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…
Should I sell audiobooks? There is a lot of talk about the rise in audiobooks. Some articles show that the sales of audiobooks are surging. Many of these reports need to be taken with a grain of salt, because a number of the sales figures are based on trade published…
Do you wonder how to sell books without ads? Have you just joined the selfpublishing community? Have you been at it for a while? The first question people ask is: what about marketing? The refrain goes that you have to hand over cash to advertising sites because otherwise you won’t…
How much should you spend on advertising your book? This question gets asked a lot, especially by beginning writers. They’ve heard that it is probably a good idea to advertise your book, and they like to be given some kind of clear guidelines as to how much they should spend….
If you focus on the three Ps of selfpublishing you increase the likelihood of success. In the world of selfpublishing, it’s easy to lose track of what to do and what is a waste of time. You can fill up your entire day with busy work, but which things are…
Here is a view from the trenches about the state of indie publishing in 2019. Recently, there was much ado about this post by Russell Blake which made the point, in short, you must hand over wads of cash to the various advertisers (mainly Amazon Advertising) or die. I think…
