By Belinda Griffin I’m in Philadelphia today at the BookBaby Independent Author Conference, then flying back to California. In the meantime, haven’t we all, at one time or another, felt overwhelmed by the idea of marketing our books or building our author...
In the first six months of 2017, traffic on the blog has been robust with 637,811 visitors, serving over 1 million page views. As we continue to offer high-quality content from experts and passionate newcomers to the field of indie publishing, our goal remains the...
When you decided to self-publish you became an author-publisher, and that implies a higher level of seriousness and responsibility than someone just messing around by putting a book out. That’s why you need a plan for how to sell your book, even before you publish it....
In the words of a certain presidential candidate in today’s online world, images are “huge”. In other words, if content is king, then images are, well, Godzilla. Let me explain. In 2014, mobile marketing took over online navigation. People who surf the web...
The concept of “platform” has been around for awhile now. But despite the increased awareness of the need for a platform: to distinguish your work in the marketplace, to help you reach more people, and to allow you to create a thriving community of eager and...