Monthly Archives: August 2011
Self-Publisher’s Guide To Inserting A ‘Linked’ Table of Contents
[Excerpt from 'All Smart Cookies Can Self-Publish'] Linked Table of Contents Aren’t links and linked Table of Contents great! Do you know how to insert a linked Table of Contents into your eBook format? Here we go! Go through your manuscript, and at each Chapter Start or Indexed item, highlight the first word (one distinctive … Continue reading
A.V. Harrison Publishing Answers Questions from IndiePub Clients
Originally published May 2011 In the course of being an IndiePub Coach I get a lot of questions about self-publishing, promoting one’s writing, and sales figures. This week I’d like to share the questions I’ve received over the past few weeks and the answers that I’ve given to writers considering self-publishing (not contract-publishing) their work. … Continue reading
Self-Publishing Authors Are Encouraged To Entertain Their Readers, Using eBook Technologies
Originally published 21 May 2011 I read a lot of blogs, and surf a lot of net, to stay on top of topics having to do with self-publishing. This week one blog note, written by my literary friend, Derek Haines, caught my eye, and stayed with me. One of Haines thoughtful musings this week was … Continue reading
Wonderful Carol Scott, librarian, adds ‘Jenkins’ to her Fair Haven collection
Originally published on 21 July 2011 A movie came out several years ago that features a scene in which an author boards a downtown commuter bus during peak hours and every single person on the bus is reading the author’s book. This would be a writer’s dream come true! Has it, or something similar ever … Continue reading
A. V. Harrison Offers A Manageable Marketing Plan For Your Books
Originally published on 05 May 2011 These three slides are featured in my UPDATED ‘All Smart Cookies Can Self-Publish!’ available in color on Nook. Also available on Kindle at Amazon.com. Here’s how to put these marketing tools into a time management plan: And now! How to put these elements into a one-week plan: That’s it! … Continue reading
The End Of The Publishing Wars – The Three-Year Revolution is Over?
Originally published 08 June 2011 Is it true? Could it be? I am reacting in this week’s blog entry to the headlines racing through the internet that ‘The Anti Self-Publishing Movement Is Dead’; that ‘Self-Publishing Writers are at the cutting edge of The Brave New World’. Why, I can just feel it in the air … Continue reading
Promoting You And Your Music! Dedicated To Indie Musicians, Available On Amazon.com
This book announcement was released to the wire yesterday. I’m very pleased about the composition and the design of Promoting You And Your Music! My dream is that it will help many artists starting out in the entertainment business to see the whole picture when it comes to branding their style, presenting an image, and … Continue reading
You have 9 seconds to convince a bookshopper to hit the ‘Buy Now’ button. Is your book cover helping, or hindering, your sales?
Book covers! We need to discuss book covers! No single element of your self-published book is as important as the design of your book’s cover. An on-line book buyer will spend no more than nine seconds glancing at the book cover and product information associated with your book. Nine seconds. And, as each second ticks … Continue reading
Pricing eBooks is the Hot Topic for IndiePubs
Originally posted 08 August 2011 Pricing for eBooks has been the topic of leading blogs for the past month. And, I was contacted by Lynnette Phillips, [Link: http://lynnettesbookworld.blogspot.com/ a couple of days ago to chat about ‘book pricing’. We had an interesting discussion, and I’d like to hit on the high points of what I … Continue reading
So! You Want To Be A Writer?
This blog is inspired by Alan Rinzler, Zoe Winters, David Kazzie, JA Konrath, and Dean Wesley Smith. Because everything I ever learned about being a writer – a person who makes <strong>money</strong> writing – I learned from these individuals. So, if in the next five minutes you read something that you don’t believe, they are … Continue reading
