Self publishing | Self publishing
Apr.29.2013
We first met Chris Baty about a decade ago, when Arielle agented his book No Plot, No Problem: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days. We watched as he built this strange, beautiful community of lunatics and dreamers who, every November, write a 50,000 word book in 30...
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Apr.08.2013
So, I think I broke my brain. I am currently working to fix it.
Over the past four months since I indie-pubbed my first novel, Leather to the Corinthians, I have been spending considerable energy using social media (read: all my free time) to market and promote the book. Prior to its release, I had...
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Dec.27.2012
Poets & Writers, Jan/Feb 2013
It’s a bitch trying to advise writers these days, and P&W knows it. Ten years ago it was only necessary to offer tips on good writing and something here and there to clue aspiring or emerging writers in on support systems, such as conferences, workshops,...
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Nov.19.2012
One of the challenges of being a self published writer, as I have might I have mentioned previously, is the marketing aspect of things. It can be a challenge, without a big budget and the right contacts, to get your book and your name out there. Social media has certainly helped, in...
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Oct.19.2012
Driving around Los Angeles the other day, I suddenly realized that I could make it easier for authors to implement the steps in my 3 TOP TIPS ebooks if I put all the tips together into one ebook.
Thanks to having the ability to convert my own ebooks after my business partner Yael K. Miller taught...
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Oct.19.2012
From the time I first decided I was going to write I knew I wanted to write a mystery, or mysteries, if my first book was received well. In my mind, my characters moved stealthily through my thoughts, like figures in a thick fog. Their stories, tragedies, and the ties that would bind...
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Oct.10.2012
Recently the term "target audience" came into my life, a term that, for me, had previously only been found in the now extinct text books of my Business Marketing degree program. I had been discussing publishing, specifically self-publishing, with an accomplished author that I know and she...
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Oct.05.2012
I love the time I spend writing. It is, even when the writing is a challenge, a joy in my life. I learn a great deal from writing so even the days that the words don't flow and frustration looms ominously, there are valuable lessons for me to learn that, at the end of the day, further...
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Oct.03.2012
Advice Received
Recently I had the pleasure of speaking with a woman whom, not only writes her own column for a local magazine, but also is a writer and publisher independent of her status at the magazine. We discussed many topics in regards to my novels and self publishing, especially the...
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Sep.15.2012
Self publishing is, as I have mentioned before, an adventure. With my first book, I blundered about blindingly, publishing on a wing and a prayer. Due to this fact, there were mistakes. Mistakes with editing, formatting, and even some technical mistakes within the book that I...
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