Take Advantage Of Smorgasbord’s Free Promos in 2017

Jan 25, 2017 | Marketing

Sally Cronin of Smorgasbord is a tireless supporter of writers in general and a wonderful friend of Indies in particular. She regularly offers for free services that others charge an arm and a leg for. For example, in 2016 she built the Cafe and Bookstore which now...

The Benefits Of KDP Select: One Author’s Experience

Jan 23, 2017 | Marketing

In my last post, I mentioned alfageek’s blog, where Joshua, aka alfageek, generously shares his book marketing experience with his blog’s readers. Last week, he returned to KDP Select after experimenting with leaving for a while. As a number of you have...

Alfageek Shares His Bookbub Ads Experience

Jan 21, 2017 | Marketing

I discovered alfageek’s blog fairly recently, but I’m sure glad I did. Joshua, aka alfageek, generously shares his book marketing experience with his blog’s readers. His main marketing venue is Twitter Ads (more on that in a future post), but he...

#PoweredByIndie: Amazon’s Latest Indie Initiative

Jan 9, 2017 | Marketing

Chris McMullen alerted me to a brand new Amazon initiative that aims at supporting Indie authors: the #PoweredByIndie hashtag. Amazon is encouraging indie authors to use the #PoweredByIndie hashtag on relevant social media posts, namely your own writing resolutions...

Amazon Further Tightens Review Rules

Dec 2, 2016 | Marketing

My reviewer friend, C, aka the happy meerkat, recently notified me of some further tweaks in Amazon’s review policy. Most of them make perfect sense, yet a couple raise concerns. The new rules can be read here in their entirety but here are the new points: If...

How to Use the Holidays to Sell More Books

Nov 16, 2016 | Marketing

Written word media recently published a great post with ideas on how to take advantage of holiday marketing trends to sell your books. With Christmas fast approaching, I figured this is a great time to have a look at the main points: 1. Between mid-November and early...

56 Free Photo Websites

Oct 8, 2016 | Maps and Infographics, Marketing

Mark Crosling of Strategic Content recently published the ultimate guide for all your free photo needs. Listing 56 websites, you can use it to download high-quality photos at no cost. All the listed free photo websites have been summarized to include information...