Indie Thoughts: How To Sell Loads of Books

From Russell Blake. This does not represent the only way to do things, but it’s my way, and is the synthesis of everything I’ve learned over the last 23 months of self-publishing: 1) Pick one genre that’s popular and with which you are extremely familiar, and then write in that genre. Stick to it. Don’t

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Indie Thoughts: 10 Things I Wish I’d Been Told

From Russell Blake. I get a lot of emails from authors who are just starting out, or who are on the road but frustrated at the level of success they’ve seen thus far. I wish I had more time to correspond with everyone, but the truth is I’m usually slammed with writing/publishing related tasks, and

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Indie Thoughts: Russell Blake’s Indie Author Myths

This is from Russell Blake, a pseudonym for Craig Osso, a 52-year-old retired home developer who has sold close to 450,000 copies of the 25 books he published in the last 30 months. The man has made over a million bucks at this. 1) Books Sell Themselves. No, sweetie, they don’t, at all, and never did. That’s why

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