By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve been thinking a lot lately about classic television and my kids. I’ve been amazed that they know (and can cite) particular gags or episodes from the 1950s comedy, [...]
by Jenny Bravo, @BlotsandPlots Are you looking for a simple way to publish your e-book? Are you frustrated with formatting and want a better way? Draft2Digital is changing the game for self-published writers. As a [...]
by C.S. Lakin, @CSLakin We writers just want to write, right? But the sad truth is we have to be savvy marketers. And since most authors see the most sales on Amazon, and [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The subject of ISBNs tends to make authors anxious. Sometimes writers are defensive about why they choose not to use them or choose to use the free ISBNs [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Although I don’t make a fortune as an affiliate with Amazon and Apple, so far it’s proven to be reliable income. And it’s fairly passive income. The only problem is [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Goodreads is a popular way for readers to discover new authors and talk about books. As a reader, I’ve found some excellent recommendations there. I frequently hear my [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Once again, I chose to focus on being patient as my New Year’s resolution. By this point, it’s my top recurring resolution of all time. As I’ve written recently, [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Do you read your newsletters from Amazon? I’ll admit that I haven’t for years…not until the final couple of newsletters arrived in my inbox. I’m not much of a [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig For the first time, I’m writing one of the Southern Quilting mysteries on my own. I got the rights to my characters back from Penguin Random House last [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Amazon is sending out emails warning authors that they need to upload corrections to their books or else receive a quality-related warning label on their book page starting [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I realized a couple of weeks ago that I’m working on my 20th book. A lot has changed since book one. I shopped the first couple of books [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve been experimenting with or pursuing different avenues for distribution and visibility. Here are updates on what I’ve been working on with links in case you want to [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’d been hearing a lot about IngramSpark, but I hadn’t ever figured out why I might need them as a print book manufacturer/distributor. My books were on CreateSpace [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig When I was strictly traditionally published, timing a release had nothing to do with me. It was, actually, in my contract. Usually I had a two or three [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Journalist Porter Anderson had an interesting article in Thought Catalog: “Author-Editor Relationships: An Endangered Species?” In it, he says: “One of the things that makes the 2015-2016 transition interesting [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I recently read an interesting post, “My Social Media Mid-Life Crisis” from writer and publishing consultant Dan Blank. In it, Dan talks about how he went from being [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve always been interested in what readers thought and allowed it to influence my writing. That’s because my goal was to be as commercially successful as I could [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’m not so much of a fan of New Year resolutions. They seem too ephemeral for me…like a bucket list or something. There’s no meat to them. It’s [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Much has been written about the control that a self-published writer has over their career and their books. It’s usually portrayed as a good thing. We can choose [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Writers sometimes ask me, usually anxiously, what they can do to help boost sales. Inevitably, they have only one book published. I know when I was just traditionally-published I [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I decided to make a couple of changes to my website, mainly regarding my Books page. I realized that, in the last couple of years since the site [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig By this point, I’ve made my peace with public speaking. I’m even able to look forward to it with a small sense of anticipation—that I’ll get an opportunity to [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Frequently I find that I need the same information over and over again for a wide variety of different tasks. I might be signing up to have my [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Industry experts say that our author newsletter is our most important tool for marketing our books. We can communicate directly with readers who love our books and want to hear [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Self-published writers frequently hear that they need to pass their books by beta readers or critique groups first before sending the stories on to freelance editors (fewer corrections [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA The business side of writing seems to take more and more time. If I knock out my writing goal first, though, I don’t have that [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Although there are so many things that we can try to help us manage parts of our writing careers, I’ve found that some of the best are the [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’m not one of the front-runners, ever, on promotion-related things. I tend to be a lot more cautious. Or, really, it’s more that I’m super-protective of my time [...]
by Joel D Canfield, @SomedayBox I once surveyed all the authors I knew about what they wanted most for their writing. The universal response was “Someone to do my marketing for me.” I considered [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The Novelists, Inc. or NINC, conference in St. Pete Beach, Florida, was chock-full of interesting speakers and takeaways. Looking around the conference rooms, nearly everyone was jotting down [...]
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