My Life As A Writer: Geek Gab Gets "Galaxy's Edge" Author Nick Cole!

As I post this, the show is about to begin. See you in the chat, and I'll edit this after the fact with any observations.

Good points to takeaway:

• Corporate owners don't care about the IPs they hold. That's where the suck sets in. Stick to audiences that care. (SJWs don't.)
• Aging first-wave gamers will have money when they retire. Expect the nostalgia remakes and homages to pick up in 20 years, assuming everything doesn't collapse by then. Because that audience (a) cares and (b) HAS MONEY.
• Nick Cole & Jason Anspach have successfully turned Galaxy's Edge into a proper franchise entity now that other well-known mil-SF authors are coming on board to pen books.
• You make a Boba Fett, and you get Fett Fandom.
• Having stand-alone side-stories that compliment your main series has proven to aid the visibility of the main series.
• Having a landing page where all your stuff can be found is good. Having two or three is better.
• Amazon screwed with the algorithim to emphasize paid adds over organic discovery, but the latter does still happen.
• The keywords and Also Boughts got depreciated due to hustlers speed-publishing crap to game the system and stay on top of the algorithim to maximize sales and thus payouts.
• Selfish actors gaming the system are doing damage at the expense of the whole--Tragedy of the Commons at work--and that drives algorithim changes to police and curb it.
• Writer Culture is a lot like Fandom: catty, petty, and Mean Girls levels of stupid- especially when we are better off cheerleading and boosting each other.
• Get to know your audience as best you can; they're going to be far better at making you successful than most other efforts in marketing ever will.