Lindsay - January 16, 2020This week, we’re joined by romantic comedy author Jami Albright. She is a born and raised Texas girl, former actress and comedian, and writes the multiple award-winning Brides on the Run series.
She published the first novel in 2017 and published the fourth in the series last summer. We’re going to be talking to her about how she got off to such a good start and how she continues to sell well enough to make a full-time living on about one book a year.
Our questions for Jami:
- What took you from stand-up comedy and acting to writing romantic comedy?
- What are some books or movies that influenced you?
- Is the romantic comedy category as competitive as it sounds, and were you daunted about jumping into such a big sub-genre of romance?
- You launched your first two novels in 2017 and did well right from the start. What did that first launch look like and how did you get the ball rolling?
- How much research did you do into self-publishing and marketing before publishing?
- Have you always been exclusive with Amazon and in KDP Select/Kindle Unlimited? Do you have a contingency plan in case anything ever happens with that?
- You have your novels priced at $5.99, which is on the high end for an indie author, especially in romance where there are lots of 99-cent titles. Was that always your price point? What made you choose it?
- What kind of advertising do you do for book launches these days? How much do you leave running in between books?
- Since romance readers are known to be voracious and many can devour a book a day (or more), do you get any backlash from readers when you only publish once a year?
- What marketing tactics have you tried that haven’t worked that well?
- You rely a lot on Facebook ads – could you tell us what kind of copy and images you use and what works best for you?
- Are there other advertising or social media platforms that you find beneficial?
- Aside from Facebook ads, what are your go-to methods for finding new readers?
- As someone who does author coaching, are there some mistakes from newer authors that you see over and over? What are they?
- If you were to write in a different genre, how would you go about getting started and launching anew?
You can visit Jami on her website, where she does some author coaching, and you can get her Brides on the Run series on Amazon. The first book is Running from a Rockstar.
Jami is also starting a new podcast for authors on the topic of things they wished they’d known when they started — you can visit the site here.
In the meantime, don’t forget to join our “Six Figure Authors” Facebook group.
