by Amanda Clay Are you exclusive or wide? It’s a question asked in every indie author circle. Exclusive—meaning you publish your ebooks exclusively through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing; or Wide—your book is available on all digital platforms such as Kobo, Smashwords, and Barnes & Noble, and in libraries. It’s a distinction that’s highly debated, often
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The Business of Self-publishing with Amanda Clay
by Amanda Clay What’s this self-publishing nonsense all about, anyway? Aww, that big mahogany desk in New York. Martini lunches with your editor. Maybe it’s sipping cafe au laits in a Paris bistro or the suffering artist, burning the midnight oil in a boho loft. Whatever the image, when you first set pen to paper,
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How and why to get book reviews
Carla King interview with Christopher Locke, Membership Liaison, IBPA Subjects covered The main subject of this episode is book reviews. IBPA prefers the term “author-publisher” because term “self-published” makes it sound as though au author do it all themselves; but, if they’re doing it right, they’re hiring people to help with the process. Trade reviews
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Motivation All Day Every Day
by Laurie McLean We began this Motivation Monday series of blog posts in early March to help writers of all levels and experience to weather the storm that was the Covid-19 pandemic and quarantine. We wanted to keep your spirits up. We wanted to share wisdom from other writers and people in publishing. We wanted
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Publishing in a Pandemic: Moving Forward with Both Traditionally- and Self-Published Books
by Aya de Leon When the shelter-in-place order hit Northern California, I was working on several different books. Two are with a commercial publisher and due out in December 2020 and fall 2021. Another was just about ready for my agent to shop. The other projects range from idea to outline to partial drafts to
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Digital platform a major concern for emerging writers-PR Expert Answers Questions
By Claire McKinney The omnipresent questions at the San Francisco Writers Conference (SFWC) were about digital marketing, social media for writers, and platform building. Over the weekend I delivered a couple of presentations and met with at least twenty people individually to discuss various public relations questions and options. Some people were already building their audiences;
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