My today's guest is Mark Dawson - the author of John Milton series. Until recently, Mark worked in the London film industry. He now writes full-time and is working on three series.

I found out about Mark Dawson few weeks ago, when I read the article about him in Forbes. Last year Amazon paid Mark $450k. I tried to find out how did he make it and which were the main components of his success.

In this interview we you will find out

• Where did Mark gain knowledge about self-publishing and book marketing  
• When he realized that things start happening
• How did Mark build his e mail list 
• How Mark manages to be so prolific 
• How Mark makes sure that his readers want to read the next book in the series 
• How to use Facebook ads
• How long did it take Mark to become full-time author 
• Which is the most powerful marketing tool for authors 
• How much money Mark spends to publish each of his books 

Useful Links

Self Publishing Formula (Mark's free videos)

Mark Dawson's website

The Self Publishing Podcast

Rocking Self Publishing podcast

The Creative Penn podcast

You can get free audiobook here