How To Save $3.4 Million With Self-Publishing I’ve written before about publishing, self-publishing and the like. For the business guys and girls here, this will come as no surprise: Don’t get a publisher. Don’t get an agent. Treat your material like a business and actually become a business. Yet still authors and creatives fail utterly…
Would-be Authors: Check Out This Trainwreck Of A Fail-Article Let’s jump right into some business advice for would-be authors. Check out this massive fail of an article published by the Guardian. In it, we have a writer – decorated Ros Barker, who says she’s going hungry as a writer but wouldn’t consider self-publishing. This…
A Twitter follower asked for help on fiction-writing success. Coming off the back of a niche site tweet about creating assets for passive income, he asked how to approach doing so with fiction. In particular, he wanted to know about writing serials, marketing books and getting people invested in the world he has created. That’s…
Whenever I take a weekend off I come back to some crazy, stupid Internet stuff. In my absence this weekend, it turns out some author has decided to trademark the word “cocky” for use in romance titles. This has caused a storm online and I know of several people who’ve received takedown notices on their…
Why I Will Probably Never Get A Real Publisher. The twenty first century has seen some pretty awesome things happen commercially. These awesome things have led to massive changes in the publishing “industry” which, if you’re a writer of any sort, you’re working in. Things like Amazon, E-books, and websites for authors are obvious…
Your Publishing Estate: Every Word Is An Asset There are two ways to approach writing as a money making machine. Firstly, you can think in terms of a job: You get paid per hour of your time, and the writing you do has to pay immediately for your time so that you can afford your…
Why Kindle Unlimited Is A Bad Deal For Authors And Publishers Many authors think they are going to make a huge amount of money when they first self-publish. A lot of them think that they’ll make even more if they sign up for Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited Program. However, Kindle Unlimited is not a good idea…