by Tom Corson-Knowles | Dec 8, 2016 | Author How-To & Mindset, Guest Post
by special guest contributor Tom Corson-Knowles Distribution is everything in the publishing business. If you want more sales, you need more than just distribution—you need better placement. In this week’s post, guest poster Tom Corson-Knowles—international...
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...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Nov 12, 2015 | Features & Walk-Thrus, Knowledge Base
One tool we offer that we want our authors to consider is our New Release Notifications tool. Building a mailing list is one of the most important things a self-published author can do to turn her successes into a real career. Discovery is the biggest challenge for...
by Steed Brown | Jul 28, 2015 | Author How-To & Mindset
Although I draw from expertise throughout our company, you’ve mainly heard directly from me on this blog so far. Today, though, you have the good fortune of hearing the thoughts of Steed Brown. He’s a smart guy with a lot of interesting thoughts, and he has kind of a...