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  • Front Matter: Organizing the Beginning of Your Book
  • Is Offset Printing the Future for Indie Authors?
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  • Grammar, a Marketing Idea, Helvetica Now, and Pitching Junk
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  • Project Focus: Long and Complex Books Demand Attention to Detail
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  • 2016 Edition of The Self-Publisher’s Ultimate Resource Guide, Revised and Expanded
  • 3 Typefaces for Books from Adobe’s Robert Slimbach
  • Hermann Zapf, A Legendary Type Designer
  • Hanging in the Back Matter: Indents Are the Rule
  • 5 Favorite Free Fonts for Interior Book Design
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, July 2015
  • Kindle’s New Bookerly Font and Other Typography Features
  • How to Create an Index for Your Book in Adobe InDesign
  • Book Design: Formatting Poetry Gets A Lot Easier
  • [Video] Adobe InDesign Book Template Quick Look
  • New Today: Book Templates for Adobe InDesign
  • New Self-Publishing Options from Blurb and Book Design Templates
  • How Much Attention Should You Pay to Book Design?
  • Now Create Your Book Covers in Microsoft Word
  • Book Cover Success and Failure Explained
  • The Evolution of a Book Cover: “Bad Elephant Far Stream”
  • How to Design Running Heads for Your Book
  • Breakthrough Technology Cuts Book Formatting Time in Half
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  • Answers to the 7 Biggest Questions About MiniBüks
  • Where Can I Legally Use My Fonts?
  • 12 Steps to Book Design Mastery: A Curriculum
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  • Top 5 Book Design Layout Errors Illustrated
  • Is Interior Book Design a Commodity?
  • Catherine Ryan Howard Interviews The Book Designer
  • Book Design: Pages or Spreads?
  • X Hits the Spot: Why .DOCX is Better than .DOC for Authors Using Word
  • Adding Photos and Creating PDFs in Microsoft Word
  • Your Top 7 Book Design Templates Questions Answered
  • Self-Published Books Get a Major Overhaul with BookDesignTemplates.com
  • Book Designer Confesses: The Truth About Word Processors
  • Book Design Quick Tips for Self-Publishers
  • Getting Started With Microsoft Word Styles for Book Layout
  • Review: The Anatomy of Type by Stephen Coles
  • Book Design, Internet Marketing and the Nature of Human Consciousness
  • Finding Free Fonts for Your Self-Published Book
  • 17 Things Self-Publishers Need to Know about Book Design
  • 21 Top Links to Book Fonts for Self-Publishing
  • Typefaces of 1932: Weiss Roman Specimens
  • eBook Design Today and Tomorrow
  • Picking Fonts for Your Self-Published Book
  • Book Design: Have You Checked Your Margins?
  • Confessions of a Drop-Shadow Addict
  • Book Design: Choosing Your Paragraphing Style
  • 5 Favorite Fonts with Hidden Type Ornaments
  • IBPA Publishing University: Book Design Principles
  • Book Design Case Study: Two Contemporary Novels
  • Should Authors Design Their Own Books?
  • Book Design: 6 Variations on Drop-Cap Typography
  • Two Reasons Why Books Matter
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  • Apple iBooks Author Reinvents eBook Creation
  • Finding Photographs for a Book or Blog Gets Better
  • Hardcover Books Reach New Heights
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2011
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2011 Part 4
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2011 Part 3
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2011 Part 2
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2011 Part 1
  • There's Something Odd About Self-Publishing Books
  • Book Design: Who's the Top Dog?
  • These 3 Typography Websites Will Change How You Look at Type
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, August 2011
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards Information
  • How to Reinvent a Book with a New Book Cover
  • 5 Great Fonts for Book Covers
  • Casewrap Books in Berkeley: Inspiration for Self-Publishers
  • Authors: Why You Should Be Writing in Adobe InDesign
  • Meet Three Amazing Teenage Self-Publishers (Video)
  • Don’t Let me Find You Bleeding in the Gutter—Understanding Book Terminology
  • Using QR Codes to Expand the Reading Experience
  • Amateur-Hour Books: Do You Know the Warning Signs?
  • My Monospaced Life
  • Saturday Q & A With the Book Designer 03: Book Cover Wrap
  • Old John Baskerville and the Birth of Modern Printing Paper
  • Book Cover Design, Fiction and Nonfiction: What's the Offer?
  • Square-Serif Fonts Pack a Typographic Punch
  • Book Design Webinar: What You Need to Know In 17 Short & Awesomely Simple Steps
  • The Problem With Reading Books on the Small Screen
  • Book Design to Sell: 5 Book Interior Page Layout Mistakes to Avoid
  • Case Study: Hardcover Adventure Travel
  • When Self-Published Book Design Goes Bad
  • Marathon: Ebook Design in a Grand Tradition of Bookmaking
  • Lessons From a Do-It-Yourself Book Cover Designer
  • Case Study: History of a 19th Century Sea Captain
  • 24 Practical Tips for Using Photos in your Print on Demand Books
  • Typefaces I Can't Live Without: Adobe Myriad Pro
  • How I'm Going to Book my Blog—Titles & Covers
  • How I’m Going To Book My Blog—Going Long
  • Fun With Fonts—Identifont
  • Ebooks Now & Tomorrow: Interview with Joshua Tallent of Ebookarchitects.com
  • The Holy Grail of Book Design
  • Authors: Wondering How Long Your Book Should Be?
  • Top 10 Tips for Working With A Book Designer
  • The Death of Book Design
  • Book Design to Sell: Fonts for Books
  • Book Design Case Study: Short Stories by Erika Dreifus
  • Book Design for Self-Publishers: Raw Materials
  • Book Design to Sell: Tips for Self-Publishers
  • Self-Publishing Case Study: Nonfiction
  • iPad Martha Stewart Living: The Future of Text?
  • Self-Publishing Case Study: Nonfiction Instruction
  • The Century Typeface: An American Original
  • Book Design & Page Layout Software: A Guide for DIY Authors
  • Self-Publishing Case Study: Nonfiction Hybrid
  • Joanna Penn: Crowdsourcing Your Book Cover Design
  • Typefaces as History: Aldus Manutius and The Noble Bembo
  • Self-Publishing Case Study: Inspirational Photography Book
  • EBooks Today: Futility or Utility?
  • 7 New Typeface Combinations for Book Design
  • A Friend’s Book: Tom Millea and The Book of Palms
  • Friends’ Books
  • Self-Publishing Case Study: Serious Nonfiction
  • Beautiful Details, Beautiful Books: How to Recognize Oldstyle Typefaces
  • Do You Know These 5 Ways to Use Negative Space in Your Book Design?
  • Self-Publishing Case Study: Personal Memoir
  • The Big Book of Font Combinations by Douglas Bonneville
  • Book Design with Microsoft Word: The Art of Moriah Jovan
  • 3 Keys to Beautiful Book Pages
  • 8 Drop Caps For Chapter Openings in Adobe InDesign
  • Self-Publishers Start Here: Understanding Fonts & Typography
  • A Day In The Life of a Blogging Book Designer
  • Book Design: 8 Solutions to the Text Break Dilemma
  • Project Focus: Dancing on the River by Mark Susnow
  • Is the Paradise We’ve Lost the Beautiful Page?
  • Pantone: The Language of Color Reproduction
  • The Typographer’s Curse: Automatic Leading
  • iPad’s ePub: The “Book” of the Future?
  • Project Focus: Exotic Life by Lisa Alpine
  • The Design Process: Choice
  • Carol Twombly, An Extraordinary Type Designer
  • Book Page Layout for a Long Narrative
  • Apple iPad: The Future of the Book Starts Now
  • Apple iPad Typography: Fonts We Actually Want
  • Project Focus: The Poetry of the Typography of Poetry
  • 3 Great Typeface Combinations You Can Use in Your Book
  • Less Expensive, Bite-Sized, Available for Take-Out: The Book of the Future
  • 4 Questions I Ask Myself About E-Books
  • In Response to Your Inquiry: Letter to a Prospective Client
  • Readability and a Lifelong Lesson for Beginning Book Designers
  • Designing Books
  • E M Ginger on Digitizing the Art of the Book
  • 22 Top Book Designer Tasks for Getting Your Self-Published Book Into Print
  • Warning: Even “A-List” Bloggers Need Book Designers
  • Magazines Come in Tablet Form! and the Future of the Book
  • Project Focus: Cover Design with Supplied Artwork for The “And” Principle
  • Self-Publishing Tools: Adobe InDesign CS4
  • Self-Publishing Chapbooks – Personal & Precious
  • Project Focus: Cover Design With Supplied Artwork for Not A Fire Exit
  • Going Undercover—The Story of Knock-Off
  • Three Secrets Your Book Designer Knows
  • Interior Design for Not A Fire Exit by Christopher Finlan
  • Project Focus: Interior Design for Business Mensch by Noah Alper
  • Does Book Design Really Matter?
  • Real World Book Design: Designing for Print-on-Demand Production
  • Indie Business Memoir Scores Major Reviews
  • Project Focus: 2-Color Cover Design for Trade Publishers
  • Independent Bookstores Opening to Self-Published Books?
  • Self Publishing Basics: How to Create Your ARC Cover
  • Project Focus: 2-color Cover Design for Self-Publishers
  • Self-Publishing Basics: 5 Layout Mistakes that Make You Look Unprofessional
  • Project Focus: Interior Design for The Age of Participation
  • Series Design Presents Unique Book Design Challenges
  • Project Focus: Small Square Books
  • 5 Favorite Fonts for Interior Book Design

