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Category Archives: self-publishing
How to Get Started in Self Publishing…
Getting Started in Self-Publishing Your Books There’s a great deal being said about this area. My own books on Lulu – http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/robertworstell(shameful self-promotion, yes I know) gives me some years of experience in this area. And for so long, it’s been … Continue reading
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Building a successful story you can publish
Building a story you can successfully self-publish Writing and self-publishing a story isn’t for the faint of heart, it has as much to do with persistence as it has to do with know-how and talent. In these days of plentiful … Continue reading
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So You’d Like to Sell a Million Books…
How to Sell A Million Books Step by step lessons from CJ Lyons on how to get your million books sold.Just wanted to get this into one place so everyone can find this.Try it for yourself – suspend disbelief, and … Continue reading
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Why Self-Publishing on Kobo’s Writing Life Makes Sense
Just discovered this site recently and was very impressed. If you already have a epub file, it’s simpler than anything else to get it uploaded and on offer internationally. They are already known for global sales, this lets you in … Continue reading
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Getting success with your self-published ebooks on Kobo
Self-publishing ebooks on Kobo – Success! One of the fastest and easiest way you can publish your ebooks is on Kobo – better than any other one I’ve found. Here’s some of the reasons why: eReader eReaderx 4 years ago … Continue reading
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Can You Get Promotion as a Local Self-Published Author?
Local Authors Get the Limelight: Self-Published? Getting a local author book promoted is probably easier with self-publishing. With Lulu and Create Space to get your hardcopy versions out (how do you autograph an ebook?!?) – you can quickly turn on … Continue reading
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The Odd Fascination with Literary Agents by Self-Publishing Authors
Self-Publishers Need a Book Agent? Really? What is it exactly that “literary agents” do again? Oh, they take a percentage of your income to make sure you are represented by book publishers. Come again? Highgate Cemetery, East (15) Tony Worrall … Continue reading
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Successfully Self-Publish Your Story – Starting Today!
Building a story you can successfully self-publish The story begins with your friends, family, and devoted readers – it’s what resides in their heart, that you have to coax out, which will tell you the steps you need to take … Continue reading
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Wattpad Launching Author Books Through Self Publishing?
Can Wattpad Launch Self-Published Authors? Still doing my research on Wattpad. The reports say this is a big underground hit – way below the mainstream, but key to new authors (and older ones) to get feedback and critique on their … Continue reading
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4 Simple Ways to Help Readers Find, Read, and Buy Your Self-Published Book
3 Reader-Driven Sites to Follow 4 Ways by Authors What any author wants is readers. And the wildly successful authors have a fan base they nurture. So it’s logical to simply utilize existing reader-driven community sites to build your fan … Continue reading
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Audience (or lack of it) is Driving Traditional Publishing Authors to DIY.
How Money Changes Hands in Self-Publishing Ok, so we are on the cusp of some severe paradigm shifts (means hold on, things are changing real quick these days…) What’s the vital points to hold onto now? hand money stayupcowboy 4 … Continue reading
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How to Blog Your Book – or How to Self-Publish Your Book and Blog It.
How and Why to Blog First, Then Self-Publish Your Book Quite simple, really: you are already (or should be) blogging as a natural extension of your writing (at least posting to Wattpad…) So why not simply take your posts and … Continue reading
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Social Media and Promoting Your Indie Book – How To’s
How to Tweet Your Booksales Up, or Like or Plus them there. Social Media is touted by many as the way Indie Authors can get fast recognition and booksales. They’re part-right, only. Social media is just tool out of your … Continue reading
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How Indie Authors Find (More) Readers: Goodreads
Goodreads: Probably the best place for Indie Authors to mingle and find new readers Of all the social sites which service the reading public, none seems more potent than Goodreads to do an author good. It’s not without it’s tricks, … Continue reading
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Bittorrent Book Marketing – the way of the future?
