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2024 AI Training Survey Results

by Kris Austin | September 17, 2024 | Industry Insight | 0 Comments

D2D’s survey results and conclusions are contained within. Significant AI reforms are needed to earn publishing community trust.

How to Become a Successful Author: The Eight Levels of Author Success

by NickThacker | August 21, 2024 | Author How-To & Mindset | 0 Comments

Each writer’s journey is unique, a path punctuated with challenges, discoveries, and revelations. However, like any adventure, there are distinct milestones that most authors strive to achieve on their road to becoming successful authors. This framework isn't a...

How to Self-Publish a Book Without Overhead

by Courtney Damji | August 19, 2024 | Author Essentials, Author How-To & Mindset | 0 Comments

The rise of self-publishing platforms has made it easier than ever before for people to write a book. Writers can bypass traditional gatekeepers and bring their stories directly to readers. You might be thinking of the costs associated with publishing—editing, design,...

How Much Does It Cost to Self-Publish a Book?

by Courtney Damji | July 31, 2024 | Author How-To & Mindset | 0 Comments

Self-publishing should never break the bank. While it's possible to invest thousands of dollars to publish a book—or get scammed into spending thousands more by fraudulent vanity presses—it’s equally feasible to produce high-quality work on a shoestring budget....

Authors and Cover Artists, Meet BookCovers.com!

by Lexi Greene | June 25, 2024 | Announcements | 0 Comments

Draft2Digital to Rebrand and Relaunch SelfPubBookCovers.com as BookCovers.com, making it the Premier Marketplace for Premade Book Covers Draft2Digital announced today that it will relaunch and rebrand SelfPubBookCovers.com (SPBC) as BookCovers.com, aiming to establish...

How Draft2Digital Authors Can Showcase Their Books to the Foreign Language Rights Market

by Mark Leslie Lefebvre | June 12, 2024 | Announcements | 0 Comments

Indie authors have many ways of getting their books in the hands of the right readers of their English language books, but when it comes to finding success in the foreign language global market, their options usually involve: Investing in translators for their books...

The 2024 Summer/Winter Sale at Smashwords!

by Lexi Greene | June 11, 2024 | Announcements | 0 Comments

The Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale is right around the corner again! Whether you’re enjoying the Northern Hemisphere heat or you’re bundling up in the Southern Hemisphere, our annual sale is a great time to promote your books! You can sign your books up for July's sale...

Say Hello to Fable!

by Jim Azevedo | April 9, 2024 | Announcements | 0 Comments

Expanded Retail Distribution…With an Awesome Twist! Welcome to Fable! At Draft2Digital, it’s our mission to provide you with the very best tools to help you grow your publishing business. One of the best ways to help you grow your publishing business is to help you...

Grow Your Story From Scratch at the Storygarden Summit

by Mark Leslie Lefebvre | March 13, 2024 | Conference | 0 Comments

Our passion at Draft2Digital is helping authors by offering free tools and services to make it easy to get your book in the right format and distributed to our growing list of retail and library partners. But we recognize that you might also need help getting that...

Crafting an Irresistible Inciting Incident

by Polly Watt | March 6, 2024 | Guest Post | 0 Comments

A book may begin on page one, but the real story starts when a key moment sets the plot in motion. This week, Polly Watt from Fictionary shares how to craft an inciting incident that will hook your readers. What is an Inciting Incident? At its most basic, an inciting...

Best Practices of Successful Indie Authors // EP193

by Lexi Greene | Sep 19, 2024 | Self Publishing Insiders Podcast

Episode Summary What separates the authors searching for their success and the authors who've found it? Author coach Keith Wheeler joins us to talk about best practices for indie authors. [simplecast-embed...

2024 AI Training Survey Results

by Kris Austin | Sep 17, 2024 | Industry Insight

D2D’s survey results and conclusions are contained within. Significant AI reforms are needed to earn publishing community trust.

How to Structure a Book Series // EP192

by Lexi Greene | Sep 12, 2024 | Self Publishing Insiders Podcast

Episode Summary Kristina Stanley of Fictionary joins us to talk about hoe to structure a book series. We go deep on how to plan your story across multiple books to ensure each installment builds anticipation for the next. [simplecast-embed...

Trials, Tribulations… and Success! // EP191

by Lexi Greene | Sep 5, 2024 | Self Publishing Insiders Podcast

Episode Summary Internationally bestselling author Elicia Hyder, with nearly a million books sold, has been on the wild ride of curve balls, perseverance, and fortitude, but she made it through and she's here to share the tale with us. [simplecast-embed...

Self Publishing Roadmap for Success // EP190

by Lexi Greene | Aug 29, 2024 | Self Publishing Insiders Podcast

Episode Summary If you've ever asked yourself, "How do successful indie authors do it?" -- Dale Roberts from Self Publishing with Dale is here to show you the publishing roadmap for success. [simplecast-embed...

Migration Missive #9

by Kris Austin | Aug 22, 2024 | Migration

To keep up with these Migration Missive updates, please visit our main Migration Updates page. Again, we spent the last two weeks going through the automatic migrations. We migrated nearly 23,000 accounts and over 79,000 titles in that time. Automatic migrations have...