• Book Printing

  • News Update: Should You Use Lightning Source or Ingram Spark?
  • Guy Kawasaki’s APE: Offset Printing for Self-Publishers
  • Video: Why Publishers Love Hardcover Books
  • Amazon and Lightning Source: The End of an Era?
  • Understanding Book Printing Estimates for Self-Publishers, Part 2
  • When Print on Demand Fails: 6 Scenarios for Offset Printing
  • Understanding Print-on-Demand: Follow the Money
  • Self-Publishers Start Here: Making Print Choices
  • What Does Self-Publishing Cost: Competitive Self-Publisher
  • What Does Self-Publishing Cost? A Preview
  • Preparing Black & White Photos for Your Book
  • Book Production On the Edge: How Lisette Model Got Made
  • How Self-Publishers Get The Most from Pre-publication Printings
  • Book Running Late? Working With 48HrBooks.com
  • Working With Blurb.com for Color Books
  • Self-Publishing to Go, With A Grande Frappuccino, Please!
  • How Print-on-Demand Book Distribution Works
  • Turn The Tables on Self-Publishing Disadvantages
  • The 2.5-Pound Cell Phone and the Future of Book Publishing
  • Creating a PDF for Lightning Source Print-on-Demand in InDesign CS4: Part 2
  • Self-Publishing Basics: Print on Demand—What Is It?
  • Mick Rooney’s Reviews of Publishing Services Companies

• Book Production

  • What Is a Glossary? (FAQ & Examples)
  • What is the Easiest Font to Read?
  • No Time To Write AND Market Your Book? This Should Help…
  • Beware the Impossible Book Project
  • Is This the Best Writer’s Journal Ever?
  • The Epic Saga of WriteWell Journals: Book Production Success
  • Free: Expert Advice for Producing Print Books in the New Book Construction Blueprint
  • The Epic Saga of WriteWell Journals: A Book Production Tale
  • Does Your Book Need a Lay-Flat Binding?
  • Self-Publishing Basics: 5 Book Binding Styles Illustrated
  • CreateSpace Title Information and the New Amazon Success Toolkit
  • Book Design Templates Announces Agreement with Ingram Content Group to Deliver Affordable Book Formatting Solutions
  • Five Free “Must Use” Tech Tools for eBook Authors
  • Review: PDF to InDesign Conversion Software for Book Layout: Markzware PDF2DTP
  • Review: PDF to InDesign Conversion Software for Book Layout: Recosoft PDF2ID
  • Is Formatting for Print Book and Ebooks Too Much Work?
  • World War Word: A Book Formatting Story
  • Ingram Spark Launches: An Interview with Robin Cutler [Audio]
  • How to Publish Your eBook from Word to Kindle in under Ten Minutes
  • Set Up a Workflow That Starts with Styles
  • Self-Publishing, or, "Boxes of Books Blight My Basement"
  • Print on Demand and Book Distribution Guides
  • How to Save Money on Your Book Proof Corrections
  • How to Make a PDF Book That's Realistic
  • Will Children's Book Self-Publishers Survive CPSIA?
  • Saturday Q & A With the Book Designer 05: Book Files
  • After the Ribs: Memorial Day Mail Bag
  • Saturday Q & A With the Book Designer 02
  • Mark Coker of Smashwords at BAIPA: Indie Revolution in Full Swing
  • Self-Publishing News You Can Use: Changes
  • 4 Solutions to the Book Discount System
  • Conversion Journey: My Word-to-E-book Workflow
  • Self-Publishing: Pulling the Trigger
  • Indie Publishing: The Problem With Book Distribution
  • From DIY To Outsourcing: Why Self-Publishers Should Hire Experts And How To Work With Them
  • Print on Demand: CreateSpace or Lightning Source?
  • Mark It Up! PDF Annotation Software
  • 6 Action Tips to Speed Up Your Book Production
  • Galleys
  • Quick & Easy Book Production: Do You Know the Secret?
  • What Does Self-Publishing Cost: Online Self-Publisher
  • What Does Self-Publishing Cost: DIY
  • Authors Keep Formatting When They Should Be Styling
  • ISBN for Self-Publishers: Answers to 20 of your Questions
  • 3 Indie Publishing Discussion Groups: Getting Your Questions Answered
  • Casewrap vs Dust Jacket? Self-Publishers Make the Hard(cover) Choice
  • Straight from the Master: Masterson on Book Design & Production
  • The Speed of Self-Publishing is Best When You Go Slow
  • Creating a PDF for Lightning Source Print-on-Demand in InDesign CS4: Part 3
  • The One Book Every Self-Publisher Should Own
  • A Long Slog through the OCR Swamp
  • Capturing and Using Text from Old Documents in New Book Production

• Book Reviews

  • Amazon Book Review FAQs
  • Do This, Not That – Professional Reviews in the Time of COVID
  • How to Jumpstart Book Reviews for Self-Published Books
  • Book Review: Show Me About Book Publishing by Judith Briles, Rick Frishman, and John Kremer
  • Book Review: If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
  • Review: The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing by Marilyn Ross and Sue Collier
  • Liz Castro: EPUB Straight to the Point
  • Review: Self-Publishing Boot Camp Workbook: 10 Steps to Self-Publishing Success
  • Self-Publishing Books: A Roundup
  • Self-Publishing Book Review: Become a Real Self-Publisher by Michael N. Marcus
  • Self-Publishing Basics: Book Review Sources