How to Market a Book via Bittorrent – the Tim Ferriss Way [Update: Here’s the how to make your own BitTorrent bundle to promote your ebooks. http://goo.gl/7KmdJg] These days, a book isn’t just about the words you used to craft … Continue reading
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How to Leave a Nicely Walled Garden – Through the Cracks…
Beating Amazon at their own Game (or: how to game Amazon…) Studies show that Amazon isn’t what it used to be. Statistics are doing their usual song-and-dance, but tell that the big box giant may be around (or even below) … Continue reading
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Beginning of a New Book Series
How to Write, Publish, and Sell Your Books Online That’s the general area we’ll be covering. Research is pretty much wrapped up now, and it just has to be laid out and edited. Best way to do this is by … Continue reading
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How to Get Your Self-Published Book Discovered (Legacy Publishers: Hints…)
(graphic from http://paidcontent.org/2013/01/17/why-online-book-discovery-is-broken-and-how-to-fix-it/) While legacy publishers are having a hard time of getting their book discovered, indie self-publishers don’t have to. A quote from the paidContent.org review of a Digital Book World presentation (graphic above): Sixty-one percent of book purchases by frequent … Continue reading
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Book III Outline – “How to Sell a Book Online”
(Just to make a note of things. Yes, I also have some outlines for Book I and II, but this came together today, so I thought to make a record of it. Feel free to ask me questions about this … Continue reading
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How Amazon “Review-Addiction” is Wasting Your Time
photocredit: “bastique” from Flickr Getting a grip on Amazon’s multiplying sock-puppet problem. I’ve been doing some research today on Amazon’s review scene. This is because it’s become clear that the conventional wisdom is “if you want to make a decent … Continue reading
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J’APE – the parody of self-publishing – first draft
Well, you’re either going to be amused or offended.I didn’t originally plan for the book to come out this way – it was going to be a “serious” piece. But here’s the first draft. The parody part has to be … Continue reading
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2nd Draft Arrived today. New title, new cover.
–>Well, it’s a new approach to this, but the content is proofed based on the first. One suggestion ( +Rob Gol ) pointed out the parody error. So I lost it. Did the keyword research I needed and came up with … Continue reading
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Sales Page for “Just Publish!” (as it’s now known…)
(Thought you’d want to see the blurb which is previewing on my site right now, but won’t show up on Amazon until the book wraps up.) “Just Publish! Ebook Creation for Indie Authors” Learn how to write, design, format, upload, … Continue reading
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3 Views on Publishing – To Hell with Authorities
There are 3 views on (self-)publishing – leaving out those who don’t publish at all. 1. Traditional publishing, which is top-heavy and expensive and almost impossible to get a contract with – and has agents to take a percentage of … Continue reading
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Tips to Increase Direct Sales From Google Play/Books
An Idea Came Up to Increase Your Sales and Commissions from Lulu I had last told you that I didn’t get much sales from Lulu, but they had the highest commissions. That’s if you use them to distribute your books … Continue reading
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How to Keep the IRS From Nickel and Diming Your Book Income
A Little-Known Way to Get the IRS Off your Self-Publishing Back (Graphic: DonkeyHotkey) Just a (hopefully) short note about author earnings on Lulu. Stumbled on this while researching my recent posts and thought you’d want to know. Disclaimer: this isn’t … Continue reading
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Getting Booksales on Amazon – and Everywhere Else
There are two distinct venues for selling books – Amazon and Everywhere Else. (photo: Nicholas Eckhart) This separation was made clear to me when I worked to publish a large handful of books to Amazon that I’d already published elsewhere. … Continue reading
A New Test of Successful Book Publishing and Marketing – From Scratch
Starting a new and successful book from scratch and marketing it – all as a test and lesson (Photo: Thomas Leuthard) We’re starting a new book, with a supporting book series, and are going to show you from start to … Continue reading
Another distributor for self-published authors – Feedbooks
Found this outlet for new authors (again) – original works can publish on Feedbooks Strictly speaking, it looks like almost anyone can publish there, since I see that there are many public domain books published at various prices. Why don’t … Continue reading
Secret to starting big projects? Finish what you’ve started.
It’s hit me again, just as I predicted: Incomplete (self-publishing) projects will haunt and distract you from anything else you want to start. (Photo credit: unknown…) This includes small projects as well as (and very definitely) any big projects. If … Continue reading
The Great Amazon Suck – Why Other eBook Distributors Don’t
How to Blow-Off Any Chance at a Fan Base. (Cover: Seattle Weekly) [Rant Alert] For all the hype about Amazon, you will seldom see any fan clubs for Amazon or its execs. (Just lots of those “smiley” boxes.) That became … Continue reading
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“Edward’s First Book” – A Children’s Story About Self-Publishing.
