by Joel Friedlander | Mar 7, 2012 | Book Design, Self-Publishing
Sooner or later, as an author who wants to self-publish a book, you’ll come to the question we all face: should you also design your own book? But what’s really behind this question is another question that might help answer the first one: When exactly is...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 5, 2012 | Author Blogging 101, Self-Publishing, Social Media
There’s a pretty important decision you make when you start your author blog. In fact, it’s the second-most important decision you’ll make in the early stages of establishing yourself online. The first decision, of course, is the topic you plan to...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 4, 2012 | Self-Publishing
Lots of talk these days about giving books away as a strategy for selling books, so you know things are still tinged with a bit of chaos. This week we’re lucky to have some incredible guides, to Amazon, self-publishing beyond the book, publicity and DIY...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 29, 2012 | Book Design, Self-Publishing
The tradition in book design of making the first letter in a paragraph larger than the rest of the type goes back pretty far. In fact, it predates printing entirely. This practice started with scribes. When writing out books, they would sometimes treat these first...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 27, 2012 | Author Blogging 101, Self-Publishing, Social Media
When we talk about building an author blog, we’re talking about getting more visitors. For most bloggers, readership size will be the way they usually measure their blog’s growth. Nonfiction authors will have more ways to measure the success of their...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 26, 2012 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
Welcome to this issue of the Carnival of the Indies blog carnival. This issue is for February, 2012. We welcome your submissions on topics related to writing, self-publishing, book design or marketing books. You’ll find here a collection of outstanding articles...