by Jane Sandwood | May 14, 2018 | Author How-To & Mindset, Guest Post
They say that wine improves with age—and guess what? So does your writing. For many different reasons, people tend to associate getting older with losing certain abilities. But for writers, there is no perfect time to start writing or to stop. Rather, every age...
by David Gaughran | May 7, 2018 | Author How-To & Mindset, Guest Post
This article about platform building is an adapted excerpt from the third edition of Let’s Get Digital: How To Self-Publish, And Why You Should by David Gaughran which is available now from all retailers. I have a considerable platform and it drives fewer sales than...
by Kevin Tumlinson | May 1, 2018 | Author How-To & Mindset, Features & Walk-Thrus, Knowledge Base
I think the great philosopher, Rodney “Rod” Tidwell, best summed up both the existential question and the nature of an author’s reality when he said, “Show me the money.” Sure, Jerry Maguire gets all the credit, but we all know Rod had life pegged. The thing that...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Apr 2, 2018 | Author How-To & Mindset
The writing life can feel isolated, but it doesn’t have to be. Let’s talk about writing communities! There’s a myth about writers—that we’re all lonely, tortured souls who toil in isolation and obscurity. The popular conception of being an author is that...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Mar 27, 2018 | Author How-To & Mindset
There are a few mainstay bits of marketing wisdom that every author gets from day one. Email mailing lists are usually the number one prescribed marketing tip. A close number two, though, is “get as many reviews as you can.” There may be some debate as to whether...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Feb 28, 2018 | Author How-To & Mindset, Knowledge Base
The Worst and Best Ways to Launch Your Book – Part 2 In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the top five worst ways to handle your book launch. We just can’t leave this on a negative note, though. It would be wrong. So, in this post we’re diving into one possible...