Building a Sustainable Author Career with Victorine Lieske

The biggest mistake Victorine Lieske made wasn’t a book that flopped. It was a book that took off, with no newsletter to catch the readers. On this week’s Zen and the Art of Self Publishing, she gets specific about what she’d do before a breakout and after one: Build the funnel first, with a freebie that only real fans want (not a gift card giveaway) Write in a stable trope instead of the fad everyone is crowding into Think twice before a side experiment under your main name. Her YA series pulled down sales in her core brand Put audiobooks on YouTube as one long video, not chapter by chapter