Category: Career

Burning Issues . . . ?

Post author By Pamela
Post date February 16, 2016
Categories In Art, Career, Covers, Editing, Formatting, Inspirational, Promotion, Sales, Strategy, Writing
4 Comments on Burning Issues . . . ?

As I sit down to write this morning, I realize that having five baby goats born in the last few days on our place—and one motherless—is going to have to take precedence. Life is like that. Burning issues to be addressed, and sometimes they aren’t the ones we’d planned for. What we thought was burning […]

Tis’ the Season to “Write Your Own Story”. Merry Christmas !

Post author By Pamela
Post date December 23, 2015
Categories In Career, Inspirational, Promotion, Writing
21 Comments on Tis’ the Season to “Write Your Own Story”. Merry Christmas !

Merry Christmas from SkipJack Publishing. The following is a repost from Pamela Fagan Hutchins on putting yourself out there. It’s timely and really, it’s not just about writing; it’s abo ut living your best life. LOVE your life, every line of it. Write your own Story this holiday season. Practice makes perfect, get a […]

Kindle Unlimited and KENP: Worth the Cost?

Post author By Pamela
Post date December 9, 2015
Categories In Career, Sales, Strategy
7 Comments on Kindle Unlimited and KENP: Worth the Cost?

This is a guest blog post written by Blake O’Connor, author of award-winning novels including ‘Unspoken Bond’, a former top100 Amazon Kindle book. She’s writing today about the decline in Amazon’s KENP royalty. Pamela, thank you for inviting me to write a guest post for SkipJack’s blog. And a big congratulations on Heaven to […]

Gratefuls, From the SkipJack Perspective

Post author By Eric
Post date November 26, 2015
Categories In Career, Inspirational
3 Comments on Gratefuls, From the SkipJack Perspective

It’s that wonderful time of year when many of us pause and think about all that is good in our lives and the things we are grateful for. From the perspective of our publishing company (and no doubt straying a bit to the personal side), these are some things we are grateful for. Our authors. They […]

SkipJack Announces Upcoming McKay Release

Post author By Eric
Post date November 1, 2015
Categories In Career

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 2016 SkipJack Publishing Announces Upcoming Release of Debut Author, Marcy McKay Texas – Award-winning author Marcy McKay and SkipJack Publishing announce the January 21, 2016, release of McKay’s literary suspense novel, Pennies from Burger Heaven (ISBN 978-1-939889-33-1). About Pennies from Burger Heaven: Eleven-year-old Copper Daniels is homeless and alone. She spends […]

Good Help’s Not Hard to Find

Post author By Pamela
Post date October 31, 2015
Categories In Career, Inspirational
6 Comments on Good Help’s Not Hard to Find

If one follow’s the lead of Harlan Coben (skilled and successful thriller writer), then an author should plow every cent of their revenues in their first five years of publication back into promotion, to build their brand and longevity. If I’m not mistaken (and tell me in the comments if I am), Harlan also did […]

Groundbreaking Indie Print News: The Big Gaping Questions Remain

Post author By Pamela
Post date September 21, 2015
Categories In Career, Promotion, Sales, Strategy
6 Comments on Groundbreaking Indie Print News: The Big Gaping Questions Remain

No matter how you approach it, Jamie McGuire’s new deal with WalMart is groundbreaking. Jamie left her sweetheart Atria deal to go indie—for happiness/control reasons, I hear—and parlayed the success of a (traditionally published) novel into a trilogy that has resulted in landing one of her indie books on WalMart’s shelves in select stores. A CreateSpace […]

Indie Publishing: 3 Chances to Work With Successful Indie Author Pamela Fagan Hutchins

Post author By Eric
Post date September 15, 2015
Categories In Art, Career, Covers, Editing, Formatting, Inspirational, Promotion, Sales, Strategy, Writing

1. Indiepalooza: 1 hour, plus conference 2. Indie Fest: 3-hour workshop 3. Indie Writers Retreat: two-day retreat

Indie Publishing Success Retreat for Writers

Post author By Eric
Post date September 8, 2015
Categories In Art, Career, Covers, Editing, Formatting, Inspirational, Promotion, Sales, Strategy, Writing
2 Comments on Indie Publishing Success Retreat for Writers

For reviews and more information as well as registration, visit http://pamelahutchins.com/speaking/writing-retreats/.

Defining Success: How 3 Authors Made Their Publishing Dreams Come True

Post author By Pamela
Post date January 16, 2015
Categories In Career

Check out this cool and informative interview on publicist Paula Margulies’ blog: Defining Success: How Three Authors Made Their Publishing Dreams Come True. In the meantime, want to snag a free copy of the fantastic audio production of Going for Kona? I’m giving them out like hotcakes, first come, first serve. All you have […]