You’ve spent hundreds of hours on your book, polishing the words to within an inch of their lives and arranging for a top quality, genre-rocking cover but how do you make sure that your purple prose is presented professionally? More to the point, how do you go...
An email list chock-full of eager readers is your most valuable marketing asset. It takes effort to build a list like this, but this effort is repaid every time you launch a new book or run a promotion on your existing back catalogue. If you hang around the author...
Gathered together below are some of the most useful direct links for indie authors – comment below to let me know of any you think I should add. Amazon Links Formatting Guide Make sure that your ebook conforms to Amazon’s requirements and best practices....
There are, essentially, three ways to have a print book formatted – pay someone else to do it, learn how to manually format it yourself or use one of the template-based software services. The three front runners are Vellum, Reedsy Book Editor and Draft2Digital....
Don’t wait until your latest novel goes up in a puff of dust to set up a backup strategy. Here’s a selection depending on how you write your drafts. Last Line of Defence To be completely safe, you need at least two backup methods. The belt and braces...
In this video, I walk through the process of creating a Bookfunnel group promotion. I cover: Setting up your giveaway Creating a Bundle Creating a group promo How to set up tracking links How to import author details into MailerLite to help organise the promo How to...
Mark Coker, the CEO and founder of Smashwords recently published the sixth annual Smashwords survey. In the survey he analyses the data gathered by his aggregation network which distributes books primarily to retailers other than Amazon, something that indie authors...
Readers are unlikely to give you their email addresses unless you give something to them – something that has a value. The opportunity to receive your newsletter every now and again does not qualify. Indeed, given that you are probably entirely unknown to your...
So, you convince Amazon to set the price of your first book as free by matching it with other sites. You check via the KDP dashboard, hopping to the US and UK sites and yes, it’s showing as free. You email your subscribers to give them the great news. Within...
Having an active blog is a great way to keep engaged with readers and potential readers, but it can be a huge pain to have to work out what you’re going to post about. So, I’ve analysed a range of the most active author blogs and come up with a list of the...
