by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig (with content from @JaneFriedman) I receive one or two emails a month from new writers asking for information and help in either publishing or promoting their book. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I thought I’d give an update on how things are going for various formats and platforms. Wattpad Wattpad is one of my favorite places to upload. The community [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The writing life can be a wonderfully rewarding one. But there can be headaches along the way. Here are five things I’ve learned about being a writer: some [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig From time to time I’ll read about authors whose series were dropped by their publisher for one reason or another (this may be happening more frequently now as [...]
by David Wogahn, @wogahn It seems like indie authors are under siege. First Pronoun, the free eBook distribution service, closed. Then Goodreads announced their free paperback giveaway promotion tool will no longer be [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One of my favorite things about self-publishing is the ability to go back into a published book and make changes. There have been, unfortunately, a few things that [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig As an indie author, I have a good team for all the things I don’t do well or need help with: cover design, editing, and formatting. But I [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’m lucky to have a very good relationship with my readers. We frequently exchange emails. I recently received an email from a reader of mine that I’ve corresponded [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig My strategy for the last couple of years is increase the income streams for my already-published books by branching into international publishing, libraries, and translation. I’m about [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig This is about the time when I start wondering where the year has flown off to. To keep from saying this in December and feeling very off-track, I’ve [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Many times in the past five years, I’ve heard from traditionally-published writers who want to get the rights back to their characters and story worlds for their backlist [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I remember how stressed I was whenever I had a book launch for Penguin Random House. For one thing, the launches were happening pretty regularly, since I was [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Back at the start of the Memphis Barbeque and the Southern Quilting mysteries, I didn’t worry at all about planning the length of the series. That’s because I knew [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Every so often, I run a variation of the same post. It’s a public service announcement to back up your work. I have heard so many horror stories [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was reading through my Feedly RSS feeds (I work and curate links about a month behind in the feed reader) and I came across a post by [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I read a lot of posts that assume that writers have unlimited funds for book production. But many writers who self-publish books are having to fit the process [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig,o9 I’ve recently been interested in expanding my books into every format that I can. Who knows how someone might want to read my books? I’m in digital, print (paperback), [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig When I was a traditionally-published author, I remember my frustration that I didn’t hold any audiobook rights. My publisher held them, but never exploited them. And I regularly [...]
by Mark Gottlieb, @Trident_Media As a literary agent in major trade publishing at the Trident Media Group literary agency, I often have to explain the elements of a good query letter to new [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig When I was first signing a book contract in 2008, I remember that the industry generally scoffed at writers worried about copyright issues. Some writers wondered if they [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Although I was late to sell my books on Google Play, I’ve discovered that my books have sold well there. I was a something of a skeptic about [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve always felt it was important to get my books in libraries. That’s not only because I like the idea of being discovered there (I’ll take readers however [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve been using InstaFreebie since July of last year, but my use was limited to a convenient method of distributing free ebooks to readers or reviewers (and having [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve recently been hearing a lot about a tool called ‘Book Report.’ It is a bookmarklet that you add to your browser (it’s easy to install) that interprets sales [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve been asked by writers and others if I’d ever query traditional publishers again. As a matter of fact, I’ve gotten queried by traditional publishers a couple of times in the past year. [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Is it possible to make a living writing? It definitely is…but if only it were easier! Hope you’ll hop over to Anne R. Allen’s blog where I’ll outline [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig This is the third post in my series on how writers can save time. You can find the first post here (on social media), and the second post [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig When I first started self-publishing, I decided that I wanted to upload each of my books to each individual retail outlet myself. I liked this idea for a [...]
By Michael Alvear And I mean, never. Before I got my first book contract, I thought getting published would be the answer to all my problems. I’d be recognized for the genius I [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig This is my third post on pre-orders. As you might remember, I wasn’t much of a fan of them when I tried them (over much of 2016). This [...]
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