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How to sell thousands of books with Marcin Pilarczyk
I sold only five books in September. Sigh!
I’m telling you that up front because I said it on air yesterday, live, to an author who sold 8,131 copies in 2025. I’ve done Amazon ads, TikTok, newsletters, author networking. Everything short of dancing on camera. So I asked Marcin Pilarczyk, who writes from Warsaw and was laid off twice before building a sci-fi portfolio, what I was missing.
His first answer surprised me: five sales a month already puts me ahead of most indie authors, many of whom never sell a single copy. With roughly 10,000 new books hitting Amazon every day, by his estimate…
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