by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig When I wrote a post in October on growing our international reading audience, I mentioned a Facebook group called The International Indie Author, headed by writer Mark Williams. (You must [...]
by Vivian Conroy, @VivWrites When the editor called me to offer me a 3-book deal for my Lady Alkmene Callender 1920s’ mysteries, she told me that after reading a sentence or two she already [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It’s Halloween, the perfect time to mull over fear. I read a lot of really scary stuff online. None of it has to do with monsters, either. There [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Are your books available to an international audience? I’ve found that my international sales have picked up after I implemented a few tweaks. First off, do you have [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I used to feel like the sole, income-focused writer in any group I was in. I was the one on any panel hesitantly bringing up ways that writers could make [...]
by Nina Amir, @NinaAmir Publishing is all business. You have to deal with business plans or proposals, contracts, negotiations, promotion, platform, a publishing company—someone else’s or your own, marketability, taxes, and, of course, [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Family and friends will sometimes lightly tell me they’re sure that I’m going to pen a bestseller. I respond, just as lightly, that I don’t write those types [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig There’s a lot to think about and remember for so many different aspects of book production and book release. I recently shared my checklist for releasing a book. [...]
By Joanna Campbell Slan, @joannaslan Over the years I’ve entered and judged a variety of contests. Since we’ve recently opened our call for entries to the 2016 FREDDIE AWARD for WRITING EXCELLENCE (FAWE) [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Releases are always a lot more work than I think they are. That’s because of all the little things I have to do to prepare. It’s a lot. [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve found that, bottom-line, readers are still interested in purchasing and reading books in print. My print income remains a stable monthly source of revenue. If there is [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig As I wrote in this post in April 2015 (a post which landed me immediately on a couple of different podcasts to elaborate), I have not been much of a [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Writers read a lot about the importance of our author newsletter. Industry expert Jane Friedman explains it well in her post “Email Newsletters for Authors: Get Started [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It used to annoy me when I’d read about how important it was to offer a free book to readers for newsletter signups or as rewards for newsletter [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Those who’ve been reading my blog for a while know that I’ve had something of a bee in my bonnet lately over metadata. When I first heard [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A note today on what I’ve been working on images in our social media posts and a question for trad-pub to self-pub authors regarding Amazon. First, the relatively new importance of [...]
by Jason Kong, @storyrally If you’re wondering whether not charging for selected stories is benefiting your promotional campaign, you’re not alone. With all the free writing flooding the internet, it’s harder to stand [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig This is the second time I’ve gotten the rights to my characters back from a publisher and taken a trad-published series to self-pub. The last time I did [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Last week I read a Washington Post article about doctors who were angered by bad Yelp reviews from patients. They fired back at these patients, revealing confidential information in [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Do you have a social media presence that is gathering cobwebs and making it hard for you to sleep at night? Okay, maybe you’re not losing sleep over [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Today I give you what is likely an incredibly boring post on something I know very little about. But, because I think it’s important, I’m trying to learn [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Here are a few updates on what I’ve found helpful or interesting lately in the promo and writing worlds. For the writer who has multiple releases a year, [...]
by Danika Stone, @Danika_Stone If you’re an author, you’ve no doubt heard the term “Street Team”. It’s one of those phrases that gains popularity in an instant and is thrown around with the [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig About a year ago, I wrote and released a book in a completely different genre than I’ve ever written before. The dystopian novel was something I called ‘cozy zombie’–zombie [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Last year, I decided to try listing a book as a pre-order. That’s to say, I decided to try out a pre-order for my self-published series. My trad-published books had long [...]
by L. Diane Wolfe, @SpunkOnAStick Writers have many options when it comes to getting stories in front of readers. If you’re seeking a traditional publisher or an agent, you’ll need to submit your [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig For Monday’s post, I mentioned that I frequently amend published books with updated back matter. I do this for both Amazon and non-Amazon retailers. Author Deborah Nam-Krane stated in the comments [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One of the things that delights me about self-publishing is the ability to go into a published book’s files and make changes. For my traditionally-published books, I can’t do [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Although I like to declutter and organize at intervals year-round, I do make a more focused effort in the spring. That’s because my RSS feed is full of [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I realized some time back that I get a lot of requests to do things for free. I’m frequently asked to donate books to charities and to speak [...]
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