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Author: Eric
Happy Thanksgiving!
From us, to you: We are grateful for this opportunity to explore the brave new world of indie publishing today, and to share it with you. We’ll be back next week with more of our hard-won experience. Until then, Happy (American) Thanksgiving! Eric
Getting Your Baby on the Shelves of Bookstores
I love bookstores. I love the way they look, the way the smell,and their colors. Visiting a bookstore is like going to a library, but without the mean librarian. A lot of people believe bookstores are going the way of the dinosaurs, but I am not one of those people. You heard it from me, it […]
The gift that keeps on giving, to Amazon.
Just when you think you have the “system” figured out something comes along that makes you realize that you really don’t. Amazon has this nifty feature related to Kindle edition ebook purchases. There is a yellow button over on the right hand side of the screen that allows you to GIVE AS AS GIFT. As […]
I can promise you it wasn’t the casting couch.
Well. I’ve done TV before. TV is fun. TV is nothing to be afraid. TV is overblown. Yeah. All that applies until the TV interview is about YOU and one or your LITTLE DARLINGS. Whew! Check out this article and the TV interview that ran on the 6:00 p.m. news in Amarillo on September 10th, […]
Achieving Indie Book Visibility
Let’s start with the assumption that your goal is to sell books to the general public, if not you can skip this entry. It’s important to understand that there is no one thing that guarantees an avalanche of sales. It is our belief that it takes simultaneous effort in multiple arenas to get traction and […]
Socializing for Success in Indie Publishing
Love it or hate it, collectively all of the various forms of social media are a critical part of marketing. They are a way of connecting, not only with potential readers, but also with people who can be resources to help you meet your goals, as long as you remember that it is a two […]
Selling books: what doesn’t work.
Writing a great book with wonderful cover art and getting it on the “shelf,” virtual or pine, is not enough to make it sell. This reminds me of the boom in home-based internet businesses when the thought was that all you needed to do was create a website with a “buy” button and have some […]
Indie Publishing Your First Book
If you are indie-publishing your first book, one of the most important early decisions you will make is about your ultimate goal for your book and writing career. Don’t take this lightly. I mean really think about it, stay up all night, go to your special soul-searching-deciding-place, or whatever you do to make the important […]
You climb a mountain one step at a time.
A few years ago, my wife Pamela and I were faced with a whole lot of personal adversity. The list of problems was very long and included jobs, finances, and family issues. We also had a goal. A goal of getting to a place that to us represented peace, stability, and safety. We knew where we wanted […]