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…
Narrating your own audiobook? Yea or nay? As I have said previously, producing audiobooks is expensive. You may economise on it by finding a cheaper narrator, but it is still a fair chunk of money. If you have a large back list, especially one that is not breaking the bank…
Banned from Amazon. How to get banned from Amazon? It’s easy. Write a book that has a no-no word in the title. Or subtitle. Even if the word means exactly the opposite from what is insinuated. Or a word that smells like a swear word. Well, I received notice that…
