by Kevin Tumlinson | Nov 23, 2016 | Announcements
This year in the US our Thanksgiving holiday falls on Thursday, November 24. In observance of this national holiday, the Draft2Digital offices will close at 5pm Central on November 23 and reopen again at 8am CST on Monday, November 28. The digital stores we work with...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Nov 3, 2016 | Author How-To & Mindset
Every word you write is meant for someone. All writing has a target audience. And the more specific your idea of that someone, the more impact your writing can have. Identifying and defining your ideal reader, then, is an exercise in honing and improving your craft....
by Kevin Tumlinson | Oct 26, 2016 | Author How-To & Mindset
If you’ve been in self-publishing for more than a few minutes, it’s likely you’ve heard the term “author platform.” In simplest terms, an author platform is your ability to sell books because of who you are and who you are connected to. This week, we’re taking a look...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Oct 5, 2016 | Author How-To & Mindset
What’s in a name? It’s a more complicated question than you might think, because the name of your book can indicate everything from tone to genre to setting and more. Choosing the perfect book titles for your works is about more than finding something that sounds...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Sep 14, 2016 | Author How-To & Mindset
Book covers are the first bit of customer-facing marketing that your reader will ever see. They’re a shortcut—telling the reader in shorthand that they’ll like this book, that it’s in the genre they love to read, and that the person who wrote it is someone they can...
