Do you know what’s awesome about Your First 1,000 Copies by Tim Grahl? He bases his advice on tests. Tests he’s performed with other authors and tests he’s performed with his own book. For example, what’s more effective: advertising and posting our on places like Facebook and Twitter or a mailing list? Do authors really need
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From Heather Justesen, who writes clean romance. Two years ago I was working full-time for peanuts (seriously, it didn’t even cover the mortgage–and we didn’t live in a palace.) I quit to write full-time before I went completely insane. By December 2012 I had replaced my c-store income. By April 2013 I earned enough to
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Some promo tips from mega-seller Marie Force. I just changed the cover of a book (Maid for Love, book 1 in my McCarthys of Gansett Island Series) that’s been on sale for three years and free for two as a loss leader for a series that has 11.5 books (as of today–release day for book
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David Gaughran puts it all into perspective. Since the huge shift to online purchasing and e-books, a common meme is that there is some kind of “discoverability” problem in publishing. The funny thing is readers don’t seem to have any problem finding books they love. Any readers I talk to have a time problem –
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About this time last year I got the last of my rights back to the Dark God properties. I thought it would take twenty or thirty hours to figure out the whole indie publishing thing. And then the awesome John Brown story machine would kick in gear. Reality promptly woke me up and slapped me
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