The Winding Road That Lead to Aggie Teaching Authors
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If Aggie Villanueva learns it she ends up teaching it.
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When she succeeds in something it won’t be long until
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she’ll be teaching YOU how to do the same.
The desire to share goes back to the late 70′s. As Aggie learned to write she started writing clubs. One author answered the question: If you were stranded on a desert island what would you want to have with you? The writer said, “I’d want Aggie with me. Not only would she keep me entertained with her never ending interesting stories, but she’d probably think of a creative way to get off the blasted island.”
This didn’t reach enough people for Aggie’s appetite so she founded the Mid-American Fellowship of Christian Writer three-day conference and directed that for four years until health issues prevented it. So she settled for assistant director for a three-day conference in Wichita, KS for the next several years.
Then came the Information Highway. Aggie was finally in her element. She could sharewhat she learned with the world inexpensively.
Sharing: that’s also how her fine art photography career began in 2007 – she just wanted to share the beauty she photographed and is now represented in galleries across the nation. Though Aggie had two novels published by Thomas Nelson in the 1980′s, one before she was 30, when she self-published her novel, Rightfully Mine: God’s Equal Rights Amendment, she must struggle and labor as an amateur to promote it to an online world who never heard of her.
So she founded Visual Arts Junction blog February 2009 to share what she learned about promotion. By the end of the same year the blog was voted #5 at Preditors & Editors in the “Writer’s Resource” category.
April 2010, 9 months after publishing Rightfully Mine, it hit category bestselling status in two Kindle books categories and one Amazon print books category.
Aggies 20,000 social media followers so loved her blog’s information that her retweet rate is always 98 percentile. Followers begged for more promotion help so she founded her author publicist company, Promotion a la Carte, July 2010. The company was so well received that after 5 months it was voted #2 at Preditors & Editors in the “Promotion Company & Promotion Resources” category. She is also phasing the VAJ blog into the new Promotion a la Carte Blog.
Over her 35 year writing career Aggie learned her own effective brand of rewriting and polishing her work and wanted to share that knowledge. Creating a manuscript she labored to cut away everything irrelevant and produced the shortest how-to book ever because that’s what she would want to read. (See humorous commercial for the book here.) Following her own advice, when Aggie completed the first draft it was about three times longer than the rewritten published version.
Villanueva self-published the how-to book, The Rewritten Word: How to Sculpt Literary Art No Matter The Genre, and paid close attention to the categories she placed the book into both at Amazon print bookstore and the Kindle bookstore. They are completely different functions and print versions required much correspondence with Amazon.
Little more than one month after publishing The Rewritten Word hit best seller in three Kindle categories, and has remained a bestseller in at least one-two of those categories since. Glimpsing the vital role these Amazon/Kindle categories play in making your books available to be tallied for bestselling status only if they are in the proper categories, and how few authors or even publishing houses know about a it, Villanueva set out to recreate the process in easy to follow steps.
The results; a vital industry report in her Working Amazon series, “How Choosing Categories Wisely Got me Two Best Sellers in One Year & Can do the Same for YOU.” Villanueva released this report, covering both print and Kindle books at Amazon, to the acclaim of professional publicist who immediately blogged recommending all authors read this information. See all the vital industry reports by Aggie and Nanci Arvizu.
Which brings everything full circle: If Aggie Villanueva learns it she ends up teaching it. When she succeeds in something it won’t be long until she’ll be teaching YOU how to do the same. And authors scamper to learn from her.
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