#CreditWriters: Because if writers don’t credit each other, who will? And why not make it easy for your fellow writers to credit you? Read More
Use Twitter Analytics to Boost Your Social Media Marketing
‘You’re looking at a whole page of intelligence about your social media marketing on Twitter and how your presence on this vast medium is playing out.’ Read More
Facing Up to the Importance of Your Author Photo
Raise your hand if a family member took your ‘professional’ headshot. Every two years, you need a professionally made career headshot. A real one. Read More
Facing Up to the Importance of Your Author Photo
It’s ironic how many fine independent writers are fully onboard with professional-class editing, design, and production, and yet when it comes to their author photos, you’re likely to be looking at a gallery of amateurism. Read More
The Importance of a Web site in Self-Publishing
For authors today, no “piece of digital real estate” is more important than the author Website: It gets your message to a busy visitor fast. Read More
Reedsy On A Roll: The UK Startup Expands To Serve Publishers
‘Reedsy for Publishers’ is on the way, as the two-year-old company rolls out its Reedsy Book Editor. Collaborative functionality is in testing stages now. Read More
Why That Ebook May Cost More Than The Hardcover
It’s Not Over ‘Til The Big Dog Barks Indie publishing is still growing and it seems that established publishing is at a standstill. Mike Shatzkin’s column of August 5 may be the one in which we someday remember hearing a new sermon, the beginning of the endgame. But Shatzkin is not delivering a benediction yet: This… Read More
In And Around London Book Fair: Authors, IndieReCon And ALLi’s Third Anniversary
And Spectacular Weather As if heeding a request from London Book Fair (LBF) director Jacks Thomas, the sun flooded Olympia London with bright springtime light all week. We weary stand-and-stairs brats now head back to planes, trains, and waiting families. Smaller by design — Olympia is a markedly more compressed space than Earls Court — the transfer went remarkably… Read More
Getting Past The ‘Bookstore Barrier': Freethy And Ingram Go Into Print
‘Without Giving Up Digital Rights To One Of The Big Five’ The best-of-the-bestselling Amazon Kindle Million Club independent authors today is announcing a partnership with one of the recognized giants in book distribution: Ingram is providing a full-service sales and publishing team that will also be instrumental in selling, printing and distributing the books worldwide as… Read More