by Joshua Unruh | May 26, 2015 | Author How-To & Mindset
A title. Every book has one. It’s often the first thing that could grab a potential reader. But how do you know when you’ve found a good one? Should it be clever? Informative? Provocative? All of the above? And how should a self-published author best leverage the...
by Joshua Unruh | May 19, 2015 | Author How-To & Mindset
Writers write for a million different reasons, and rarely just one. For pleasure. To memorialize. To exorcise personal demons. For posterity. Because there’s a story to tell. But everyone reading this post almost certainly has one reason in common: we write to sell....
by Joshua Unruh | May 12, 2015 | Author How-To & Mindset
There is an oft-repeated comparison between self-publishing and staking a wild gamble on casino games like slot machines or roulette. The thinking goes that once you publish, you’ve paid your money and all you can do is trust your luck. This isn’t new thinking. It’s...
by Joshua Unruh | May 5, 2015 | Author How-To & Mindset
Formatting. Would I be too dramatic in declaring it the bane of the self-published author’s existence? It is literally the first thing you have to do if you want to publish your book. And if the book is formatted poorly, it could kill any interest before a single word...