Posts Tagged With: Questions about Self-Publishing
Pinterest 101 – Don’t Let Pinterest Make a Pinhead Out of You!
Pinterest . . . is it ‘worth’ learning one MORE social media tool for your networking and marketing goals? Does Pinterest ‘blend well’ with the networking tools you already use? Does Pinterest have MULTIPLE uses – or is it a single use tool for reaching out to your friends and fans? These are the questions … Continue reading
The IndieAuthor’s Starter Kit by Emily Hill
Beginning the journey of an IndieAuthor and figuring out what you need-to-know, when, is like facing a tsunami head-on and climbing a mountaintop blindfolded (to mangle metaphors!) That is, (a) the amount of information is overwhelming (tsunami), and (b) you don’t know what you don’t know until you’ve reached the top of the mountain and … Continue reading
Author Beware!! The Sweetened kdp Amazon Global Fund
Jeff Bezos (Amazon innovator) has Sweetened, for the second time in recent weeks, the pot of money available to authors who sign an exclusive agreement to sell their ebooks ONLY through his eCommerce store front. I’m kind of a cause-and-effect gal, so let me entertain you with the causality, and effect, of his move to … Continue reading
Selling Your Books From the Back of a Car?
As most of you know, I attended the City of Edmonds ‘Write on the Sound’ conference this past weekend. I hugged, hung out, gossiped, and giggled. I can’t think of any annual event I enjoy more than ‘Write on the Sound’ (WOTS). Carla Neggers was the keynote speaker for this year’s session – strike that! … Continue reading
Gifts, GiveAways, and Games and How They Sell Books
It seems that I am seeing more and more blog posts about ‘engaging’ one’s readers and TweetMates. Make true friendships. ‘Encouraging customer loyalty’ is what authors should be engaged in as they construct their platform veteran book marketers advise. “Be pithy!” “Show a little of your personal side!” ”Keep your readers entertained, have fun, and … Continue reading
How A Little $3 eBook Made Thousands of Dollars ~ Kindle Success Story
Some authors call it ‘The Plan’, some call it ‘The Formula’. Every Best Selling author – traditional or kindle – can tell you exactly what it took to catapult their books into the highest rankings of a particular sales platform. I call my method, ‘The Recipe’ – it seems to fit nicely into the ‘Smart … Continue reading
Fully 50% of the Writers Who ePub Walk Away Without Marketing Their Book!
It’s time to update the self-publishing guide that A.V. Harrison Publishing (AVH) offers to writers and authors. I am mulling over all of the elements that go into a major revision of a published work. For instance, the title, the structure, what content to take out because it’s no longer relevant – and what to … Continue reading
Gosh! It should have been Literary Agents, and Not the Marines, Guarding the Gates When Saigon Fell!
I first posted this blog entry on 04 May 2011 over on my Brand X website. I’m moving it over to my Kathi Humphries Design & New Media website because it remains timely. This week I noticed a snark comment in my Twitter feed from Janet Reid, New York literary agent. One can only post … Continue reading
Questions from Writers and Self-Publishing Clients ~ 3rd Installment
The following is a response I gave this week to an author who wanted to ‘fold’ when the publisher for his first novel would not accept simultaneous publishing for his second novel – the first edition of a serial: Dear UK Author, Thank you for getting back in touch with me. I actually have read … Continue reading
