by admin | Apr 4, 2026 | Happily Ever Indie
Most romance authors treat their Amazon product page like a storefront window — something to make look attractive so passing readers will stop and buy. That’s not wrong. But it’s incomplete in a way that costs authors real discoverability. Your product...
by admin | Apr 4, 2026 | Happily Ever Indie
Picture this. You’ve just finished a book. Not just finished — devoured. You read the last page at 2am with that particular ache that comes from a story ending too soon, and before you’ve even set your Kindle down you’re already opening Amazon to...
by admin | Apr 3, 2026 | Happily Ever Indie
A month before my debut novel released, three authors from my local romance writers group took me out for coffee to celebrate. The conversation shifted quickly, as it always does, from characters and craft to marketing. And these three had the same solution....
by admin | Jul 14, 2026 | Happily Ever Indie
Everything in the Happily Ever Indie series so far has been framed around Amazon: optimize your product page, your keywords, your categories — to sell more books, by treating Amazon’s algorithm as a recommendation engine, feeding it the signals it needs to put...
by admin | Jul 14, 2026 | Happily Ever Indie
Nobody told me when I decided to self-publish my debut novel — all 103,000 words of it — just how much freaking writing I’d have to do about my novel. It’s not just the blurb (although, let’s be serious, how is it harder to write the 100-word...
by admin | Jul 13, 2026 | Happily Ever Indie
As the founder of Love At First Search, I help coaches, consultants, and service businesses show up in search and AI-generated results. The strategies I teach there — entity authority, consistent metadata, third-party citations, distributed web presence — work...
by admin | May 13, 2026 | Happily Ever Indie
If you’ve been watching your Amazon numbers with increasing dread lately, you’re not imagining it, and Amazon almost certainly isn’t singling you out. Since 2024, Amazon has made significant changes to the algorithm that determines which books get...
by admin | Apr 19, 2026 | Happily Ever Indie
Your product page has two jobs. The first is converting the reader who just landed on it. The second — the one most authors completely ignore — is pulling that reader forward into your series. A reader who buys Book 1 and immediately borrows Book 2 is worth...
by admin | Apr 19, 2026 | Happily Ever Indie
Of all the behavioral signals Amazon tracks, read-through rate is the one that most clearly separates authors whose books keep selling from authors whose launches spike and flatline. It’s also the one most authors don’t think about until something is...
by admin | Apr 9, 2026 | Happily Ever Indie
If you’ve spent any time in indie author communities, you’ve probably heard some version of this: Amazon’s algorithm is especially brutal for romance. More competitive. More volatile. More unforgiving when you make a wrong move. That’s true....
by admin | Apr 7, 2026 | Happily Ever Indie
There’s a trend I’ve seen among romance authors: You post consistently. You show up on social media, send your newsletter, maybe run a promotion. You make some sales. And then… you lose momentum. Maybe you don’t have as much time to promote...
by admin | Apr 5, 2026 | Happily Ever Indie
We’ve covered a lot of ground in this Glow up: Amazon Product Page Optimization series. Cover. Blurb. Categories. Keywords. A+ content. Each one a distinct element of your Amazon product page, each one doing specific work for both readers and the algorithm. This...
by admin | Apr 5, 2026 | Happily Ever Indie
When I published Peppermint Bark, No Bite, my A+ content looked like this: Three horizontal banner panels, each featuring a close crop of the cover illustration. “Grace finally gets her Christmas miracle.” “From the most reluctant Santa.”...