• Contributing Writers

  • Book Disclaimers: Everything You Need to Know
  • Keri-Rae Barnum Joins The Book Designer as a Contributing Writer
  • Florence Osmund Joins The Book Designer as a Contributing Writer
  • Beth Barany Joins The Book Designer as a Contributing Writer
  • Publishing Your Book Is Changing on Amazon Kindle
  • Sandra Beckwith Joins The Book Designer as a Contributing Writer
  • Help Wanted: Writer/Editorial Assistant
  • Why Authors Need a “Canned” Introduction
  • Authors and Marketing Fatigue
  • BEA 2017 Insights
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – May 2017
  • Master the Art of Publicity Follow-up with These Simple Tips
  • How to Hitch a Ride on Someone Else’s Holiday to Sell Books
  • Rhythm and Pacing of Writing; The Final Flourish
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – October 2016
  • Self-Publishing News You Can Use — September 2016
  • How to Legally Use Quotations in Your Book
  • A Little Lesson in Dialogue
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That — Interview with Pamela Beason
  • Are Your Readers Getting Digital Fatigue … and, Are You?
  • Do You Write for Young Adults or Millenials? Then Try Snapchat
  • Memorial Day in the U.S.A.
  • Jennie Nash Joins The Book Designer as a Contributing Writer
  • Your Biggest Book Marketing or Platform Building Roadblocks – And How to Overcome Them
  • Scheduled for a TV Appearance … and then the Dreaded Unexpected Happens
  • Why a PDF Isn’t an Ebook
  • 10 Clever Ways to Seriously Grow Your Email List (Plus a Free Checklist + 3 Bonus Strategies)
  • How to Create Titles to Hook Your Readers
  • Why Indie Authors Need a Business Hat
  • Author Groups to Help You Write, Publish, and Promote Your Books
  • 7 Book Marketing Trends Authors Can’t Afford to Ignore
  • Dictating a Book? Tips for Editing the First Draft
  • Is Your Book Lost at Sea?
  • Top 10 Blog Posts of 2015 on The Book Designer
  • The Ebook Retail Universe
  • How To Build Your Author Brand From Scratch (And Why You Need To)
  • Author-Editor Collaboration: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  • Why Books Are the Best … for Gifts!
  • Jump in the Convertible: Ebook Conversion Tools
  • Getting Ready for an Edit: How to Help Your Editor and Save Money
  • Author Alert: Is Your Book Held Hostage by a Subsidy Publisher?
  • The 5 Basic Elements of an Author Website
  • Preparing Images for Your e-Book
  • Four Options for a Fiction Manuscript Evaluation
  • Tricks and Traps of Using Real People in Your Writing, Part 3: Invasion of Privacy
  • How to Become a Successful Author
  • Authors: Have You Blabbed or Scoped Yet?
  • Manuscript to Ebook: A Cleaning Guide
  • Tricks and Traps of Using Real People in Your Writing, Part 2: What is Defamation?
  • What is Defamation?
  • 7 Tips for Proofreading Your Book
  • Crowdfunding Success Can Be Yours
  • Got a Pen Name? You’re in Great Company – Now Here’s How to Market Your Books
  • 5 Awesome Benefits to Writing Flash Fiction for Your Email Subscribers
  • Copyediting: It’s Not Rocket Surgery
  • Get Started on Twitter in 7 Simple Steps
  • 4 Ways to Create an ePub eBook
  • Cool and Not So New Social Media Networks for Indie Authors
  • Should Writers Incorporate?
  • The Email Marketing Trap Fiction Writers Must Avoid
  • What IS an Ebook?
  • Can Using Editing Tools Improve Your Writing?
  • Wannabe Author to the Real Thing in 5 Steps
  • 5 Ways to Get Early Feedback on Your Book Idea or Manuscript
  • 10 Reasons Why You Should Interview Your Fellow Fiction Authors
  • Short is the New Black: Your Shrinking Reader Attention Span
  • Social Media Dashboards for Authors: Free Apps May Not Be Your Best Option
  • How to Spot a Rights Grab
  • How to Spot a Rights Grab
  • The 3+ Hats Every Indie Author Must Wear
  • How to Use an Anthology as a Powerful Marketing Tool
  • Managing the Beta Reading Process
  • Your Author and Book Marketing Formula Starts with YOU
  • How to Use Lyrics Without Paying a Fortune or a Lawyer
  • Podcasting and Indie Authors: Is Podcasting Right for You?
  • So You Want to Write a Book? Just Do It!
  • What the Art of Storytelling Can Teach Us about Marketing
  • Stop Thief! Writers and Plagiarism
  • A Step-by-Step Guide to Dealing with Content Theft
  • The Princess Author Syndrome
  • Turn Yourself Into an Authorpreneur
  • The Fiction Writer’s 3-Step Process to Creating a Compelling Marketing Offer
  • Tax Tips for Writers Who Hate Math
  • Wanted: How to Find Your Best Editor
  • Authors: Is There a Photographer in Your Midst?
  • Authors: Plan Your Marketing with a Content Calendar
  • 12 Ways to Use Your Blog to Achieve Expert Status
  • Contributing Writers: Most Popular Posts for 2014
  • How to Improve Your Fiction Marketing Through Peer Collaboration: 11 Quotes From the Experts
  • 19 Best Books To Learn Self-Editing for Fiction Writers
  • Self-Publishing Authors: Did You Fail? Awesome!
  • 20 Ways to Become a More Productive Writer
  • Trademark: Let’s Meet Copyright’s Half Sister
  • 7 Email Marketing Secrets Every Fiction Writer Should Know
  • Editors’ Post-NaNo Tips for Revising Your Novel
  • Video for Authors
  • 7 Ways Writers Can Use Facebook Rooms
  • How Romeo and Juliet Can Help You Write Your Next Book
  • 6 Ways to Write a Quick Free Ebook to Build Your Mailing List
  • 5 Marketing Mistakes That Beginning Fiction Writers Make
  • Is Crowdsourced Editing Right for Your Book?
  • Thou Shalt Blog?
  • AuthorRise Shows Promise for Indie Writers
  • Should You Be Using a Pen Name?
  • Warning: Discoverability Dependency is Hazardous to Your Fiction Marketing
  • What Does Editing Look Like? Behind the (Crime) Scene at the Editor’s Screen
  • Book Apps with Authorly
  • 21 Tips for Creating a Successful Writing Collaboration
  • 4 Ways Authors Can Rock on Twitter
  • How to Create a Blog Plan for Any Type of Book
  • How to Market Your Fiction Writing Through the Brilliance of Other Authors
  • 5 Ways an Editor is Like a Dentist
  • Playtime with Amazon’s Search Engine and Selling Prompts
  • Do You Know Who Owns Your Book Cover?
  • The Ultimate Guide to Twitter for Writers
  • 6 Branding Tips for Writers and Authors
  • 9 Self-Publishing Fiction Writers You Should Follow Today
  • What Kind of Self-Pub Are You? A Questionnaire and Tips for Maximizing Your Self-Pub Style
  • Helen Sedwick Joins The Book Designer as a Contributing Writer
  • Who’s Your Distributor: Smashwords or Draft2Digital?
  • How to Make Sure You’re Not Wasting Time on Social Media
  • 10 Ways to Test Market Your Nonfiction Book Idea Before You Publish
  • Do You Make These Online Marketing Mistakes?
  • Are Your Readers Trying to Tell You Something? How to Use Reader Feedback to Improve Your Writing
  • Selling Ebooks on Google Play: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • Facebook Ads: Should Indie Authors Buy Them?
  • The Secret Sauce for Indie Publishers: Attitude
  • 7 Things Your Fiction Fans Want to Hear You Say
  • 4 Levels of Editing Explained: Which Service Does Your Book Need?
  • Why Ebook Authors Need to Embrace New Technologies
  • 15 Must-Follow Twitter Accounts for Self-Published Writers
  • How to Fill a “Hole” on the Bookstore Shelf
  • How to Keep Your Fiction Marketing Lean and Focused
  • 5 Things You Should Know about Working with Beta Readers
  • 13 Great Tools to Analyze and Measure Your Social Media Results

• Cover Design

  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, November 2020
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, October 2020
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2020
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, August 2020
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, July 2020
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, June 2020
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  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, April 2020
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, March 2020
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, February 2020
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, January 2020
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, December 2019
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, November 2019
  • Stop Guessing: Split Test Your Cover with PickFu
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, October 2019
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2019
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, August 2019
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – September 2019
  • Book Cover Trends Through the Decades
  • You CAN Tell an (e)Book by Its Cover
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, July 2019
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, June 2019
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, May 2019
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards Submissions – What You Need to Know
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, April 2019
  • 72 Free Image Sources for Authors
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, March 2019
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, February 2019
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, January 2019
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, December 2018
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, November 2018
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, October 2018
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2018
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, August 2018
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, July 2018
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, June 2018
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, May 2018
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, April 2018
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, March 2018
  • 9 Ways a Crappy Book Cover Can Sabotage a Marketing Campaign
  • The Book Blueprint: A Cover Evolves
  • New: Save $50 This Month on a Beautiful Custom Designed Cover for Your Book
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, February 2018
  • Pre-Designed Book Covers (12 Beautiful Examples)
  • 3 Inspirational Design Ideas from Bestselling Book Covers
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, January 2018
  • 7 Best Book Cover Trends to Stay Current in 2018
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, December 2017
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, November 2017
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, October 2017
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2017
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, August 2017
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, July 2017
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, June 2017
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, May 2017
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, April 2017
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, March 2017
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, February 2017
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, January 2017
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, December 2016
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, November 2016
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, October 2016
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2016
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, August 2016
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, July 2016
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, June 2016
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, May 2016
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, April 2016
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, March 2016
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, February 2016
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, January 2016
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, December 2015
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, November 2015
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, October 2015
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2015
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, August 2015
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, June 2015
  • Book Cover Design Behind the Scenes
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, May 2015
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, April 2015
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, March 2015
  • How I Used My Self-Published Book to Teach My Students
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, February 2015
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, January 2015
  • 2014 e-Book Cover Design Award Winners
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, December 2014
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, November, 2014
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, October 2014
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2014
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, August 2014
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, July 2014
  • 5 Keys to Book Cover Success
  • The Cover That Wasn’t and the Cover That Was: Homeowner With a Gun
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, June 2014
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, May 2014
  • Using Freelancer Contests for Your eBook Covers
  • 15 Articles on Cover Design for Self-Publishers
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, April 2014
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, March 2014
  • 2013 eBook Cover Design Winners
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, January 2014
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, December 2013
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, November 2013
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, October 2013
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2013
  • Looking for the Perfect Book Cover Design? The Crowd at 99designs.com Has You Covered
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, August 2013
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, July 2013
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, June 2013
  • The Art of the Book Cover with Laura Duffy, Designer
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, May 2013
  • 7 Secrets to Writing Persuasive Back Cover Sales Copy
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, April 2013
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, March 2013
  • Vote for a New eBook Cover Design Award Badge
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, February 2013
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, January 2013
  • Why You Should Judge a Book By Its Cover
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, December 2012
  • A Book Cover’s Evolution—Embrace of the Daimon
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, November 2012
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, October 2012
  • Top 5 Goals for your Book or eBook Cover
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2012
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  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, July 2012
  • eBook Cover Design Award Guest Judges
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, June 2012
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  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, February 2012
  • Book Cover Design and the Problem of Symbolism
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, December 2011
  • Print and e-Book Covers, a Matter of Resolution
  • 3 Secrets to e-Book Cover Design Success
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, November 2011
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards, October 2011
  • e-Book Cover File Size Specifications
  • Monthly e-Book Cover Design Awards
  • Book Cover Design Symposium in Your Inbox
  • Self-Publishing Bang for the Buck
  • 15 Ebook Covers: Success and Failure in the Kindle Store
  • The Art of Illusion: Creating Book Cover Art for Joanna Penn’s Pentecost
  • Top 8 Cover Design Tips for Self-Publishers
  • 4 Incredible Free Sources for Photos to Use in Your Book or Blog
  • 3 Ways Self-Publishers Fail at Cover Design
  • Project Focus: Book Cover Design for The Spirit of the River
  • 2D or not 2D? That is the Question

