Category: News (Page 3 of 15)

Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• How to write about a place you don’t know (even if you can’t go there)
• Your marketing should make people want to take action now.
• Many articles claim that Kindles and other ereaders support PDF, or that it’s easy to convert a PDF to your ereader’s format. They’re right, but with some significant caveats.
• It’s depressingly common for friends and family to be unsupportive of writers.
• If you want your book to be the very best it can be, then you should consider hiring an editor.
• Be careful how you give away your protagonist’s secrets.
• Draft2Digital’s Universal Book Links are a very useful tool. One link for all stores, and they’re geo-targeted, so your readers will go to their local store.

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Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• Legible is a new ebook retail and streaming service. Can it deliver on its promises?
• NFTs are big news right now, but don’t think that an NFT is equivalent to a copyright registration certificate.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch has a warning and advice for authors that are exclusive to Amazon.
• Success comes from minimising risk. Not from avoiding potential risk.
• Interesting piece on the challenges of voicing audiobooks.
• Some useful guidelines from The Alliance of Independent Authors about using AI as an indie author.
• “Enterprise self-publishing” is coming, and it will change everything you think you know about publishing and selling books.

If you want to publish your book, email us to find out how we can help.

Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• Overcome your fears, or they will literally cost you money.
• Useful advice for historical fiction authors on creating realistic settings.
• Struggling to write your first novel? Penguin’s authors have some advice.
• Changes are coming to email marketing. It’s not good news, but the sky isn’t falling either.
• DriveThruFiction: how to sell there, and why you should.
• When you’re dealing with covers, merchandise and marketing, you’re going to have to deal with images. And that means understanding things like resolution and DPI.

If you want to publish your book, email us to find out how we can help.

Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• Want to start marketing your books on TikTok?
• Important grammar rules for every author.
• Want to include a quote in your book or on your website? Here’s what you need to know.
• What does the EU Copyright Directive (Article 17 AKA the “link tax”) mean for you?
• Should you choose cost per thousand impressions or cost per click bidding for your BookBub ads?
• Ways to improve dialogue in your writing.
• How to take advantage of Amazon discounting your book.

If you want to publish your book, email us to find out how we can help.

Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• A new initiative means UK authors will get royalties from second-hand book sales.
• You’re going to need to ask for things, so start getting used to it now.
• Marketing tips from the U.S. Book Show 2021.
• How you can sell your books at fairs and farmers markets.
• Are you suffering from creative burnout?
• Self-publishing is a business. It’s not a childish game.
• On forewords and prefaces.

If you want to publish your book, email us to find out how we can help.

Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• ALLi want to hear your thoughts and ideas around AI for indie authors.
• Memoir writers shouldn’t ignore the good times.
• Eight ways to get your emails into more inboxes.
• You should work on building your confidence as an author.
• Many authors are reluctant to be political in their writing, but perhaps they shouldn’t be.
• Building your platform and marketing isn’t selling. It is (or can be) much more fun than that.
• It’s all about style: style sheets, style guides, and writing style.

If you want to publish your book, email us to find out how we can help.

Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• Enhance your fiction by using different conflict styles.
• Why it’s a mistake to ask how much authors earn.
• New scams to watch out for: conference invitations and Goodreads extortion schemes.
• You don’t need to spend money on marketing. You need to use your creativity.
• How to turn an idea into a fully-fledged sci-fi story.
• How to plan out a series.
• Why should you have an author website?

If you want to publish your book, email us to find out how we can help.

Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• Why hire a cover designer?
• How some SelfPub services are using nondisclosure terms to silence their author clients.
• Parentheses: when and how to use them.
• How much money do authors really make from writing books?
• Alliance of Independent Authors has some ideas for more places to sell your books.
• Interesting advice from Lisa Ellison for anyone writing a memoir.
• The challenges of writing your first novel.

If you want to publish your book, email us to find out how we can help.

Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• Many of us have little spare time. Here’s how to make the most of the short periods you have.
• Choosing the right categories for your book can help boost sales.
• There’s no single marketing tactic that will work to sell books.
• Don’t worry about making mistakes with marketing. They’re not just inevitable, they’re essential.
• How the heroine’s journey differs from the hero’s journey, and how to write it well.
• How to write a realistic fight when the combatants aren’t trained in fighting.

If you want to publish your book, email us to find out how we can help.

Every week, we post a curated list of links that authors should find useful or interesting. Here are this week’s links:

• Heart-pounding romance doesn’t have to include sex scenes.
• Your protagonist should be sympathetic, but that doesn’t mean they have to be likeable.
• World building isn’t just for fantasy and scifi authors.
• The writing process: Putting your stories in “the drawer“.
• Struggling to find topics to blog about? Here are 54 ways to find ideas. One for every week of the year, plus a couple of bonuses.
• This is a rather fun way of combining two books back-to-back.

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