I want to say a few things about print books for indie authors, because the subject keeps coming up on social media. In the first place, a lot of people seem irrationally attached to the print medium. Yes, there are bookshops, and yes, this is probably the most visible way…
Here is a general news post with what I’ve been doing recently. I was reminded this week by our local newspaper that I took part in a random email email survey where I said that I wasn’t planning on taking part in any Black Friday sales. Well, guess what? I…
Authors ask: when is it okay to self promote? Nope, wrong question. Step back and consider why it is necessary to ask this question. Is it because writers are insecure, and we are people-pleasers, and don’t want to upset anyone? And because we don’t want to upset anyone, we are…
I’m going to talk about book marketing without paid ads. I’ll be showing that it both is and isn’t the paradise you imagined. People are surprised to hear that I haven’t paid for ads for years. They have heard that is a pay to play market, and in certain sections…
During my photography project, I went to Centennial Park. This is a beautiful stretch of green surrounded by suburbs, the Cricket Ground, the former showgrounds, a golf course and Randwick racecourse. People ride horses around the park. There is no one in the morning before the gates open. You have…
This is a post about where to sell your books for beginning selfpublished writers. As I said in an earlier post, when you’ve been doing this for awhile, you tend to forget that many new people enter the scene all the time, and they don’t always know, or have easy…
Over the past year selling direct to readers on your own website has become popular. It used to be that people would tell you that it was hard, or it was hard to get people to buy, but this is no longer so. So I thought I do a little…
Clovelly beach was one of my favourite spots during the years that I undertook my weekly early morning photography trips. The bay is long and narrow, which tall headlands on both sides. The surf lifesaving club is on the southern side, where there is also a concrete platform. The car…
Is self-publishing pay to play these days? When looking at the evidence, it certainly seems so. If you visit any page on Amazon, it’s chockers full of ads. They seem almost mandatory to sell on the platform. Some people even encourage defensive ads, where you run ads on your own…
Whale Mail is available on my web store now! It’s available in all formats: ebook, audio, paperback and hardcover. The print versions are the special illustrated edition that will not be available anywhere else. If you’re looking to get it on retailers, it will go live there on 8 December….