• E-Books & Readers

  • Going Against the Flow: Reflowable vs. Fixed-Layout Ebooks
  • PublishDrive All In on Subscription Model
  • The Problem with Enhanced Ebooks
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That (4 Important Takeaways)
  • The Convertible Cloud, Extended — Google Docs
  • Fun with Formats: mobi/Kindle
  • SEVEN Things You Should Be Including in Your Ebook (Revisited)
  • Now You Seem Them… — A CSS Trick for New and Old Kindles
  • The Convertible Cloud Revisited
  • Fun with Fonts — Getting Ebook Typefaces Right
  • Knowing Right and Wrong — Fun with Copyright
  • Driving a New Path: PublishDrive’s Subscription Option
  • Words Gone Wild: KDP Keywords Revisited
  • Battle Royale: PDF vs. ePub
  • How to Get Started with Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)
  • Selling Out: Going Wide or Going Exclusive to Amazon
  • To Free or Not to Free: Giving Away Your Ebook
  • Fun with Formats, Part I: ePub2 vs. ePub3
  • Stacking Boxes: Creating a Compilation Ebook
  • The Price Is Right: 6 Secrets to Pricing Your Ebook
  • Pronoun Is Dead: The Ebook Retail Universe Redux
  • Links to Happiness: Using Universal Links to Sell Your Ebook
  • Punch Your Ticket: 5 Tips for Validating Your Ebook
  • Mining Gold: Taking Control of Your Metadata
  • Aggregation without Aggravation: Pronoun and PublishDrive
  • Fancy Free: Some Fun CSS Tricks for Ebooks
  • Pulling It Together: Editing Your Ebook
  • Styling Priorities: CSS for Ebooks #3
  • Elements of Style: CSS for Ebooks #2
  • Elements of Style: CSS for Ebooks
  • Speaking in Code: Ebook HTML basics
  • Ebook Anatomy: Inside the Black Box
  • Laying Track: Tracking Ebook Links on Google Analytics
  • The Convertible Cloud: Ebook Conversion Online
  • Avast! Piracy and the Self-Publisher
  • 2015 eBook Cover Design Winners
  • Pew Study Warns: Your Smartphone May Have Eaten Your E-Reader
  • New: Pre-Orders on Apple iBooks Without “Assets”
  • Updating Your Ebook After Publication
  • Dropcards for e-Books: Digital Downloads with a Difference
  • Ebooks Now and In the Future: Interview with Tracy Atkins
  • [Video] What’s Up At BookBaby.com? Interview with Steven Spatz
  • Ebooks: What a Long Strange Trip
  • Six Things You Should Be Including in Your EBook (and Probably Aren’t)
  • E-books For Real: E-book Gift Cards from Livrada and Enthrill
  • eBook Cover Design Award Badge Winner
  • eBook Cover Design Awards Coming Tomorrow
  • Is It Worth Converting an Old Book Into an eBook?
  • Typography in Kindle? Yes, we can
  • eBook Cover Design Awards, January 2012
  • Print Books: The New Vanity Publishing?
  • Real eBooks: Are We Still in the Stone Age?
  • Lee Foster’s Ebook Publishing Revolution, Part 2
  • Lee Foster’s Ebook Publishing Revolution
  • Video: Brian Felsen of BookBaby.com on the Future of e-Books
  • My Incredible Journey from Print to Indie e-Book Author
  • Book Designer Travel Day
  • Amazon Kindle Fire: Setting the Tablet World Ablaze?
  • ePub, ePub Everywhere, What's a Blogger to Do?
  • The 40k Books Keyword Interview on The Future of the Book
  • Independent Publishing: That's Evolution!
  • e-Book Cover Design Awards: Do We Need Them?
  • 10 Things You Should Know About e-Book Formatting
  • TheBookDesigner Blog Stats and Coming Attractions
  • Apple, iOS5 and the Holy Grail for Users
  • Smartphone e-Reader App Reviews: Kindle by Amazon
  • Top 10 Best Resource Guides for e-Book Authors
  • e-Book Sales on Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch: A 73-Second Seminar
  • Smartphone e-Reader App Reviews: Google Books by Google
  • At the (San Francisco) Bay Area Editors' Forum
  • Smartphone e-Reader App Reviews: Stanza by Lexcycle
  • Fiction vs. Nonfiction E-Book Pricing in the Kindle Store
  • Joanna Penn's Step-by-Step Guide to E-Book Publishing
  • Apple's Incredible iPad, One Year In
  • iPad Wallpaper
  • Getting Started with Barnes & Noble's Pubit!—A Mini-Tutorial
  • Making eBook Conversion Decisions
  • Instant Gratification: Books Meet Kindle Publishing
  • Smartphones: The Next Home of the Ebook?
  • Need Ebook Conversions? Check the Ebook Conversion Services Directory
  • Getting Up to Speed with eBooks—4 Videos
  • Seth Godin, Rupert Murdoch and Apple Make the News of the Day
  • Apple iPad: Top Technology/Publishing Story of 2010
  • Google eBookstore: Your Next Sales Platform?
  • Apple iPad and Life on the Cloud
  • 6 Keys to Self-Publishing Success in the Age of the Ebook
  • The Ebooks are Coming! the Ebooks are Coming!
  • E-Book Readers: Retailers Load Up Their Shelves
  • Sundman: Friedlander on the Future of Publishing
  • The Writer’s iPad: Apple’s Pages Does Words & Layout
  • A Tale of Two E-Books
  • Apple’s Pages ePub Export: First Look
  • Self-Publishers Start Here: Ebooks and Ebook Readers
  • Amazon Kindle vs. Apple iPad: Could Chris Brogan Be Wrong?
  • Will Apple Sell 12 Million iPads This Year?
  • Storyist Software Offers Easy ePub to Self-Publishers
  • The E-Book in 2020: What’s On Your Wishlist?
  • Wired Magazine and VQR: 2 Ways to iPad
  • Apple iPad Chronicles: 5 Apps for Self-Publishers
  • Managing Your eBook Library with Calibre
  • Apple iPad, the New Mall of America?
  • Books on the iPad’s iBookstore
  • MyPad

• Editorial

  • Marlowe, A.I. for Novels: Does It Measure Up to Its Namesakes?
  • Edit For Your Reader: An Exercise and Checklist
  • Working with (Those Dreaded) Editors
  • Beta Readers vs Editors vs ARCs
  • Editing for Frugal Self-Publishers
  • Editorial Assessments: Finding Music in the Noise
  • Do You Know Where Your ISBNs Are? (Free Logbook Download)
  • Copyediting: It Doesn’t End With Your Manuscript
  • Copyediting or Proofreading? Getting the Most for Your Editing Dollar
  • Whose Story Is It? Self-Editing for Point of View
  • Top 5 Ways Authors Sabotage Their Own Book
  • 5 Steps for Editing a Novel from the Inside Out
  • Ascent of the Metadata
  • Developmental Editing with Alan Rinzler [Video Interview]
  • How to Find the Just-Right Freelance Editor
  • 7 Deadly Myths and 3 Inspired Truths About Book Editing
  • A Professional Editor Takes on Self-Editing
  • 6 Ways Copyeditors Make Your Book Better
  • Self-Publishing Basics: Introduction to Metadata
  • Self-Publishers Beware
  • A Book Editor Speaks: The Challenge of the First Chapters
  • The No-Stress Way for Writers to Outline
  • Fact and Fiction on the Copyright Page
  • Saturday Q & A With the Book Designer 04: Copyright Questions
  • Making the Author-Editor Connection: The Importance of Being Edited
  • How to Set Up Your Book on Bowkerlink for Books in Print
  • How I'm Going To Book My Blog—And You Can Too
  • The Big Problem With Blogging Your Book
  • Avoiding the Deadly Scourge of Author’s Alterations
  • 9 Book Design Tips that Authors Need to Know
  • How Public Domain Publishing Can Grow Your Business
  • Self-Publisher’s Quick Guide to Copyright: A Report
  • The Secret to Successful Self-Publishing
  • Top 10 Myths, Lies and Misinformation about Copyright
  • What Every Writer Ought to Know about Fair Use and Copyright
  • What Every Self-Publisher Ought to Know about Editing
  • How We Solved The “Rejection” Problem
  • How to Create, Register and List Your New Publishing Company
  • The 9 Best Funny and Helpful Blogs About Grammar
  • Copyright Page Requirements for Books Printed Overseas
  • Self Publishing Basics: How to Read an ISBN

