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...
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...
