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That was the first thing. The lapping of water, the rustling of trees, the odd click and twitter of a bird. Logen opened his eyes a crack. Light, blurry bright through leaves. This was death? Then why did it hurt so much? His whole left side was throbbing.

He tried to take a proper breath, choked, coughed up water, spat out mud. He lay there for a moment, staring up at the grey sky beyond the black branches, breath wheezing in his raw throat. Still alive, in spite of the best efforts of nature, Shanka, men and beasts.

Soaking wet and flat on his back, he started to chuckle. Reedy, gurgling laughter. Alive he might be, but staying alive, that was another question.

He sat up, wincing at the pain. He tottered to his feet, leaning against the nearest tree trunk. He scraped the dirt out of his nose, his eyes, his ears.

He pulled up his wet shirt to take a look at the damage. His side was covered in bruises from the fall. Blue and purple stains all up his ribs. His leg was a mess. It hurt bad, but his foot still moved well enough, and that was the main thing. He still had his knife in the sheath at his belt, and he was mightily glad to see it.

He was on his own, in woods crawling with Flatheads. He had no idea where he was, but he could follow the river. The rivers all flowed north, from the mountains to the cold sea. Follow the river southwards, against the current. That was his only chance.

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But I would strongly encourage you to revise it so that it follows the format it will have in your manuscript, rather than just submitting the journal article as is.

Again, you can ask their preferences if you have the opportunity, but the safest route is to revise first. At minimum, you should make sure the argument advanced by the revised chapter relates intuitively to the overarching argument of your book. You will likely need to rework at least the introduction and conclusion of the article to make that relationship clear.

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The last thing I want is for someone to download the sample chapter, read a little bit of it, and then forget to come back and buy the book. Though unfortunately this happens all the time. So as the seller I have two goals after capturing their email address:. Subscribing, with the course box checked, signs you up for an email course that sends out 5 to 8 emails spread out over 30 days.

I send the first email about 2 days after the subscriber has downloaded the sample chapter. In that first email I include a reminder with a link to read the sample chapter before continuing with educational content. Each email is useful and educational often including more sample content every few emails I include a soft sell to the book.

Then I dedicate at least one email in the sequence to a hard sell. A shorter message that focuses entirely on the benefits of the book and directly asks for the sale.

You can set this up in many email providers, but ConvertKit is the only one specifically designed to streamline this process. Create and name a new form, then fill out each of the text areas.

You can customize everything from the title to the exact text on each button. Move to the Settings tab and upload the PDF directly in ConvertKit or click the URL button if you already have it hosted somewhere and want to paste in the link.

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Go to the Courses tab and create a new course. Once you name the course it will be automatically pre-filled with emails at recommended intervals. Sending up to one email per day until the subscriber has been caught up. I just add a lesson whenever I have time. Every subscriber will get it, and new subscribers will get it exactly in the timed sequence specified.

There you can see an option to select a course for that form. Select the one you just created. That will add a small text area onto your form itself, so go to the Content tab for your form and customize the text that was added in.

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Sustaining sales after a launch is always difficult, but this is one of my favorite methods. Setup correctly it should continue to drive sales for many months to come. Here are the important points from the article:. Finally, if you want to learn more about building an audience and selling a book or course, take a look at Authority.

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Email courses If you were paying attention you may have noticed another checkbox on those subscription forms. So what exactly does that checkbox do? So as the seller I have two goals after capturing their email address: Keep the book top of mind Provide more value to convince them to purchase Both of these can be done through an automated email sequence.

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Here are the steps: 1. The rivers all flowed north, from the mountains to the cold sea. Follow the river southwards, against the current.

That was his only chance. It would be cold up there, this time of year. Deadly cold. He looked down at his bare feet.

It was just his luck that the Shanka had come while he had his boots off, trimming his blisters. He had to go back to the camp. Something he could use to survive. That was an awful lot of hoping, but he had no choice. He never had any choices. It had started to rain by the time Logen found the place.

Spitting drops that plastered his hair to his skull, kept his clothes wet through. He pressed himself against a mossy trunk and peered out towards the camp, heart pounding, fingers of his right hand curled painful tight around the slippery grip of his knife.

He saw the blackened circle where the fire had been, half-burned sticks and ash trampled round it. He saw the big log Threetrees and Dow had been sitting on when the Flatheads came. He saw odd bits of torn and broken gear scattered across the clearing. He counted three dead Shanka crumpled on the ground, one with an arrow poking out of its chest.

Three dead ones, but no sign of any alive. That was lucky. Just lucky enough to survive, as always. Still, they might be back at any moment. He had to be quick. Logen scuttled out from the trees, casting about on the ground.

He snatched them up and dragged them onto his freezing feet, hopping around, almost slipping in his haste. His coat was there too, wedged under the log, battered and scarred from ten years of weather and war, torn and stitched back together, missing half a sleeve.

His pack was lying shapeless in the brush nearby, its contents strewn out down the slope. He crouched, breathless, throwing it all back inside. A length of rope, his old clay pipe, some strips of dried meat, needle and twine, a dented flask with some liquor still sloshing inside.

All good. All useful. There was a tattered blanket snagged on a branch, wet and half caked in grime. Logen pulled it up, and grinned. His old, battered cookpot was underneath. Lying on its side, kicked off the fire in the fight maybe.

He grabbed hold of it with both hands. It felt safe, familiar, dented and blackened from years of hard use. It had followed him all through the wars, across the North and back again.

They had all cooked in it together, out on the trail, all eaten out of it. Forley, Grim, the Dogman, all of them. Logen looked over the campsite again. Three dead Shanka, but none of his people. Maybe they were still out there. Maybe if he took a risk, tried to look—. He knew better than that.

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