Deadlines Boost Your Skills Now
My co-writer and I were talking tonight about how we work better under pressure. When we entered a short story contest, we both cranked it out in a few days and then we ended up expanding and polishing those pieces into a much larger work. Under that same theory,...
I Gained 10x More Readers Standing On The Shoulders of Giants
I’m active in a few writer groups on Facebook. The other day a video by an author who had hit the NYT and USA Today bestseller list 33 times was making the rounds. This video was of her presentation entitled “Capturing the Golden Goose: How to Sell a Bazillion...
Make It Rain: How to Sell a Bazillion Books According to Bestselling Author H.M. Ward
H.M. Ward is an unquestionably successful indie author. Her extensive backlist of YA and New Adult romance novels have sold 13 million books worldwide and she’s hit the NYT and USA Today bestseller list a combined 33 times. She shares her thoughts on how to...
Making Money On Your Writing – Following Heinlein’s Rules
I had never heard of Heinlein’s Rules until I started reading Dean Wesley Smith’s blog. The five rules are pretty straight forward and I paraphrase them here: Write. Finish what you start. Don’t rewrite except to editorial order. Market your...
Using Data Science To Pick Your Reading List
Who are your favorite authors? What are your favorite books? If you have a voracious reading appetite and have finished up the stack on your desk, or the purchases on your Kindle, what do you do next? Amazon has figured you out. They serve you up the “also...
DIY Package Templates from Creative Indie Saved My Sanity
It’s not going to be a surprise when I say, I like to write. But these days, being a writer also means that you need to tackle a host of other areas, such as marketing your books. I’m learning the ropes of book marketing, but mostly just concentrating on...
Using Amazon to Market Your Books For You – Six Figure Author by Chris Fox
That’s my alternative title to Chris Fox’s Six Figure Author: Using Data to Sell Books: Write Faster, Write Smarter: Premise: this book is largely about using Amazon’s algorithms because iBooks isn’t doing anything like this (yet). What I...
Using Websites To Grow Your Business with Linda Jones
Today, some technical tips for you and your writing business courtesy of Linda Jones, Founder + CEO of Taykoff. ————————————- As a writer, we know websites are vital to our business. They are an...