• Guest Posts

  • Kate Tilton Joins The Book Designer as a Contributing Writer
  • Gone Fishing
  • Smelling Roses
  • Lee Foster Joins The Book Designer as a Contributing Writer
  • 7 Essential Questions for Crowdfunding at Inkshares
  • Top 5 Public Speaking Behaviors that Can Make You Appear Dishonest
  • How to Sell More Books on Amazon (Using the 4 Ps of Marketing)
  • Why You Should Market to Grow Your Author Platform–Not to Sell Books
  • Core Message Marketing Toolkit: The Author’s Must-Have Power Tool!
  • Get Ready, Get Set, Go Publish That Novel
  • 11 Top Tips for Making Money from Your Writing and Photography in 2017
  • Four Truths and Four Myths That Every New Novelist Should Know
  • The Gearbox Method of Book Publishing
  • Fiction Writers: A Simple Approach to Build a Better Email List
  • When Failure Isn’t an Option — How to Find Your Readers
  • The What, Why, and How of Author Platforms
  • 9 Steps to Getting Your Self-Published Books into Libraries
  • Indie Authors: Focus on What Matters Most and Take Action Now
  • 3 Mistakes You Made Writing Your First Book (and How Not to Make Them Again)
  • The Importance of Keywords to Ranking Your Book on Amazon
  • 7 Ways to Nail Your Author SEO in 2016
  • 16 Paradoxes Created by Technology—Byting Off More than We Can Chew
  • Writers, Are You Willing to Play the Waiting Game?
  • The A-B-C-D Formula for Irresistible Nonfiction Book Titles
  • National Novel Writing Month — Who Should Try and Why
  • Pay-What-You-Want Pricing: Does It Work for Books?
  • How to Succeed with Your Blogged Book or Booked Blog Project
  • 14 Ways to Crash Your Book Launch – Authors, DO NOT Try This at Home
  • How I Used Twitter to Find a Literary Agent, Grow My Business and Fall In Love
  • 15 Essential Time-saving Tools for Busy Writers
  • Authors: Increase Your Success Rate with Book Buyers
  • After-Hours Number and Your Personal Email in Your Press Release?
  • Fiction Writers: How to Find Your Ideal Reader
  • Nonfiction Authors: How to Find Your Ideal Reader
  • Top 7 Ways Authors Are Using Instagram
  • Your Book Landing Page—Can’t-Miss Headline Writing Secrets (and Mistakes to Avoid)
  • The Potential Perils and Pitfalls of Signing with a Small Press – And How to Avoid Them
  • Be Accountable to the Muse: A Creative Approach to the Writer’s Production Plan
  • 14 Definitions You Need to Know When Creating an Author Media Kit
  • 6 Reasons You Should Self-Publish
  • Self-Publishing: The Scenic Route
  • 5 People You Need on Your Team When You Self-publish a Kids’ Book
  • 6 Things to Consider When Writing Promotional Copy for Your Book
  • 8 Essentials Tips for a Successful Book Reading by a Self-Published Author
  • Google+ Hangouts For Authors
  • Christian Book Marketing (8 Essential Questions Answered)
  • The Best Time NOT to Self Publish? Never!
  • How I Assembled My Own Self-Publishing Team
  • A Step-by-Step Guide to Book Publishing with Createspace
  • How to Profit from Your Content by Thinking Outside the Book
  • Nina Amir, Frances Caballo, Jason Kong, Corina Koch Macleod / Carla Douglas, and Jason Matthews Join the Book Designer as Contributing Writers
  • Indie Publisher: The New Publishing Entrepreneur
  • When to Self-Publish: A Publisher’s Perspective
  • 7 Tips for Indie Authors to Thrive Together: Care and Feeding of Your Writers’ Collective
  • How AK Booster Can Help Your Books Stand Out on Amazon
  • Why Self-Publishers Should Go it Alone, Together
  • I Want to Make You Famous
  • To Succeed as an Author, Get Your ASK Out There!
  • Overcome Writing Failure With a Personalized Writing Plan
  • Do You Need a Social Media Manager?
  • Self-Publishing 101: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly!
  • How to Write a Good Book in 30 Days
  • How to use Pinterest to Promote Your Book
  • 4 Time-Saving Social Media Tips for Authors
  • How Searchable are Your Book’s Title and Subtitle?
  • 6 Ways Twitter Lists Can Help Build Your Author Platform
  • How to Sell Books From Your Website: Top 3 E-commerce Solutions for Authors
  • 4 Must-Know Tips to Reach Your Writing and Publishing Goals
  • 7 Reasons Why Social Media Isn’t Growing Your Fiction Readership (And What to Do About Them)
  • Three Easy Steps to Selling a LOT More Books and Information Products
  • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Book Shepherds, Part 2
  • Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Book Shepherds, Part 1
  • Keys to Understanding Amazon’s Algorithms
  • 5 Successful Marketing Strategies For Fiction Authors
  • 5 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Start Building Your Fanbase
  • New Crowdfunding Options for Authors from Pubslush.com
  • The Art of Setting Goals: It’s Not Always “Go Big or Go Home”
  • Do You Know These 9 Huge Opportunities Even Smart Authors Miss?
  • The 4 Best Strategies for Savvy Self-Publishers
  • Writers: It’s Time to Think About Taxes
  • Why Even a Novelist Should Know How to Write Strong Copy
  • 10 Things I’ve Learned About Self-Publishing
  • 5 Reasons It’s Hard to Market Indie Fiction and What to Do About It
  • Manuscript Critiques—A Help or a Hindrance?
  • How Twitter Hashtags Help Authors Find Readers
  • Guide to Book Launch and Advance Sales Strategies with CreateSpace and Lulu
  • From Author To Entrepreneur: How to turn your knowledge into multimedia products
  • The 5 Keys to Pain-Free Book Promotion
  • Case Study: Adventures in Publishing
  • Blog2Book: Making the Most of Your Material
  • Are You Making These 7 Book Marketing Mistakes?
  • Adding Google Analytics Tracking Code to WordPress
  • 3 Really Good Self-Publishing Ideas and 5 Hilariously Bad Ones
  • What to Expect When You’re Expecting to Work with a Pro Book Designer
  • How Plugins Can Take Your Author Website from Okay to Outstanding
  • 4 Quick Tips for Authors to Get Website Traffic Fast!
  • Creating an Author Brand to Boost Your Platform
  • The 8 Steps on My Publishing Journey
  • My Path to The Edge of Maybe
  • How to Test Market Your Book Idea with a Blog
  • Self Publishing on Unwavering Faith
  • 7 Ways to Mine Blog Posts into Publishable Gold
  • Overcoming Obstacles to Create an Author Blog
  • Authors: How to Be a Great Radio Interview
  • Leaving Story Avenue: One Author’s Tale of Going Indie
  • Authors Can’t Be Too Pooped to Market!
  • How to Get a Self-Published Book Into Bookstores (5 Guaranteed Ways)
  • Analytics: Three Keys to Building Your Author Platform
  • Branding: Where Marketing and Writing Become Friends
  • The Secret to Schmooze Book Marketing
  • 5 Top Tools for Promoting Your Book on Twitter
  • Playing Tag the Self-Publisher Way
  • Self-Publishing a Craft Beading Book in Full Color at CreateSpace
  • How to Choose the Best Method for Publishing Your Book
  • Dear Author: Deciding on a Voice
  • Do Writers Really Need a Book Business Plan?
  • Book Review: Virtual Book Tour Magic by Dana Lynn Smith
  • What Authors Need to Know About Virtual Book Tours
  • Notes from a Self-Publishing "Success Story"
  • Second Life: Virtual Book Promotion and Word of Mouth
  • How to Get Started Mind Mapping Your Book (and everything else)
  • Writers: How to Open With a Bang!
  • If I Were You: The Journey of a Book
  • An Author's Guide to Book Birthers, Book Shepherds and other Consultants
  • The Power of Persistence in Indie Publishing
  • Guest Blogging Success Podcast Series: Personalizing your Guest Blogging Strategy
  • Self-Publishers Speak: Weaving Your Safety Net Mid-leap

• Interior Design

  • Apple iPad: E-Book Reading, Kindle-Killing, Business-Saving Product of the Century?
  • Does Anyone Actually Like eReaders?

