by Kevin Tumlinson | Mar 3, 2022 | Author Essentials, Self Publishing Insiders Podcast
Episode Summary The first thing a reader sees when encountering your book online is the cover. But the second thing is usually the book descriptions—and it’s here that you have a chance to persuade a reader to pick up the book, and give it a try. So getting that...
by Sarah Kuiken | Feb 14, 2022 | Author Essentials, Author How-To & Mindset
Market research is an easy step to overlook, especially for newbie authors like me. After all, it feels like it might impact artistic integrity to check out what readers are buying before you publish … Right? It all depends on your approach. (Which is not to say that...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Nov 18, 2021 | Author Essentials, Self Publishing Insiders Podcast
Episode Summary When you’re known for being the go-to source of answers in the self-publishing/indie author community, you get asked lots of questions! In this episode of Self Publishing Insiders, we take a swing at answering some of the most common questions we...
by Sarah Kuiken | Oct 13, 2021 | Author Essentials, Author How-To & Mindset, Books2Read Promotions
BookBub is a discovery platform for readers and a marketing platform for writers. It’s where readers go to discover new writers, and where writers can market their books to readers of their genre. Before we dive into how to use BookBub Featured Deals for marketing...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Aug 5, 2021 | Author Essentials, Self Publishing Insiders Podcast
Episode Summary In the self-publishing world we often talk about things like marketing, editing, cover design, building a platform—and all of these are things you do AFTER writing your book. But the actual writing, the writing craft, is even more important....
by Kevin Tumlinson | Jul 22, 2021 | Author Essentials, Self Publishing Insiders Podcast
Episode Summary We work pretty hard to make Draft2Digital the easiest part of your author experience, but sometimes there are just questions we couldn’t anticipate. That’s why we’ve built the best author support team there is! In this episode of SPI, you’ll hear from...