As an author, a website is an essential part of your brand. When readers buy your book, they need somewhere to go to find you, and while social media platforms have their place, an author website is your home. Below we’ll talk about the importance of having an...
The old trope of the “starving artist” has a hint of truth to it. Many authors and other artists don’t make huge amounts of money with their artistic work. So that begs the question, how do you market a book with no money? After all, if you can get book sales coming...
What’s the one question authors ask me most frequently? “How long do I have to market my book?” I never deviate from this answer: “Only for as long as you want to sell it.” Every author hates hearing that. By the time most get around to asking it, usually a few weeks...
If you’ve been writing for any length of time, you’ve probably encountered the dreaded writer’s block. While there are countless tips out there that claim to help you get over writer’s block, there’s one tried-and-true technique I’ve used to get past my own writer’s...
Standing out as a newly self-published author can be challenging even for the most gifted writers. How do you find your first readers? How do find enough of those readers to actually make your self-publishing career financially viable? It seems like if you ask ten...