• Interviews

  • Surviving Difficult Times and Blog News: Interview with Joel Friedlander
  • Interview: Andrea Ring on Becoming a Bestselling Author (and Her Experience with Promoter Rebecca Hamilton)
  • 5 Questions on Self-Publishing Success, the Peecho.com Interview
  • The 0s&1s Interview: Self-Publishing and the Art of Commerce
  • What Makes an Authorpreneur? I Tell My Story
  • APE-ing Your Book with Guy Kawasaki [Audio]
  • Georgia Deaver: Master of Pen and Brush
  • Audio: Interview with Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound
  • What’s New at Lulu.com? Video Interview with Sarah Gilbert
  • Video: Dan Blank of We Grow Media on Challenges for Authors
  • Tom Evans and The Art and Science of Lightbulb Moments [Video]
  • Interview: Sally Collings Talks Book Marketing with TheBookDesigner
  • Self-Publishing and Distribution: Jacqueline Simonds of Beagle Bay Books, Part 2
  • Self-Publishing and Distribution: Jacqueline Simonds of Beagle Bay Books, Part 1
  • Self-Publisher with Drive: The Amazing Tania McCartney
  • Lee Foster’s iPhone Book-Apps: Little Guys Can Win
  • Bowker’s Andy Weissberg on ISBNs and the Future of the Book
  • Where Beauty Meets Art: An Interview with Jennifer Robin, Author of Growing More Beautiful
  • Interview with Chris Finlan, Author of Not A Fire Exit

• Journey of a Book

  • I Found a Book in My Garage; How a New Book Can Come Out of the Blue

• Legal Issues

  • Are There Pirates in Your Book’s Midst?
  • Using Family Photos, Letters and Stories
  • Tricks and Traps of Using Real People in Your Writing, Part 1: The Right of Publicity
  • My Top 7 Tips For Authors Who Want to Evolve into Book Publishers
  • Monday Mailbag: Self-Publishing Questions & Answers
  • 7 Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Self-Publishing Company
  • Monday Mailbag, Self-Publishing Questions and Answers
  • Monday Mailbox, Questions and Answers on Self-Publishing
  • Wednesday Mailbag: Answers to 18 Self-Publishing Questions
  • 5 Top Legal Issues for Authors and Self-Publishers
  • Mailbag Monday With Answers to your Self-Publishing Questions
  • The Subsidy Author's Bill of Rights
  • New: Self-Publisher’s Quick & Easy Guides
  • Self-Publishers Start Here: Planning Your Book
  • Creative Commons: What Every Self-Publisher Ought to Know
  • Fair Use, The Rights of Personality, and Unintended Consequences

