If you’ve read this blog a long time, you know I view aggregation as a necessary evil. I use it to get my books onto Nook pre-order and free. Others prefer it to save the time and labor it takes to manage their literary assets on 6-7 sales sites, although no aggregator eliminates the need (or strategic […]
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How Bookbub and Permafree Changed My Life Last Week
So if you follow this blog, you know a) I’m a huge proponent of Bookbub and b) I’ve been lucky enough to have them feature my books three times, the third being Friday June 27. I wrote about the first two times HERE and HERE. They were great. This third time literally is a game […]
How to Sell a Ton of Books with BookBub: A Tale of Two Authors
This post is a follow-up to Holy Crapoly: You’re Going to Want to Hear This! Recently two Amazon bestselling authors set out to promote their second novels. A lot had changed in the world of ebook promotion since each of their debuts, however. When Rodney Walther first released Broken Laces, he had great success with […]
Holy Crapoly! You’re Going to Want to Hear About This.
Well, give us 10 days to collect all the data and we’ll have quite an indie publishing story to share with you. What, you ask? What story? What happened? Well, I finally, after six applications and five rejections, got a BookBub day. I got it for the book I wanted, too: Saving Grace, the lead […]
Interesting, and not in a good way: sales crash post KDP Select.
The latest tale in the saga of our indie publishing is a tragedy, not a triumph. We plan to turn it around, and you’ll get a ring side seat, but here’s the scoop for now. Some of you may recall that we had a tremendous run on KDP Select with Saving Grace, first as a free […]
You can help an indie author.
Do you love indie authors (or an indie author)? SkipJack loves indie authors. In fact, we love them so much, we publish them. Which begs the question of whether they’re really indie anymore once we do that, so we’ll answer it. Yes, yes they are. We’re an indie author collaborative, and our authors have our […]
Ebook sales outlets: where to upload, how, and why.
For most of you embarking on indie publishing, the biggest return on investment for you in ebook sales will be to upload your book onto Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing. While their market share is shrinking, they still hold over 60% of it. And be sure you do the uploading yourself, not through a “service.” It’s super easy, […]
Formatting Your Indie Published Book
By Pamela Fagan Hutchins How you format depends on where and how you plan to publish. Print formatting: Are you going to print your books? I chose to do so, and I found the best deal with Create Space (http://createspace.com), at least the best deal that met my goals. I wanted the lowest cost for small […]