Indie Writer Unboxed is book 4 in the The Three-Year, No-bestseller Plan For Making A Living From Your Fiction series So. You’ve self-published. You’ve written some books, but they’re not selling as well as you hoped. Or maybe you sold well in the beginning but your sales have slipped and…
Going Wide Unboxed is book 3 in the The Three-Year, No-bestseller Plan For Making A Living From Your Fiction series A companion guide to Self-publishing Unboxed and Mailing Lists Unboxed, for those who want to start selling on all ebook platforms. In this book, you will learn: –The major non-Amazon…
Mailing Lists Unboxed is book 2 in the The Three-Year, No-bestseller Plan For Making A Living From Your Fiction series Self-published authors are coming to realise that a stable career is about a backlist of titles and keeping that backlist selling. But how do you do this? Invariably, advice given…
Self-publishing Unboxed is book 1 in the The Three-Year, No-bestseller Plan For Making A Living From Your Fiction series You intend to self-publish or have published a book or two. You’re not selling very well and wonder why not. You feel you should be doing something, but the thought of…
Here are my earnings from self-publishing for this year. I know that some people have been waiting for this, but I needed to wait for all the spreadsheets to come in before I could do my report. It’s getting to that scary territory, where I have a bit of a…
Another year has gone past and it’s time for another income report. After the previous report, I got a few “Oh, is that all?” reactions. Well, yes, that’s all. I’m reporting the coalface of self-publishing. You know that author who shot to fame with just one book out and retired…
Another year has gone by. I did one of these posts last year, and thought it would be fun to update it. Why? Several reasons: Not all self-publishers are Hugh Howey or Bella Andre or any of the other names that you’ll find in the top of various genres. In…
Inspired by others on the web who have done so, I’m going to do a numbers post. Mainly for reference, but also to show people what the income of a no-name self-publishing writer with moderate success looks like. Just to give some datapoints other than the millions reportedly made by…
If you’ve followed me around for a bit, either here or in real life, you will know that I’m not in favour of the blanket “get your book edited” advice that’s being given to many-a beginning writer who is thinking about self-publishing. Make no mistake. I think editors do great…
Looking at the future in an author’s career, the most important thing you can do is to weatherproof your sales. Weatherproofing your sales is: Diversification Taking control of your own audience Building an innate level of sales that does not rely on the vagaries of retail site algorithms In the…