• Marketing

  • Bashing the Myths of Social Media in 2021
  • Get Book Reviews: Your Novel Can Always Find New Audiences
  • Promote Your Book With a Shoestring Budget
  • How To Find Your Target Audience, Part One
  • A Few of My Favorite Author Marketing Tools
  • Do This, Not That – Tis the Season? Launching Your Book During the Holidays
  • Open, Click, Buy – How to Sell Anything via Your Newsletter
  • Why Authors Should Know Their Target Audience
  • MUST DO Steps for Amazon Campaigns for eBooks
  • Book Promotion: Do This Not That – August 2020
  • 6 Marketing Tips: Advice from a 12 Year Old Author
  • Book Summaries Make Sales for Nonfiction Authors
  • 5 Ways to Use Videos to Promote Authors and Their Books
  • Why You Need a Template for Your Newsletter (and What to Put in It)
  • Don’t Confuse a Book Endorsement With a Review
  • Write/Right for the Market
  • The Book Sales Limp Along Factor
  • Do This, Not That – Blog Tours
  • Marketing is a Relationship: A Roadmap for Novelists
  • 6 Ideas for Promoting Your Book While Watching TV
  • The Art of Condensing an Entire Book into a Brief Sales Pitch
  • Amazon is a Data Gathering and Filtering Tool
  • It’s a Wide WIDE Virtual World!
  • How to Make Awesome Book Trailers (and Why!)
  • Do This Not That: Book Promotion During a Pandemic
  • 4 Elements to Craft Your Author Bio
  • What’s in a (Pen) Name? An Argument Against Noms de Plumes
  • What’s Your Author Brand?
  • Change Your Author Blog into an Author Website
  • Amazon is a Search Engine–Make Your Book an Easy-to-Find Product
  • Attract Your Readers: 4 Steps to Your Author Branding Statement
  • 8 Ways to Make Your Book’s Press Release Work Harder
  • Book Promotion: Do This Not That – February 2020
  • Canva Versus Book Brush
  • 5 Steps to Create the Tagline for Your Author Brand
  • Let Your Characters Engage with Fans Online
  • Sales Techniques to Help You Sell More Books
  • 3 Fiction Marketing Success Tips for 2020
  • Clean Up Your Newsletter’s Subscriber List
  • Book Promotion: Do This Not That – November 2019
  • Promote Your Book with Local Collaborations
  • How to Optimize Your Website for Newsletter Sign-Ups
  • 3 Ways to Get Past What’s Holding You Back
  • Have I Got a Book for You! Compelling Book Descriptions – Part 2
  • Have I Got a Book for You! Compelling Book Descriptions – Part 1
  • 10 Reasons Readers Unsubscribe From Newsletters
  • 3 Ways to Get Your Dream Endorsement
  • Planning Your Book Launch
  • Engineer Success with a Good Marketing Strategy
  • 6 Goals for Your Newsletter Welcome Emails
  • Book Promotion as a Public Service
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – August 2019
  • Embed Words in Your Photos for Discovery
  • 13 Ways to Use a Book Award for Marketing
  • 3 Secrets to an Effective Landing Page
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – July 2019
  • Is Your Website Protected … Better Yet, Are YOU?
  • Book Publicity and Promotion – 10 Essential FAQs Answered
  • 3 Dos for Getting Reviews (and 4 Don’ts)
  • Snag Book Publicity with a Roundup Article
  • 14 Content Ideas for Author Newsletters
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – June 2019
  • The Author-in-the-Headlights Syndrome
  • Can You Sell Your Books in Bite (Byte) Size Chunks?
  • Use Expert Sources To Generate Local Book Publicity
  • How Can I Promote My Book For Free?
  • 9 Reasons Authors Need Newsletters
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – May 2019
  • Don’t Reinvent the Publishing Wheel … Discover the Freedom of Repurposing
  • Sell More Books With Guest Blogging
  • Start with Your Accordion Mostly Closed
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – March 2019
  • As the Author World Turns on Amazon Book Review Policies
  • 3 Book Marketing Myths to Avoid
  • 7 Myths of Using Press Releases to Promote Your Books
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – February 2019
  • 3 Author Success Essentials
  • Book Marketing Insanity
  • Street Teams: How to Run a Smooth and Successful Campaign
  • Advertising with Barnes and Noble
  • 9 Inexpensive Revenue Streams for Broke or Struggling Authors
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – January 2019
  • What’s in Your Signature?
  • 12 SEO Tips to Drive Traffic and Sell Books
  • Create Fast, Free, Festive Images in Seconds with PhotoFunia
  • Seth Godin’s Marketing in 5 Steps (for Authors)
  • Where Did the Amazon Reviewers Go? [Updated]
  • A Novelist’s Anguished Cry—Can You Help?
  • How Improving Your Author Website Can Help Sell More Books
  • 5 Questions on the Book Production and Marketing Matrix
  • 13 Places to Speak and Meet New Readers
  • Have You Pre-Sold Your Book?
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – November 2018
  • Does Anyone Care About Your Book?
  • The Writing-Marketing Balance
  • They’re Talking About Me! Joanna Penn and Dave Chesson Talk Keywords
  • How to Interview a Book Publicist Before You Sign an Agreement
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – September 2018
  • Meet the Super Fan … the Secret Sauce Authors Want
  • The Best Free Media Contacts Tool You Probably Aren’t Using
  • How to Create Merchandise for Books
  • How to Recycle, Repurpose and Promote Your Publicity
  • Authors: Invest in Swag to Sell or Give Away
  • 22 Tips for Breaking Bread with Journalists
  • SEO for Authors – Part 2
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – June 2018
  • Why Authors Should Be Speaking on Their Books … Their Expertise
  • SEO for Authors – Part 1
  • Are Free Promotions Still Worth It?
  • How to Become an Author Expert and Strut Your Stuff
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – May 2018
  • The Glory of Postcards
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – April 2018
  • 15 Reasons Why Your Book Isn’t Selling
  • 9 Types of Pitches to Use When Promoting Your Book
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – February 2018
  • Is There a Writing Mulligan in Your Midst?
  • Submit Your Book to Holiday Gift Guides
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – January 2018
  • Trapped in the Fire and Fury of the World’s Greatest Book Launch
  • How to Use Freelance Journalists in a Book Publicity Campaign
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – December 2017
  • 9 Tips for Your Website Due Diligence Starting NOW!
  • Top 10 Ways Your Website Leaves Readers, and Leads, in the Dust
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – November 2017
  • Are You a Swan? How to Overcome Book Marketing Overwhelm
  • 3 Essential Questions for Every Author
  • Book Reviews for Self-Published Authors: A Primer
  • 3 Ways to Get Publicity For Your Book
  • How to Write a Sassy, Snarky, Sizzling Author Resource Box
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – October 2017
  • Tie into Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall for Timely Book Hooks
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – August 2017
  • 4 Social Media Productivity Tips for Authors
  • Discoverability: Go Wide
  • Use a Sex Angle to Flirt with the Media for Book Publicity
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – July 2017
  • Thursday: Meet Dave Chilton, Master Publisher and Book Marketer
  • World’s Shortest Book Marketing Plan
  • Do You Have a Platform?
  • Use Cheat Sheets & Checklists to Entice, Engage Readers
  • What’s in Your Tagline?
  • It Takes a Village to Launch a Book
  • New to Book Publicity? Go Local First
  • Sell Your Books at Book Festivals and Craft Fairs
  • Amazon Ads for Indie Authors
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – April 2017
  • Your Media Book Pitch Can Open 1,000 Doors!
  • Be the Gateway: The Dan Blank Interview
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – March 2017
  • Dress Up Your Author Media Kit with “5 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Me”
  • Top 15 Tips for Webinar Wannabes
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – February 2017
  • Have You Created Your Sell Sheet?
  • The Pro Bono Marketing Staff Every Self-Published Author Has at Their Fingertips
  • Book Promotion: Do This, Not That – December 2016
  • The Most Important 15 Seconds in the Life of Your Book
  • Is Your Plan For Success “I Just Want to Write My Books”?
  • Authors: Do You Have the Perfect Pitch?
  • Free Book Promotions: Are They Worth It?
  • Publicity for Authors: My Interview with Dana Kaye
  • NetGalley Book Review Program: A Case Study
  • Brexit: Twilight of the Experts?
  • Anatomy of the Bonus: Checklists, Cheatsheets, Worksheets, and More
  • An Interview with Fauzia Burke, Author of Online Marketing for Busy Authors
  • Book Launches, High Anxiety, and a Free Webinar on Thursday
  • Eleven Ways to Get Better Book Reviews for Your Novel
  • Authors and Internet Marketing + Links
  • New: The Book Launch Toolkit, A Boon for Self-Published Authors
  • How to Grow Your Audience & Sell More Books with an Email Newsletter: Free Webinar with Dan Blank
  • The Biggest Business Mistake I Ever Made
  • 3 Ways For Self-Publishers to Break Into the Public Library Market
  • Quick Book Marketing Tips for Fiction and Nonfiction Authors
  • What Every Indie Author Needs to Know About Their Book’s Landing Page
  • Webinar: The Indie Author’s Guide to Creating a Killer Media Kit
  • The Mindset of Successful Self-Publishers
  • Why Building an Email List is Essential for Authors
  • 7 Top eBook Blog Tour Sites
  • How an Email List Can Foster Reader Engagement
  • How to Build an Awesome and Relevant Twitter Following in 6 Minutes a Day
  • Why Your Book Pitch Matters (Even If You’re Self-Published)
  • Can Fonts Make or Break Your Author Branding?
  • What J.K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith Can Teach Us About Author Platform
  • 12 Tips for Successful Book Launch Parties
  • #indiechat Book Launch: An Evening in Tweets
  • 3 Ways Google Analytics Helps You Engage With Your Readers
  • Planning Your Book Launch, an IBPA Webinar
  • Do You Write Memoir or Self-Help? Life at the Inflection Point
  • Authors Unplugged: Smart Book Marketing Includes Going Offline
  • Google+ Communities Create New Networks for Authors and Publishers
  • This Week in the Blogs, December 16 – 22, 2012
  • How to Embed a Twitter Tweet Into Your Blog Post
  • This Week in the Blogs, November 11 – 17, 2012
  • Top 5 Reasons Nonfiction Authors Should Be Speakers, Too
  • Authors, Gather Your Tribe on Twitter
  • Social Media Got You Down? New Webinar Can Help
  • Quick Tips for Contests & Giveaways
  • The Only 2 Things Authors Ought to be Doing
  • Twitter for the Absolutely Terrified Newbie Author
  • Indie Book Publishers: How Do You Use Your Website?
  • The Biggest Secret of Book Marketing Success
  • The Hub and Outpost Method of Social Media Marketing
  • How to Find Out What Readers Want
  • Should Authors Pay for Book Reviews?
  • Authors: It’s All About Book Marketing
  • “What’s Up With Self-Publishing?” Program in San Francisco Tomorrow
  • Video: Bookstore Distribution
  • Video: The Book Marketing Continuum
  • Yo, Author, You Spamming Me?? Cut it Out!
  • 2012 Book Sales Strong for Both Print and eBooks
  • Finding People to Read, Review and Recommend Your Book
  • Answers to Book Discount Questions
  • 12 Steps to Blog Tour Success
  • Video: John Kremer on Book Marketing in 2012
  • How to Get Testimonials for Your Self-Published Book
  • Author Blogging 101: Video Interview Tools & Tips
  • Twitter: Top 5 Ways to Find Your Tribe
  • Author Outreach from CreateSpace: Pitch 2.0
  • The Case of the $0.49 Print Book
  • Google+: Do Writers Need It?
  • 30 Book Awards for Self-Published Authors
  • Should Authors be Salespeople?
  • Your Author Platform: It's Not About You!
  • 6 Meta Tips for Book Marketing Success
  • Top 8 Tactics to Power Your Online Book Launch
  • Niche Publishing and the Power of the Few
  • What is a Writer's MVP?
  • Basics of Book Marketing for the Beginning Self-Publisher, Part 3
  • Basics of Book Marketing for the Beginning Self-Publisher, Part 2
  • Basics of Book Marketing for the Beginning Self-Publisher, Part 1
  • Cory Doctorow and the Reality of Bookselling
  • What Self-Publishers Can Learn From Restaurant Impossible
  • 6 Simple SEO Tips for Authors
  • 9 Free Twitter Stats Analytics Services
  • Self-Publishing, Yes and No
  • BAIPA July 2011: Mastering Social Media for Authors with Cynthia Sue Larson
  • Metadata for Self-Publishers, Part 1
  • 9 Ways to Market Your Book With No Money
  • Twenty-Five Ways for Writers to Take Action
  • What Niche Marketers Can Learn from Rachel Maddow
  • Author Blogging: Questions and Answers via @BookBuzzr
  • 12 Easy Steps to The Making of a Book Trailer
  • Your 10 Step Plan for Becoming a Twitter Star
  • Book Marketing: Have You Tried a Sample Interview?
  • Find Your Avatar: the Secret to Copy that Connects With Readers, Part 2
  • Find Your Avatar: the Secret to Copy that Connects With Readers
  • The Learning Sequence and Why It Matters to Nonfiction Authors
  • Your Book Launch: Soft or Hard?
  • A Self-Publisher's Companion Now Available in Print and e-Book Formats
  • A Self-Publisher's Journey: Levi Montgomery
  • Bookstore Blues, Or You Better Learn Your Keywords, Friend
  • Book Marketing: Your Online Press Kit
  • Author Blogging: Guest Posting and an Invitation
  • Book Launch Media Kit—Using Your Testimonials
  • How to Write a Press Release—A Mini-Tutorial
  • Competition
  • How I’m Going to Book my Blog—Getting Testimonials
  • Metadata for the Tweeps: Twitter Hashtags
  • Keyword Fun with Google's Wonder Wheel
  • Positioning Yourself as an Expert Author
  • Pitchapalooza Comes to Book Passage in Corte Madera, California
  • How Self-Publishing Changes the Bond Between Readers and Writers
  • Let Shoppers Sample Your Book on Amazon
  • How Nonfiction Authors Can Profit With E-Learning
  • Guest Post: My Book Launch
  • Self-Published Books: What Does it Take to Really “Make It”?
  • 17 Ways for Writers to Publish Their Content
  • 6 Tips for Getting Your Book onto Bookstore Shelves
  • 1000 Words
  • Welcome to Self-Publishing: The Carnival of the Indies
  • Self-Publishers Start Here: Marketing Your Book
  • Seven Things to Look For In a Virtual Author Assistant
  • Author Branding: The You That Is Everywhere
  • Attention Authors: Your Site Needs Help!
  • How Authors Can Use Article Marketing: Ezinearticles.com Metrics
  • 10 Steps for Authors Who Want to Get Started on Twitter
  • Top 5 Reasons Authors Shouldn’t Blog Their Books
  • How Authors Can Use Article Marketing: Linking Strategies
  • What Does Distribution Really Mean for Self-Publishers?
  • 2 Things All Content Creators Can Do
  • How Authors Can Sell More Books with Article Marketing: Sourcing Content
  • How Self-Publishers Can Sell More Books with Article Marketing, Part 2
  • Self-Publishing Basics: Understanding Book Discounts
  • How Self-Publishers Can Sell More Books with Article Marketing, Part 1
  • How To Write Book Titles for People & Robots
  • Chris Finlan—From Page One to ‘Take One’ in Less than a Year
  • Independence in The Era of the Aggregators
  • Authors Are Blogging, Are You?
  • This Week in the Blogs, May 9 – 15, 2010
  • Author Platform: New Free Copywriting Resource from Brian Clark
  • Scribe: Supercharge Your Search Engine-Oriented Writing
  • How Apple’s App Store is Changing Bookselling
  • Indie Bookstores & Indie Publishers—On The Same Page?
  • How to Market Your Self-Published Book—A Plan by Bill Quain
  • How Nonfiction Self-Publishers Can Become Keyword Naturals
  • Getting Started with Scribd.com
  • Why Self-Publishing Is a Long-Tail Business
  • Author Platform: What Are You Waiting For?
  • Annual Get Published! Workshop Coming March 13
  • The New Marketing: Carol White at BAIPA
  • Amazon and Macmillan In Dispute over E-Books: Was It Something Apple’s iPad Said?
  • 10 Ways Authors Can Find More Blog Readers
  • How I Sold 10,000 Copies of My Self-Published Book
  • 15 Questions, and Why Everything is a Niche: At a Local Indie Publishing Group Meeting
  • 6 Ways to Jump-Start Your Self-Publishing Career
  • Is It Time to Kill “Jerry”?
  • The New Self-Publisher
  • What Hasn’t Changed in Self-Publishing
  • Self-Publishing Review New Guest Post
  • How To Use Twitter in 5 Minutes for Small and Independent Publishers

