Category Tools and tips
Thoughts on #InfoDumps anyone?
First, what is an infodump? If you aren’t familiar with the term, that probably means you aren’t an author! There are a number of structural issues within stories that it’s advisable for authors to avoid, and infodumps are one. Infodumping is when an author gives lots of information in too short a space of time, […]
Did you know Amazon #KDP charges you a fee for delivering your #ebook, based on its file size?
You’d think delivering a digital file wouldn’t cost anything, wouldn’t you? It’s just a straightforward download, over the World Wide Web. And yet, provided you are ‘earning’ 70% royalties from Amazon, they charge YOU, the author, a delivery fee every time a customer buys and downloads your book. So you’re really earning 70% minus the […]
Experimenting with #AI tools? Try this really useful voice note app
Like me, you may be a bit overwhelmed by the explosion in AI-powered tools. Even if you see them as potentially useful, the speed with which they are proliferating is, for most of us, breathtaking and daunting. I’ve been trying to get it together with Midjourney , the best AI image creator so far. I […]
Maximizing Book Sales with Effective Design: A Guide for #Writers
Today I have a guest post for you, bringing you a new (to me) design platform for creating all those essential graphics that an author needs. Take it away, Edit.org In today’s competitive market, it is vital to create visually appealing materials to grab the attention of potential readers and increase sales online and offline. […]
Want to edit a large PDF for free? Here’s how…
Last year, I updated the cover of my first book to match subsequent volumes. It went from this….to this: Matchy, matchy… I happily uploaded my new cover to Amazon KDP print and ordered a handful of author copies. When they arrived, I realised that I also needed to update the cover designer attribution on my […]
4 Ways #Writers Can Identify and Connect With Their Online Audience #Blogging
On the theme of helping newer writers enter the busy and often confusing world of authorship, this week I have a guest post for you about blogging. In my personal experience, blogging is one of the best ways to connect with other authors and potential readers. After hearing that keeping a blog was such an […]
3 ways to make your book more attractive to readers #marketing
This post is for the writer who has made the decision to try self-publishing their novel, but hasn’t yet taken the plunge. Many people are put off at this stage by the figures – I looked it up and discovered the startling figure of 48.5 million books for sale on Amazon. So how on earth […]
7 steps to formatting your paperback book #IndieAuthor #KDP
In the run up to releasing my most recent book, THE PRINCE’S HEIR, I set out to format my first paperback for a long time, and decided to document the stages so I will have a post to refer to next time, and not have to figure it out all over again! Hopefully this will […]
#Authors, what’s in your endmatter? #Apple #Kobo
If you’ve read my last post, you’ll be aware I recently fell foul of my own decision to publish (via the aggregator, Draft2Digital) my initial novels to Apple as a separate entity, rather than using the same master file for all platforms. This was a result of Apple’s strict policy of no links in your […]
How far ahead do you think? #EstatePlanning for #Authors
I am no expert on this subject, but I’ve saved a few notes about it with a ‘get to this someday’ tag. It’s not something we like to think about – dying – but for the sake of our family and friends, we really should bite the bullet, so to speak. Please be assured nothing […]
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