Nov 25, 2019 | Marketing, My friends' Guest Posts
This is a guest post by Linda Cartwright. You may remember her from her recent post, Self-Publishing Basics. Linda is an author and a freelance writer with a background in education. She lives in Seattle, teaches creative writing classes online and supports e-learning...
Oct 13, 2019 | Marketing, My friends' Guest Posts
I think every author should read this guest post by Joel Syder. Joel is a consulting writer and editor at Dissertation Help and PhD Kingdom. He enjoys helping people pursue their career and lifestyle objectives and is a successful published author. His articles are...
Sep 3, 2019 | Marketing, Publishing, Writing
I was lucky enough to be sent an ARC for The Indie Writer’s Handbook by one of my favorite authors, David Wind. David has included a kind mention to this blog in his book, which is specifically aimed at Indies, hence the ARC. “A great primer for new Indie...
Aug 25, 2019 | Marketing, My friends' Guest Posts
This is a guest post by Linda Cartwright. Linda is an educator and a writer on the verge of coming out as an independent author after years of freelancing and ghost-writing. Her darkest secret is that writing is only her second favorite thing to do… after reading. You...
Feb 17, 2018 | Publishing
I had promised you a post detailing how to move your books from Createspace to KDP Print. Here are step-by-step instructions, courtesy of Createspace/Amazon: Specifically, the video above explains how to: avoid getting your book listed in two places (your book will...
Jul 23, 2017 | Marketing, Publishing
Last month, Written Word Media shared the results of yet another extensive author survey they’ve run, to tease out the strategies and tactics successful authors were using to achieve their success. The survey compared authors making over $100,000 in a single...
Dec 21, 2015 | Publishing
Fake Reviews Friends have been notifying me of changes in the Amazon review policy. “Are they trying to eliminate indies?” a worried friend asked me. Before I go into details, let me first explain the problem from Amazon’s point of view. As...
