Tag Archives: Indie publishing
#Highlands #BookFair, & changes in book lengths
I’m one of the Scribblers! If you live anywhere within range, I’d love it if you’d pop in and say ‘hi!’ Here’s some background to the Scribblers: “The Kilted Scribblers, set up by V.J. Cooper Writer, and Claire Walsh Author, who met online, only to discover they both live in the Highlands of Scotland. Kilted […]
Update to the #Scam
By far the most popular post on my blog in the last 18 months has been my sharing of the approach I recieved from PRIME SEVEN MEDIA and my subsequent investigation into their ‘offer’ of a television interview to promote my book. I say ‘book’, singular, because they hadn’t even bothered to notice that I […]
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 […]
Update on my FREE sale results #marketing
I apologise. I had meant to do this update 6 months after my Christmas sale, but life took over and the time never presented itself to sit down and do calculations. Until now. So, here it is: analysis of the 6 months post my FREE sale of book #1 in series, THE PRINCE’S MAN. You […]
Is a FREE promo still worth doing? #bookmarketing
In the past, FREE promos saw huge downloads and, although it costs plenty to advertise a free book (sometimes more than a reduced price book!), still provided a good ROI (return on investment) as a result of sales of the author’s other books, especially if the free book was #1 in a series. I’ve seen […]
7 steps to Creating a Boxset #Indiepublishing
Why create a boxset? 2 reasons spring to mind: First step For me, the first step was coming up with a title for the boxset. It hadn’t occured to me before that it would have to have a title different from the first book in the series, and that took a bit of thinking. I […]
Traditional or Indie publishing – which is right for you?
I’m in the process of giving my blog a spring clean, deleting old, out-of-date posts and generally tidying up, and I thought it would be fun to share this, my very first post! I wrote this back in 2013, prior to self-publishing my first novel. Have my opinions changed since then? Take a look, and […]
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 […]
Traditional #publishing v Indie (Independent)
I know this is an old topic, but as the world changes, so too do these type of perennial discussions. I joined (yet another) Facebook group a while ago – THE WRITER’S FORUM – and was gobsmacked to discover the level of ignorance about the publishing industry amongst new writers. I guess I’ve been at […]
Are you making the most of your Amazon Author Central account? #EditorialReviews
I’m assuming you have your Amazon Author page set up? If not, then do so right away! Your author page is where customers can find all your books in one place, and links to your blog too. They find it by clicking on your name, on your book’s sale page And this is what it […]
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