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How To Package Your Book (The Happy Writer 9)

How To Package Your Book (The Happy Writer 9)

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…

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June 12, 2021 May 16, 2021self-publishing, The Happy Writer blurb, book covers, self-publishing

Should I sell audiobooks (The Happy Writer 2)

Should I sell audiobooks (The Happy Writer 2)

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…

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April 23, 2021 May 16, 2021self-publishing, The Happy Writer audio, self-publishing, selfpublishing

Introducing The Happy Writer

Introducing The Happy Writer

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…

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April 23, 2021 May 16, 2021self-publishing, The Happy Writer audio, self-publishing

Narrating Your Own Audiobook

Narrating Your Own Audiobook

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…

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January 13, 2021 May 16, 2021audio books, self-publishing audio books, Narration, self-publishing

Banned from Amazon

Banned from Amazon

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…

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December 30, 2020 May 17, 2021self-publishing Amazon

Should I sell audiobooks?

Should I sell audiobooks?

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…

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December 26, 2020 December 25, 2020audio books, self-publishing audio books, self-publishing

How to sell books without ads

How to sell books without ads

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…

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December 18, 2020 May 17, 2021marketing, self-publishing advertising costs, publishing

Advertising your book – how much to spend

Advertising your book – how much to spend

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….

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October 13, 2019 May 17, 2021marketing, self-publishing advertising costs, marketing

The three Ps of selfpublishing

The three Ps of selfpublishing

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…

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September 21, 2019 May 16, 2021marketing, self-publishing self-publishing, writing career

The State of Indie Publishing 2019

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…

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September 6, 2019 November 6, 2019self-publishing self-publishing
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