• Podcasts

  • Podcast: Susan Daffron and James Byrd, Self-Publisher's Online Conference
  • Self-Publishing: Tutorials from the Trenches

• Project Focus

  • Meeting the Muse—Flex Your Creativity Exercises
  • Book Construction Blueprint, Creativity, WriteWell Writer’s Journals–An Update

• Reports

• Reviews

  • Barnes and Noble Press Review (2021 Guide)
  • The Book Patch Review – Is The Book Patch Legit?
  • Review: Book Design Made Simple by Fiona Raven & Glenna Collett
  • Call for Reviewers
  • New Books From Dan Blank and Josh Hanagarne
  • Seth Godin’s Poke the Box, Doubt, and the Will to Publish
  • Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt Into Fuel for Brilliance by Jonathan Fields
  • OmmWriter Dana: My Second-Favorite Writing Program of All Time
  • Low-tech
  • Review: #Book Title Tweet by Roger C. Parker
  • Writer For iPad by Oliver Reichenstein & Information Architects
  • Self-Publishing Book Review: Publishize! by Susan Daffron
  • When Is a Book Review Not a Book Review?
  • A Look at the Nook: No, It’s Not a Book!

• Samples

• Self Publishing Basics

  • Monday Mailbag: ISBN, Copyright and More
  • Saturday Q & A With the Book Designer 01
  • 8 Milestones to Self-Publishing Success

• Self-Publishing

  • Sample Copyright Pages [Two Free Templates for Your Book]
  • Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #123
  • This Week in the Blogs, December 10 – 16, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, December 3 – 9, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, November 26 – December 2, 2020
  • Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #122
  • This Week in the Blogs, November 12 – 18, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, November 5 – 11, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, October 29 – November 4, 2020
  • Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #121
  • This Week in the Blogs, October 15 – 21, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, October 8 – 14, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, October 1 – 7, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, September 24 – 30, 2020
  • Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #120
  • This Week in the Blogs, September 10 – 16, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, September 3 – 9, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, August 27 – September 2, 2020
  • Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #119
  • This Week in the Blogs, August 13 – 19, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, August 6 – 12, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, July 30 – August 5, 2020
  • Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #118
  • This Week in the Blogs, July 17 – 22, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, July 10 – 16, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, July 3 – 9, 2020
  • Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #117
  • This Week in the Blogs, June 12 – 18, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, June 6 – 12, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, May 29 – June 4, 2020
  • Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #116
  • This Week in the Blogs, May 15 – 21, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, May 8 – 14, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, May 1 – 7, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, April 24 – 30, 2020
  • Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #115
  • This Week in the Blogs, April 3 – 9, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, March 27 – April 2, 2020
  • Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #114
  • This Week in the Blogs, March 13 – 19, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, March 6 – 12, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, February 29 – March 5, 2020
  • Have You Tried Jucilating?
  • How Much Does Self-Publishing Cost? (11 Cost Types)
  • This Week in the Blogs, February 21 – 27, 2020
  • Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #113
  • This Week in the Blogs, February 7 – 13, 2020
  • What Indie Authors Need To Know Before Translating Books
  • This Week in the Blogs, February 1 – 6, 2020
  • This Week in the Blogs, January 24 – 30, 2020
  • 2020 Publishing Vision Forward
  • Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #112
  • This Week in the Blogs, January 10 – 16, 2020
  • Thoughts on Turning 10
  • This Week in the Blogs, January 3 – 9, 2020
  • 10 Top Posts from The Book Designer for 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, December 27, 2019 – January 2, 2020
  • Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #111
  • It’s Come to Book Chat Time …
  • This Week in the Blogs, December 6 – 12, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, November 29 – December 5, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, November 22 – 28, 2019
  • Self-Publishing: The Carnival of the Indies Issue #110
  • This Week in the Blogs, November 8 – 14, 2019
  • Publishing Your Ebook Is Changing on Smashwords
  • This Week in the Blogs, November 1 – 7, 2019
  • I Can Get It for You Wholesale — Pricing Your Book
  • This Week in the Blogs, October 25 – 31, 2019
  • Self-Publishing: The Carnival of the Indies Issue #109
  • This Week in the Blogs, October 11 – 17, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, October 4 – 10, 2019
  • How to Use Ingramspark Self-Publishing
  • This Week in the Blogs, September 27 – October 3, 2019
  • Self-Publishing: The Carnival of the Indies Issue #108
  • This Week in the Blogs, September 13 – 19, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, September 7 – 12, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, August 31 – September 6, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, August 24 – 30, 2019
  • Self-Publishing: The Carnival of the Indies Issue #107
  • This Week in the Blogs, August 10 – 16, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, August 3 – 9, 2019
  • The Myth of Author Multitasking
  • This Week in the Blogs, July 27 – August 2, 2019
  • Self-Publishing: The Carnival of the Indies Issue #106
  • This Week in the Blogs, July 13 – 19, 2019
  • 5 Tips for Popular Posts on Your Author Blog
  • This Week in the Blogs, July 6 – 12, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, June 29 – July 5, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, June 22 – 28, 2019
  • Traditional Publishing vs Self-Publishing: A 2020 Vision
  • Self-Publishing: The Carnival of the Indies Issue #105
  • This Week in the Blogs, June 8 – 14, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, June 1 – 7, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, May 25 – 31, 2019
  • Self-Publishing: The Carnival of the Indies Issue #104
  • This Week in the Blogs, May 11 – 17, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, May 4 – 10, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, April 27 – May 3, 2019
  • Self-Publishing: The Carnival of the Indies Issue #103
  • This Week in the Blogs, April 13 – 19, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, April 6 – 12, 2019
  • Book Publishing: Are You Keeping Up? – Part 2
  • Why Print Is the Future (and Always Was) for Some Books
  • This Week in the Blogs, March 30 – April 5, 2019
  • Self-Publishing: The Carnival of the Indies Issue #102
  • This Week in the Blogs, March 16 – 22, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, March 9 – 15, 2019
  • Book Publishing: Are You Keeping Up? – Part 1
  • This Week in the Blogs, March 2 – 8, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, February 23 – March 1, 2019
  • Self-Publishing: The Carnival of the Indies Issue #101
  • This Week in the Blogs, February 9 – 15, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, February 2 – 9, 2019
  • Could You Make (And Even Sell) Your Own Photos?
  • Wow! 100 Issues of Self-Publishing: The Carnival of the Indies
  • This Week in the Blogs, January 26 – February 1, 2019
  • Self-Publishing: The Carnival of the Indies Issue #100
  • This Week in the Blogs, January 12 – 18, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, January 5 – 11, 2019
  • This Week in the Blogs, December 29, 2018 – January 4, 2019
  • Self-Publishing: The Carnival of the Indies Issue #99
  • This Week in the Blogs, December 8 – 14, 2018
  • This Week in the Blogs, December 1 – 7, 2018
  • This Week in the Blogs, November 24 – 30, 2018
  • Self-Publishing: The Carnival of the Indies Issue #98
  • This Week in the Blogs, November 10 – 16, 2018
  • Hackers Are Targeting Createspace Author Accounts
  • This Week in the Blogs, November 3 – 9, 2018
  • This Week in the Blogs, October 27 – November 2, 2018
  • Self-Publishing: The Carnival of the Indies Issue #97
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