Apr 8, 2014 | Blog hops tours & reblogs, Marketing
I keep receiving tweets and DMs with shortened links that lead to non-existent pages. Even worse, they lead to the kind of page that crashes your PC and has you worried that you’ve caught a virus. Obviously, it’s not my friends that have sent me this, but...
Apr 4, 2014 | Marketing, Publishing
About two years ago I was part of a company that wanted to finance start-ups. I saw quite a few projects and ideas, some of them really amazing -the type that made me go “why didn’t I think of that?” and “Now, that is so useful, I wonder how...
Mar 29, 2014 | Marketing, Publishing
When I used Amazon to publish Year 18: The Schism, the first book in my dark epic fantasy series, Pearseus, I was asked whether I wanted to use DRM for the book or not. I was also warned that I would be unable to change the setting in the future. So, just what is...
Mar 29, 2014 | Marketing, Publishing
A few days ago I came across a fascinating report regarding the future of e-Books and e-Readers by PriceWaterhouseCoopers. The analysis itself is somewhat dated (2010) but the survey gave some interesting pointers for us, self-published authors. So I will be posting...
Mar 26, 2014 | Entertainment, Marketing
I don’t usually spend a lot of time on Facebook; I think that, although I was posting things there, I felt I was probably not doing something right (which is a euphemism for saying that I probably did so many things wrong, that I didn’t realize how wrong I was!) ...
Mar 24, 2014 | Marketing, Publishing, Writing
The Write Life presented the definitive list of 100 Best Websites for Writers, broken into 11 categories: blogging, business and career, copywriting, creativity and craft, freelancing, literary agents, marketing, publishing, travel writing, writing advice and writing...
Mar 20, 2014 | Marketing, Publishing
Guy Kawasaki, well-known author of APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur – How to Publish a Book, has written a bullet-list article on how to price your book. Bottom line? It depends on the book, so it’s pretty much a case of trial and error for each author....
