do a series of Wide classes (starting out with foundational information and going from there) where I can reach a wide swath of authors at once, bringing them all up to the next level.
Then, when I do a one-on-one with an author, we’ll be able to focus specifically on their catalog and what strategy they should put into place, vs general (but very helpful) information that they need to put into place at the beginning before any other information is really that useful.
For my Foundational class, these are the topics we’re going to be covering:
- Distributor vs direct – what I suggest in which situation
- Wide algos vs Amazon’s algos – why long preorders are such a boon on Wide platforms; why switching between KU and Wide causes so many problems (both in terms of algos and working with Wide storefront employees)
- The four parts of the metadata that is always search indexed, and why that matters
- The fifth part of the metadata that is sometimes search indexed and sometimes not, and how to use that info when uploading books to storefronts
If you’re ready to sign up for a class, here are the current dates available; check out the FAQ below for the times that each of these classes are going to be offered:
- March 23rd sign-up form
- April 11th sign-up form (This is an “early” class and thus is a good fit for many in the UK and Europe)
- April 28th sign-up form (This is a “late” class and thus is a good fit for many in Australia and New Zealand)
Or read on for more info about these classes and what all is involved…
Questions & Answers
$59 USD (although if you prefer to pay in other currencies, I also accept the equivalent in AUD, CAD, EUR, or GBP)
For March 23rd, the class will be at the following time (convert to your local timezone as applicable!):
- 1:30 p.m. Pacific
- 4:30 p.m. Eastern
- 9:30 p.m. London, UK
- 6:30 a.m. Melbourne, AU (the next day, so March 16th or March 24th)
For April 11th (ie, the "early" class), it will be at the following time (convert to your local timezone as applicable!):
- 9 a.m. Pacific US
- 12 p.m. Eastern US
- 5 p.m. British Summer (London)
- 7 p.m. Eastern Europe
- 12 a.m. Australian Western (Perth) – April 12th from here down
- 2 a.m. Australian Eastern (Melbourne)
- 4 a.m. New Zealand (Auckland)
For April 28th (ie, the "late" class), it will be at the following time (convert to your local timezone as applicable!):
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4 p.m. Pacific US
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7 p.m. Eastern US
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12 a.m. British Summer (London) – April 29th from here down
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2 a.m. Eastern Europe
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7 a.m. Australian Western (Perth)
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9 a.m. Australian Eastern (Melbourne)
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11 a.m. New Zealand (Auckland)
I will send out a link via Dropbox that will allow you download and rewatch the video at your leisure. This link will be good for two weeks and then will be disabled, so be sure to download the video before the two weeks pass.
It depends on how these go. I'll continue to keep teaching this class until I run out of interested students, at which point I'll switch over to teaching Intermediate classes. Once I do make that switch, I'll make the Foundational class available as a video you can purchase; you will not be able to attend live in that case (of course!)
PayPal or Stripe. If you want to pay via PayPal, you can choose from AUD, CAD, EUR, GBP, or USD to pay in; if you want to pay via Stripe, you can only pay in USD.
$59 USD converts into the following:
- 88.99 AUD
- 80.99 CAD
- 54.99 EUR
- 48.99 GBP
I’ve done close to 400 individual consultations at this point, ranging from authors who’ve never published a book to authors who make seven figures a year, and everything in-between. If even 5% of the authors I’ve helped already knew everything I had to teach about metadata, I’d be shocked. I haven’t kept track of how many authors already knew this portion of things vs how many didn’t, but I can say that this foundational info is sadly not well-known in the author world, even among my consultation authors who regularly hit bestseller lists like the Wall Street Journal with every book release.
Maybe you’re part of that 5%! I can’t say. But I will say that most (most!!) authors can benefit from this class.
You betcha! Once I do a couple rounds of the foundational class, I’ll move onto an intermediate class with its own set of topics. Once I’ve helped everyone with that round who wants to learn from it, then I’ll dive into an advanced set of classes on a variety of topics.
It depends. When you look at the list of topics, does it seem like something we covered? I don’t necessarily cover these topics in every initial consultation with an author, depending on what the author’s needs are, so I can’t guarantee we talked about it. I’m not going to cover anything in this foundational class that is new, so if you’ve done a one-on-one with me and you think we talked about this already, then we almost assuredly have.
No, sorry. I was one of those annoying kids who hated the first couple months of school each fall, because every teacher insisted on reviewing what was taught the year before before moving onto new topics. If you’re taking the intermediate (or advanced) classes, I am going to expect that you already know the info from the previous classes, full stop. I hope you understand!
Here’s my contact form – please reach out! I’m happy to help however I can.
Once again, here are the current open classes:
- March 23rd sign-up form
- April 11th sign-up form (This is an “early” class and thus is a good fit for many in the UK and Europe)
- April 28th sign-up form (This is a “late” class and thus is a good fit for many in Australia and New Zealand)
The invoices are generated manually, so don’t be surprised if you don’t receive one right away. Can’t wait to help you be successful as a Wide author!