Every writer needs a website. And they need that website long before their book is released and they want an Internet location from which to promote and sell it. They need a website prior to ever approaching an agent or publisher or releasing a self-published book. It’s the place where you create your brand and where you promote yourself as…
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How to Have a Successful Blog Without It Taking Over Your Life
I’ve always thought blogging seemed a natural activity for writers. After all, it involves writing. Blogging also allows writers to become self-publishers and to get their writing read. Plus, for aspiring and published authors it provides an easy promotional tool because it doesn’t require doing anything very different than they already do. They simply need to write. Yet, to my…
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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 many indie authors fail to…
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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 turn our attention to just…
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5 Ways To Give Your Proposal A Winning Edge
Earlier this month, here on the WNFIN blog, we discussed going through the “proposal process” when evaluating your book idea for its potential of success. This process helps you accumulate the information necessary to fill the pages of your nonfiction book proposal as well. This week, you’ve been offered an Author Questionnaire, once again assisting you in gathering the details…
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