How to Calculate Read-Through (and why it matters!)
Recently, I tried a free book giveaway through Amazon’s KDP Select service, giving the first volume in a series away for the course of a…
Special Reports
How to Make More Profits From Existing Books
Do you know what’s better than selling one book on Amazon and elsewhere across the web? Selling two books on Amazon and elsewhere across the…
Starting Strong: 15 Tips For Hooking Readers With Your First Line
Here’s the truth about your book. You can have done all the keyword research, entry optimization, street team building, and cover design in the world…but…
Your Author Business Card Guide
You should have a business card. Let me say that again. You should have a business card. It’s an essential tool for the professional writer,…
How to Build and Develop A Unique Author Brand
Want to know a secret? It’s a secret about half the authors we work with consider good news, and makes the other half panic. Ready?…
Low-Word Count Content That Really Sells
We all know that authors with more titles on Amazon do better because books cross-pollinate, and because a large catalog gives you more opportunities for…
What Authors Are Doing to Sell More Books During the Quarantine
If you’ve wired into the general publishing world, you’ve probably heard about the double-edged sword that coronavirus quarantines mean for writers and readers worldwide. On…
10 Reasons You Should Write Your Book This Year
Legendary organization and personal Effectiveness Master David Allen recommends a tool called the someday maybe file. That’s a place where you write down ideas of…
The Ultimate Guide to Outlining Your Book
Watching a book is a lot like taking a road trip. You start at point A, have several adventures, cover some miles, sometimes have trouble…
The Anatomy of a Book
The Anatomy of a Book Even simple books consist of a sometimes intimidating set of moving parts. To move from aspiring author to published author,…
Apex Authors Guide to Optimizing Kindle Listing Page Conversions
“Conversions” is marketer speak for “sales”. We’re not hard-core marketing flacks, but as indie authors we use that word for one important reason. You don’t…
6 Free Book Cover Makers for Independent Authors
Those lucky enough to be traditionally published authors have a professional cover design team with the top-of-the-line software and super-powerful equipment. They don’t have to…
End of content
End of content