(Just a first draft. Illustrations to follow.) – – – – Edward would wake up at night because of the voices in his head. They weren’t unpleasant voices, but they did want something. They wanted to be heard. Not just … Continue reading
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Your Ebook self-pubilshing future just happened.
This is the future of ebook self-publishing – here and now. Why wait for the big corporations to get their ebook readers which will support epub 3 so you can have video and audio along with your book? What GalleyCat … Continue reading
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Authors: How to Podcast On a Lean Budget
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here Authors can get better discovery (and sales) for their books when they podcast. Sadly, the tips and tricks on how to do this for low cost or free … Continue reading
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The Greatest Evil in Self-Publishing – and 4 Methods to Fight It
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here The world’s greatest writers and composers have died because of it. It’s caused Wars to be lost and Nations defeated. It’s present in most people’s lives – and … Continue reading
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The Curse of Printed Art Books – and How to Remove it (Case Study 09)
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here I can hear my Art Teachers “tut-tutting” in my head now. They were all very good at being constructive in their criticism. You knew you hit the high-level … Continue reading
Cracking Video for Book Discovery – a Sidebar
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here Brian Clark’s two-year old podcast (see last post) set a high bar. But it makes more sense than all the advice I’ve run across so far – from … Continue reading
How I Was Wrong About Marketing (Case Study13)
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here And this happens more than I care to admit. I was wrong, wrong, wrong. Again, it’s conventional wisdom that I swallowed years ago and has been an unshakeable, … Continue reading
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I owe it all to you – Thanks. (Some notes on future-past.)
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here You are who I do all this work for. Really. So this blog post and podcast is a thank you note. What did you do to deserve this? … Continue reading
How to Publish (and Sell) Your Next Book Back-Ass-Ward – 7 Steps to Breakthrough Success.
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here With all the false “conventional wisdom” out there, it’s surprising that you’d be reading something like this. I mean, all that stuff is supposed to work, isn’t it? … Continue reading
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How to Self-Publish from India: A Case Study
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here How to Self-Publish from India: A Case Study It started when this reader from Chennai, India emailed me about one of my books being ripped off. He was … Continue reading
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Self Publishing: Employing Emissaries and Spies for More Profit
If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here Spying is probably the oldest profession (well, excepting maybe one other). The most widely reprinted book on warfare (Sun Tzu’s Art of War) has a whole chapter on … Continue reading
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How to Market Your Book Online – My Last Recipe
This podcast available for download. This is the (final) recipe for marketing a book online. And because of the breakthroughs below, you may not hear from me for awhile. But don’t worry, I’ll give you links at the end so … Continue reading
Lessons Learned from Steve Scott
When I last left you, I was involved in an over-excited discovery about how to create an online empire from a single year’s worth of concentrated effort. Then I kept going for three more days, sorting out all the questions … Continue reading
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Trolls and Bullies, in the Kindle Author Graveyard
Would you believe me if I said I had proof of Amazon KDP being a bully? How about that they are trolls as well? Well, it happened to me like this: I had a book up which got a DMCA complaint … Continue reading
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The Four Whys and Four Hows of Successful Self-Publishing
The Four Whys and Four Hows of Successful Self-Publishing After now over a decade of self-publishing, I thought to give you some hints about what you’re up against. It isn’t all that pretty, but it can be made to work. The … Continue reading
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Reviving Frankenstein: Making PLR Publishing Profitable
Reviving Frankenstein: Making PLR Publishing Profitable PLR is long from dead, although the amount of really bad stuff out there can make you wish it was. It still sells. I have a certain set of PLR ebooks which continue to … Continue reading
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How to Shift into Online Business Gears You Probably Don’t Know Exist
Imagine that you had a car that only had two speeds – reverse, and low. Wouldn’t that be frustrating? You’d probably be able to go faster backwards than you could forwards. Yet this is the scene that most businesses have. Because … Continue reading
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The Hummingbird That Protects You From Amazon Going South
Because you never know when things will go to hell. Being prepared is a good option to keep open. You’ve probably heard this pharse or some version: “Plan your work, work your plan and always carry a spare.” Another one … Continue reading
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BitTorrent Bundles Becomes the Ultimate Book Distributor
BitTorrent Bundles Becomes the Ultimate Book Distributor I’ve spent some time discussing (and dissing) Tim Ferris for having to promote his work on BitTorrent because he published through CreateSpace instead of Lulu. But you can’t fault the results. As a … Continue reading
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