Join the SkipJack Online School for courses as inexpensive as the free “5 Simple Tips to Sell a Ton of Books” to $5 individual classes or $50 for the whole writing, publishing, and marketing bundle. Selections below. Taught by the best-selling, Silver Falchion-winning, What Kind of Loser Indie Publishes-writing mystery author, Pamela Fagan Hutchins. Click images […]
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Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Indie Publishing with Pamela Fagan Hutchins
If you follow this blog, you know I’m a big fan of Kobo, for their international presence, their forward-mindedness with indie authors, and the human touch to their service. You can read about those things HERE and HERE. I am also blessed to have spent time with Christine Munroe with Kobo Writing Life. She presented at the […]
Pros and Cons of Pronoun
Lately, indie authors have been raving about Pronoun, and with good reason. You can publish your e-books on their Macmillan platform, absolutely free, and get them aggregated to the major e-book retailers, including Amazon Kindle, Apple, Barnes and Noble Nook, Kobo, and Google Play. They have some slick features and their customer service is […]
End of Book Excerpts: Yea or Nay?
One piece of advice I’ve always received is to include excerpts from my other books at the end of each of my e-books to make it possible (and easy) for readers who wish to download any of others to do so. This is a post in which I’ll show and tell what I’ve down, explain how it’s worked, and […]
Maximizing Author Revenue Stream With International Ebook Subscriber Sites
Unless you’re living under a rock, you are, as an author, familiar with Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited. It’s a monthly subscription service of ebooks. The arrotontent of KU is comprised of the books for which an author opts in and gives Kindle/Amazon exclusive rights to sales of that ebook. Subscribers can choose to read as many of the books within KU as […]
Maximizing Author Revenue With Online Offerings
In the last year, SkipJack has broadened its scope to offer live webinars and online training. It took us about six months to put our first twenty classes together, fitting this new initiative into our normal operations. During that time of “soft launch”—other than investment of sweat equity/time—we’ve managed to break even on the project, leading […]
SkipJack’s Vision: Suspense Laced With Faith, Whatever That Faith May Be
Recently our author Pamela Fagan Hutchins received this e-mail: I enjoyed the books I read in this series (5,6,7) but was somewhat perplexed by some of the characters in the book, Emily’s character in particular. I was struggling with the concept of church going, prayers to God for direction, protection, etc. while still having a […]
SkipJack is Alaska-bound
SkipJack Publishing is off to Alaska this week, where Pamela Fagan Hutchins is one of four anchor presenters at the Alaska Writers Guild Annual Conference in Anchorage. She’ll conduct a half-day workshop on publishing strategy called “Let’s Talk (Publishing) Money” as well as participate in a panel and share knowledge in a “Let’s Talk Readers” breakout session. […]
Next SkipJack Retreat Announcement!
October 7-9, 2016 “Just Do It” Writers Retreat (Focus: Finishing, Revising, and Doing It Again) Join award-winning, best-selling author Pamela Fagan Hutchins in the Texas Hill Country—only 1.5 hours from Houston and Austin—for a two-day weekend writer’s retreat. “A breakthrough weekend for me.” David Welling “I learned an enormous amount of useful information in a short […]
Holy Wear-Me-Out Workshop versus Webcasts
There are some things as an author I always say yes to. Speaking about publishing and promotion to other writers is one of them. But man is it exhausting work! Plus sometimes I’ll randomly start doing or saying something part way through, something unplanned, that later makes me cringed. That’s me in the picture above, […]