Writing & Publishing: Building Audience With Avid Readers (This write-up is different from others I've done. Mainly because researching these are all tied together. There are many good articles describing how to utilize these social media to build audience. And no real need to paraphrase them here. So I've just put a list of links I've found after these short notes so you … [Read more...]
Writing Your Books: Your Author Platform Is Your Business
Writing Your Books: Your Author Platform Is Your Business refs: 4 Vices You Must Lose to Build Your Author Platform (https://livesensical.com/4-vices-lose-build-author-platform/) Writing-Publishing Survival Guide – A Brain Dump of Systems (https://livesensical.com/writing-publishing-survival-guide-brain-dump-systems/) Is the Content Inc. Model a Good Fit for … [Read more...]
Self-Publishing: Instafreebie Errata – Tips, Tricks, Strategies
Self-Publishing: Instafreebie Errata - Tips, Tricks, Strategies These notes from getting active on Instafreebie (and getting over 130 opt-ins in less than two weeks, starting with knowing nothing about this stuff.) - Read and follow directions. Every. Single. Time. Fill out everything the way you want to represent yourself or your books. This is a well thought-out service. … [Read more...]
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 13 Results
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 13 Results Subscribers still flowing in due to joining Instafreebie giveaways. Some tweaking, but proved its an essential tool. More interesting is how it's begun driving traffic to book outlets. Metrics Published words – Fiction: – free – 0 – paid – 6980 (anthology: 26381, total: 33361) Anthology is also out in print. Proof in … [Read more...]
Online Business: Amazon Squashes Public Domain eBooks (Again.)
You'd think Amazon would be more respectful of Public Domain (PD) books, since this is what they used to start their KDP operation. They had to have a lot of books people could put onto their brand-new Kindle ereaders, so they loaded up with a lot of (slightly) edited versions of free public domain books. (Kinda like when they had their own staff write reviews in order to get … [Read more...]
Online Business: Should You #DeleteFacebook?
Online Business: Should You #DeleteFacebook? It's tough to turn the other cheek on a company who's been stealing your personal information and giving it out to other companies. All just to sell you their stuff - and have the same ad follow you around through all the sites you visit. And probably a little illegal of them, as well. But we'll have to let the powers that be … [Read more...]
Writing Your Book: Simplicity Is the Key – Earl Nightingale
Writing Your Book: Simplicity Is the Key - Earl Nightingale Another essay by Earl Nightingale from the How to Completely Change Your Life Series I used to know a man who was one of the principals of a large and very successful advertising agency, who had a hard and fast rule against clichés. A cliché, as you know, is a trite phrase which has lost its meaning through constant … [Read more...]
Self-Publishing: The Real Leverage of Book Giveaways – Instafreebie
Self-Publishing: The Real Leverage of Book Giveaways - Instafreebie If you've been following Nick Stephenson (or bought his course) you'll know that he got his start by networking with other authors on giveaways and box sets. Networking - remember that. Networking is leverage. Leverage means more subscribers, more sales, more income. Instafreebie is a simple way to do … [Read more...]
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 06 Results
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge - Week 06 Results Metrics: Written words – Fiction: (5 out of 7 days) Writing: As published below - (5 days out of 7) Published words (free) – Fiction: 33984 Non-Fiction: 5579 Published words (paid) – 43,948 new non-fiction book. (Get your copy here.) Subscribers – Aweber: 3, Mailerlite: 2 new/52 imported, MailChimp: 0, … [Read more...]
