Category: Self-Publishing

Don’t Just Strike, Do Something to Stop SOPA!

SOPA and PIPA represent two bills in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate respectively. SOPA is short for the “Stop Online Piracy Act,” and PIPA is an acronym for the “Protect IP Act.” (“IP” stands for “intellectual property.”) These bills are efforts to stop copyright infringement committed by foreign web [...]

Wednesday January 18th, 2012 in Information Products, Self-Publishing, The Business of Writing | No Comments »

The Value of Good Editing

With November over and so many writers patting themselves on the back for having completed the challenge of Write Nonfiction in November (or National Novel Writing Month), I’m sorry to say it’s not time to rest on your laurels. No…it’s time to get editing or get a good editor…or both. There’s value in good editing. [...]

Friday December 2nd, 2011 in Editing, Self-Publishing, Working With Editors | 2 Comments »

10 Tips for Prepping Your Manuscript: A Self-Publishers’ Checklist

If you want to self-publish your book, completing the manuscript constitutes only the first step. Then you need to take that (hopefully) professionally edited piece of work and have it turned into a book. That means you must have it designed (hopefully) by a professional designer and then printed. I say ”hopefully” because all too [...]

Thursday November 17th, 2011 in Book Design, Self-Publishing | No Comments »

Nine Essentials for Self-Publishing Success

Despite all the great advice offered by WNFIN’s expert bloggers, it’s possible that your book proposal may not land you a traditional publishing contact. Or maybe you have no interest at all in traditional publishing; you may want to be an indie publisher—to self-publish your work. Great! At this point in the WNFIN challenge, we [...]

Thursday November 17th, 2011 in Self-Publishing | No Comments »

Three Ways to Write a Short Book in Under 30 Days

I love producing short books fast, and I often teach workshops on this topic. Writers get very excited about becoming a published author in under a month. What better time to try writing and publishing a short book fast than during Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN), when you are challenged to start and finish a work of nonfiction [...]

Tuesday November 8th, 2011 in How to Write a Book Fast, Self-Publishing, Writing Coaching, Writing Tips | No Comments »

Amazon Takes on the New York Publishing Houses

I read something interesting today in the New York Times. It seems Amazon.com has decided to enter the publishing game. Not only does the company now provide aspiring authors with the ability to self-publish POD and e-books–and to read them not only on a Kindle e-book reader but also on the new Kindle Fire–but has [...]

Monday October 17th, 2011 in Print-on-Demand Publishing, publishing, Publishing Industry, Self-Publishing, Traditional Publishing | 1 Comment »

Should You Build Platform Before or After You Write a Book?

I’m often approached by clients who are ready to move forward with their books or book proposals, but they have not built author platform, a built-in readership for their books. In most cases, they don’t want to take the time to build platform before self-publishing, nor do they want to do this prior to approaching [...]

Monday July 11th, 2011 in Author Coaching, Creating a Bestselling Book, Platform, Self-Publishing, Traditional Publishing | No Comments »

Anyone Can Write a Short Book…and Publish It…Fast!

Did you think I disappeared? Did you think I simply forgot to write a blog post on Monday and possibly today, too? Nope. I’ve been busy. (Again.) As of today, I have sent off three short books to the printer, www.360DigitalBooks.com. I have upgraded my self-publishing activities from a booklet press and will now have [...]

Wednesday June 15th, 2011 in Author Coaching, Book Design, Information Products, Print-on-Demand Publishing, Resources, Self-Publishing, Writing Coaching | 1 Comment »

Turning an E-Book into a P-Book with InDesign

I bet you wondered what happened to me when no blog post showed up n Monday. Well, I was a bit busy learning how to design a book in Adobe InDesign. I was going to try and hire a designer, but I had the program and I used to do a ton of design work [...]

Tuesday June 7th, 2011 in Blogging, Book Design, Repurposing or Recycling Material, Self-Publishing, Short Books or Booklets | 2 Comments »

Joel Friedlander Offers Tips and Reasons for Booking a Blog

On Friday when I reviewed fellow blogger and book designer Joel Friedlander’s new book, A Self-Publisher’s Companion, Expert Advice for Authors Who Want to Publish, I promised I’d publish the four questions I asked him about his experience booking a blog. (If you don’t know what that means, please refer to this post.) You see, [...]

Monday May 2nd, 2011 in Blogging, Blogging a Book, Repurposing or Recycling Material, Self-Publishing | No Comments »