{"podcast":{"title":"Novel Marketing","slug":"novel-marketing-569504","podcast_index_feed_id":569504,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2253681.rss","website_url":"https://www.authormedia.com/","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/t517no6u8005rzmh9h7dqd6pbib2?.jpg","author":"Thomas Umstattd Jr.","episode_count":497,"summary":"The longest-running book marketing podcast in the world. This is the show for writers who want to build their platform, sell more books, and change the world with writing worth talking about. Whether you self publish or are with a traditional house, this podcast will make book promotion fun and easy. Thomas Umstattd Jr. interviews publishers, indie authors, and bestselling traditional authors about how to get published and sell more books.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/novel-marketing-569504"},"episode":{"title":"Why Your Book Isn’t Selling: Metadata","slug":"why-your-book-isn-t-selling-metadata","published_at":"2026-02-18T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/novel-marketing-569504/why-your-book-isn-t-selling-metadata","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/novel-marketing-569504","url":"https://www.authormedia.com/why-your-book-isnt-selling-metadata","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2253681/episodes/18684620-why-your-book-isn-t-selling-metadata.mp3","summary":"If your book isn’t selling, it may not be your writing. It may be your metadata. In this week’s episode of the Novel Marketing Podcast, you’ll hear from Dave Chesson, creator of Publisher Rocket, and learn about the hidden engine behind book sales on Amazon. Even if your book is well-written and professionally edited, Amazon doesn’t read your book. It reads your metadata. And if your metadata is unclear, inconsistent, or confusing, Amazon won’t show your book to readers, even if it’s amazing....","meta_description":"If your book isn’t selling, it may not be your writing. It may be your metadata. In this week’s episode of the Novel Marketing Podcast, you’ll hear from D…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3631,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/novel-marketing-569504/episodes/why-your-book-isn-t-selling-metadata/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/novel-marketing-569504/why-your-book-isn-t-selling-metadata.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}