You’ve probably heard tales of writers making tons of money and hitting the bestseller lists with indie ebooks, and you’re wondering if you could do the same. But you might have questions about the best place to publish and distribute your ebook. And you should have those questions… In this guest post, Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, raises some important…
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Lots of reasons exist to write a book and self-publish it. One of the strongest arguments revolves around the ability for authors to make more money. However, the money doesn’t always come in the form of Amazon sales. In this guest post author and Internet marketing professional Jim Kukral, founder of Author Marketing Club, explains how to leverage an indie…
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You may not realize that when you decide to self-publish you become a publishers as well as a writer. This is particularly true if you decide to produce your book alone without an author services company that offers editing, design, printing, and distribution services. True self-publishing happens when you find individual experts to do these tasks as you oversee the…
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Let’s say you don’t want to take my journalism school professor’s advice and, instead, want to write an article–or two or three–as your WNFIN challenge project even if you don’t have a paying assignment yet. Today, Zachary Petit, managing editor of Writer’s Digest magazine and author of the forthcoming A Year of Writing Prompts: 366 Story Ideas for Honing Your Craft…
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Not every nonfiction writer dreams of writing a book. Some dream of bylines in glossy magazines or in newspapers or even on popular websites. I know; that was my dream when I began my writing career. I went to college to study magazine journalism. While there, however, my professors told never to write a word unless I knew I was…
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