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10 Professional Tips to Sell Your Own Books…

Here’s a great list of “to do’s” about how to sell your own books that was shared and discussed at the last (9/10/16) BAIPA (Bay Area Independent Publishers Association) meeting in Novato, CA. That is precisely what my clients (and publishing friends) want and need to know. Since you’re my friends too, let me share […]

Sunday September 18th, 2016 in articles, Blurb, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, fiction, Gordon Burgett, Lightning Source, LSI, niche publishing, Nook Press, novel writing, open publishing, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, writing | Comments Off on 10 Professional Tips to Sell Your Own Books…

Writers: how to find more people to interview…

Sometimes you’re writing an article or story and try as you may you can’t think of or find another person to interview, other than your kids or some shlunk on the street corner. So what do you do? Let’s start with an expectation that few new writers know about or think they might be able […]

Tuesday March 22nd, 2016 in article selling, article writing, articles, blog, blogging, digital publishing, e-publishing, fiction, freelance articles, Kindle, LSI, Lulu, Nook, public speaking, publishing, self-publishing, Smashwords, writing | Comments Off on Writers: how to find more people to interview…

Some thoughts about interviewing…

This is an excerpt (part of a chapter) from my coming book, Interviewing. I talk about tools and means used to interview: Interviewing is mostly you asking questions to a person or, rarely, a group, and receiving an intelligible response in return. When you record what you asked and what they replied, that is the […]

Monday November 30th, 2015 in 1 Shopping Cart, Amazon Author Central, article selling, article writing, articles, blog, blogging, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, fiction, freelance articles, humor in articles, Kindle, Kindle, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche marketing, niche publishing, novel writing, open publishing, publishing, query letters for humor writing, querying for article sales, reprint of a rewrite, reprints, rewrites, travel writing, writing | Comments Off on Some thoughts about interviewing…

Here’s how to submit changes to your book at Kindle

Here’s a comment/question that I get too often: “I published my book on Kindle but I don’t know how to make changes in it. Help”! So let me list the steps that will let you tinker or rewrite or clarify your book. Whatever you want to change, the train always takes the same simple track. […]

Wednesday November 18th, 2015 in Amazon Author Central, Amazon.com, articles, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, fiction, Kindle, Kindle, open publishing, publishing, self-publishing | Comments Off on Here’s how to submit changes to your book at Kindle

Writers: How to Write in Financial Comfort Even in Old Age!

There are ways to do what the title says—and about 1000 other ways that guarantee writing penury, most about as lucrative as begging for or selling writing pencils on the street! I’ll not foul this blog by describing how you can find cliche distress or dangling destitution—poverty you can find on your own. Or it […]

Thursday October 22nd, 2015 in Amazon Author Central, article selling, article writing, articles, digital publishing, e-publishing, empire building, fiction, freelance articles, newsletter writing, niche marketing, niche publishing, novel writing, open publishing, public speaking, publishing, speaking | Comments Off on Writers: How to Write in Financial Comfort Even in Old Age!

A visible punctuation error that gets writers unbought!

You want to get paid for your wordsmithing by some deep-pocketed, eagle-eyed editor who refuses to rewrite your mistakes, here’s something that can keep you poor and quickly rejected. Even worse, it’s easy to spot before the editor reads a word. Learn how and when to use the “en” and “em” dashes right every time. […]

Tuesday September 29th, 2015 in article selling, article writing, articles, blog, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, fiction, first draft, freelance articles, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche publishing, novel writing, proofreading, second draft, self-publishing, travel writing, writing | Comments Off on A visible punctuation error that gets writers unbought!

With a novel, why not cash in with five more wee books?

With a novel, why not cash in with five more wee spin-off books? The easiest way to get more people to buy your novels is to tell a super tale, then expand that with even better tales, inflating your reader’s enthusiasm and their caring for your characters, their loves and travails, for their dreams or […]

Sunday September 6th, 2015 in 1 Shopping Cart, articles, blog, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, fiction, iPad, K-12, K-12 administrators, Kindle, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, open publishing, principals, publishing, school superintendents, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, writing | Comments Off on With a novel, why not cash in with five more wee books?

How can I make my self-published memoir a big seller?

It’s doable but very hard. It takes a combination of good things, some not much in your control. A starting definition is required: what is a “big seller”? Almost everybody will agree that if your book has “many, many thousands of sales; royalties in six-plus figures; a book-based movie, and spin-offs of book fame like […]

Friday June 26th, 2015 in articles, blog, book title, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, English teachers, fiction, first draft, iBook, iPad, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, Nook, Nook Press, novel writing, open publishing, pre-testing, proofreading, publishing, second draft, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, writing | Comments Off on How can I make my self-published memoir a big seller?

How to calculate your 2015 monthly Amazon-based royalties

This was a gnarly problem earlier. Whether it was you alone closing your books at the end of the month or you had to calculate royalties for all of the authors in your publishing crew, it was a brainbuster to figure out where or how the Amazon outlets shared the good news. It’s better now. […]

Tuesday June 2nd, 2015 in e-publishing, fiction, Kindle, niche publishing, open publishing, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, webmarketing, writing | Comments Off on How to calculate your 2015 monthly Amazon-based royalties

4 proven ways to sell 75%+ of your freelance writing

MAGAZINES and NEWSPAPERS   1. Here is the two-item formula for selling nonfiction copy to magazines and newspapers: (a) You sell more than 75% of your freelance writing by writing only when you have better than a 50% chance of a sale, and (b) You have better than a 50% chance of a sale by […]

Friday February 20th, 2015 in article selling, article writing, articles, blog, cover notes, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, empire building, fiction, freelance articles, iBook, iPad, Kindle, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche marketing, niche publishing, Nook, novel writing, open publishing, pre-testing, proofreading, publishing, query letters for humor writing, querying for article sales, reprint of a rewrite, reprints, rewrites, self-publishing, seminar income, simultaneous submissions, small publishers, Smashwords, webmarketing, writing | Comments Off on 4 proven ways to sell 75%+ of your freelance writing