by Kate Sullivan |
Time for some cold, hard truth: Self-published authors are still at a disadvantage in the book industry. Even though readers have discovered how awesome many self-published books are, the book publishing industry doesn’t just hand out free professional book...
by Kate Sullivan |
Reviews sell books. That much is a fact. And they’re even more important to indie authors, who don’t have the marketing muscle of a huge multi-billion-dollar corporation behind them. In order to take a chance on a new book, people require what’s called “social proof.”...
by Gregory Diehl
Imagine if it were possible to produce an independent copy of your mind. This disembodied version of you could move around freely from place to place, even across foreign countries, and communicate fluently in other languages. Imagine it could be multiplied millions...
by Kate Sullivan |
You’ve probably heard it a hundred times by now: the best way to build a career as a writer is to write a lot. You need to have a series; you need to expand to related markets; you need to blog every day—the list of recommendations seems as endless as the amount of...
by Kate Sullivan |
It’s every author’s age-old question: What is the proper word count for my book? It’s also one of those questions for which there’s no right answer. For the most part, you don’t need to worry about strict word counts for your writing. Write what it takes to tell your...
