Should You Self-Publish Your Book With CreateSpace?
CreateSpace is part of the ever growing Amazon umbrella of companies. Unlike Xlibris or iUniverse or AuthorHouse, if you simply want to have your book self-published under the ISBN of CreateSpace, or simply don’t care to use the services they…
Perils of Writers, or, Have I Got a Sale For You
How helpful are Twitter and a professional Facebook in increasing sales of your book? Unless you are Kiera Cass, Terry Brooks, John Grisham, or George Takei, what you have to offer to readers on Twitter and Facebook will not help…
The Kindness of Strangers
Why it is so hard to self-publish and earn money on a book? I’ve heard so many numbers, I’m not sure what to think. This is one of the reader questions submitted for this month. It seems like a simple…
15 Reader Questions Answered
This month, on Living a Life of Writing, we opened our doors for reader questions about publishing, self-publishing, numbers, writing and just generally what it is like to be a writer. Most of these questions have to do with “numbers”…
One Book = More Risk?
We’ve all heard a comment to the effect of “wow, you’ve published a book? When will the next one be out?” Sounds like they have a lot of confidence in your work, but it is natural that there needs to…
You Can Make Money Blogging If You’re Willing
How can you make money blogging if so many people use a form of ad-blocker on their websites? Most people are ‘ad blind’ to boot. How is it possible to get the most information to improve your website or your…
The Hidden Cost of Self-Publishing
What is a hidden cost of self-publishing? The time and energy it takes to write and publish anything worthwhile. That’s one example which is a hidden cost publishing. It’s not a bad cost, but there are others which can be…
Will Doing More on a Blog Earn More Money?
This writer’s question from an email is simple: they asked that if they write and publish 50 blog posts and get $1 a day from that, then logically this means that by writing 5,000 of them in a short time…
