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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!

Where might your bio and sales info do you the most good?

If you are digitally displaying your achievements and the products/skills that you have for sale, where might that be shown to your best advantage? Even if it’s only done to delight your kids, prove your prowess to your spouse, or put some strut in your aging parents’ prance, where might they most likely (and logically) […]

Sunday September 13th, 2015 in Amazon Author Central, articles, blog, blogging, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, introductions, keynoting, magazine articles, public speaking, publishing, self-publishing, seminar promotion, URL | Comments Off on Where might your bio and sales info do you the most good?

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?

The most important / most profitable reason to self-publish

I enjoy and learn a lot from Bob Bly’s frequent missives. (See www.bly.com). We sort of walk and work the same side of the street regarding professional writing and publishing, and we both agree on the importance of strategizing first, then following up with processes that work. So the other day when Bob offered five […]

Tuesday June 30th, 2015 in articles, Blurb, Bob Bly, book title, digital publishing, e-publishing, empire, empire building, iBook, iPad, keynoting, Kindle, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, niche marketing, niche publishing, Nook, Nook Press, open publishing, pre-testing, product development, public speaking, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, speaking, webmarketing, Word Press, writing | Comments Off on The most important / most profitable reason to self-publish

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

Also use Nook Press to publish your own book–free!

I’ve been selling my e-books through Nook Press for four years and it’s a good way to get your book posted for sale at Barnes and Noble, which runs it. (Its platform was earlier known as Pubit!) It’s probably the easiest free ebook press site to use. (The others most used are Kindle and Smashwords.) […]

Thursday May 21st, 2015 in blog, Blurb, digital publishing, e-publishing, iBook, Kindle, Kindle, Lightning Source, LSI, Lulu, niche publishing, Nook, Nook Press, novel writing, open publishing, publishing, self-publishing, small publishers, Smashwords, webmarketing, writing | Comments Off on Also use Nook Press to publish your own book–free!

Can you use a pseudonym for publishable articles?

Sure, I suppose in print you could call yourself Superperson or Cicero or anybody you want to. And if you own the publication, it might be fine. In fact, there are times when I would indeed use a pseudonym. Like if I was a deacon writing porno, rest assured I’d change my name. Or if a […]

Sunday May 10th, 2015 in article selling, article writing, articles, blog, blogging, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, freelance articles, humor in articles, magazine articles, publishing, query letters for humor writing, querying for article sales, speaking, travel writing, writing | Comments Off on Can you use a pseudonym for publishable articles?

What do you do if a promised article interviewee finks out?

If you are writing a one-interview piece, a sort of bio plus, and the fink is the purpose of the article, apologize to the editor as soon as possible. You needn’t make excuses for the person but do try to reschedule it right away… Since queries very often suggest interviewing three people to get differing […]

Tuesday April 28th, 2015 in article selling, article writing, articles, blog, blogging, editing, freelance articles, proofreading, publishing, querying for article sales, writing | Comments Off on What do you do if a promised article interviewee finks out?

Why was your article query rejected again?

Who writes articles in 2015? At least 1,486,000 writers had a journal article published in 2010. Some were written by two or three authors. And that’s just journals. And that was five years ago. 2,000,000 blog posts will be written today. Today. Another 2,000,000 tomorrow, and so on… The difference is that articles must be […]

Wednesday April 22nd, 2015 in article selling, article writing, articles, blog, blogging, digital publishing, e-publishing, editing, freelance articles, magazine articles, newsletter writing, niche publishing, publishing, query letters for humor writing, querying for article sales, reprints, self-publishing, simultaneous submissions, webmarketing, Word Press, writing | Comments Off on Why was your article query rejected again?