Guest Post: Ken Preston: Paths To Self-Publishing 2007 and Now
The path to publishing success, one book at a time. I published my first book, in paperback, in the summer of 2007, four months before Amazon released the first generation Kindle in the US. The publishing world has changed a…
The Fan Fiction Launch
Taking advantage of fan fiction publishing opportunities to start developing a following Now that we understand why fan fiction can prove useful to you as a writer, and have discussed some ways in which…
Reliability and Validity: A Lesson for the Publishing Writer
Everyday we are bombarded with statistics or absolute statements telling us how relevant or accurate certain treatments or exercise programs are even in books we read- I recommend The Essential Guide to Getting…
Publishing Success: A Writer’s Wresponsibility
So, you wrote a book. It is not an easy feat by any means, but as we have said time and time again on this blog: that in no way guarantees success. So you wrote a really good book. Maternal…
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better
Why being able to publish and being successful at it are two totally different things With the excessive number of outlets for self-publishing available to writers today (nearly 42 MILLION Google search results for “self publishing companies”) it’s no…
Look at Your Life, Look at Your Choices…
Making the “right” choices for your life as a writer Perhaps the most important decision you’ll have to make when you are living a life of writing is what that really means to you. With anything that we love…
We Mean Self-Publishing Business
Self-publishing writers and their unexpected entrepreneurship As writers we often fall into the same trap as other professions: From singers to doctors! We’re good at something, hell… we’re great at it! But unless you understand the industry you are…
Checklist to Self-Publishing Success!
How to Decide if Self-Publishing is for You Self-publishing is a practice that has been around for many years and can be an appealing option for many authors. So far this month, we have discussed possible options for self-publishing…