I was talking to some fellow indie friends and friends considering going indie, and we started talking about the fact that Self-publishing becoming viable in the digital age is taking away a lot of fear with regards to publishing. I remember a few years ago when I very first started my writer blog, I was [...]
There is a habit among indie authors to deny that most self-published books suck as if this is an unfair assessment. It’s not an unfair assessment. It’s the truth. Most self-published books DO suck. Go to Smashwords and just start reading without filtering through any of it. Most of it is so appallingly bad you’ll [...]
One thing I say repeatedly as an indie is that self-publishing is hard work and it’s not for everyone. Even if it *is* for you, it’s still hard work, and if Rome wasn’t built in a day, your indie empire won’t be either. Publishing of any sort whether traditional or indie, is not “get rich [...]
It took Thomas Edison over 1,000 tries to solve his light bulb problem. He experimented and tweaked over and over until he got it right. What if he’d given up after attempt number 10? Or… what if he’d listened to someone else when they told him not to try a certain strategy because it was [...]
An indie author friend of mine, Kait Nolan, was talking about formatting on her blog recently and how it’s just not rocket science. She was speaking specifically about ebook formatting. And really, when we’re talking about Smashwords and Kindle, no, it’s not that hard. I will admit that my Kindle formatting equals: “Follow the Smashwords [...]
If you’ve done an ebook release and a print release, the next logical idea is an audio release. There are three different ways you can get audio out into the world for your book: podcast, selling audio rights, self-publishing an audiobook. 1. Podcast This is a fairly straight-forward DIY approach to getting audio out into [...]
I may have talked about this before, but it is really important for indie authors to unplug and decompress. The funny irony is that, while there were many reasons I chose to self-publish, one of them was that I didn’t want the pressure of working under someone else’s deadline. And yet, it’s hard to imagine [...]
A few weeks ago I went on about how I really don’t like book trailers (except for a few which have almost converted me to them). So it might come as a surprise that I actually made a video for the purposes of entertainment, but also obviously to market myself and my ideas. But this [...]