Can I pay for someone to do my advertising for me? The Happy Writer episode 18. This is one of the questions that gets asked the most often in writer groups. A new writer have discovered they don’t like marketing and is willing to throw money at the marketing problem…
Preorders The Happy Writer episode 16. When should you do a preorder and how long for? What is the point of preorders? The Happy Writer discusses all this and more. Listen to this episode on Bookfunnel or Youtube. Follow the series on Youtube.
Reviving a dead series The Happy Writer episode 15. If you have published a book or two in a series, stopped writing for a while, or never finished the series for whatever reason, this episode is for you! The Happy Writer discusses the things you need to consider before you…
When and why to go wide? The Happy Writer episode 14. The Happy Writer goes into going wide, distributing your books to all channels. If you’ve always been exclusive to Amazon, this involves new tactics. You will find that many of your tried and tested methods don’t work anymore, or…
Authors And Reviews The Happy Writer episode 12 In this episode of The Happy Writer, we look at the fraught relationship many authors have with their reviews. Many of you who know me will know that I tell authors not to look at them, because you can’t change them, you…
Selling Books From Your Website The Happy Writer episode 11 This episode of The Happy Writer talks about selling books from your website: why and how to do it. As selling books becomes more competitive and retail venues increasingly become pay to play, it becomes important to siphon your most…
Keeping Up With Book Admin The Happy Writer episode 10 This episode of The Happy Writer talks about book admin: maintaining front matter, back matter as well as retailer links and other book information across a number of retailers. It deals with why it’s important to keep everything up-to-date, and…
How To Package Your Book The Happy Writer episode 9 In this episode, The Happy Writer looks at how to package your book. When talking about book packaging, most people consider only the cover, blurb and Look Inside, but the title also plays a huge role. The title will appear…
Should I sell audiobooks? The Happy Writer episode 2 The Happy Writer looks at the pros and cons of audiobooks for the selfpublished writer for those who haven’t yet gone down this path. They’re expensive to produce, the royalty percentage is much smaller than for other formats, but in many…
The Happy Writer: a series of audio blog posts I started a thing. A little while ago, when I wrote about audiobooks, it seemed kinda funny to me that the post itself was not in audio, because certainly, that’s the best medium to talk about audio, right? I’ve been doing…
