What should your readthrough be? The Happy Writer episode 21. This episode talks about readthrough within series and within your catalogue and when and how you should use it. A lot of people go crazy when calculating this figure, but what does it actually mean and how reliable is it?…
Does my book need an ISBN? The Happy Writer episode 19. Episode 19 of The Happy Writer looks at another much-asked question: does my book need an ISBN? What are ISBNs for, when are they used, who uses them and when do you need one? Listen to this episode on…
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…
This question comes up quite a bit amongst new writers. They have finished manuscript and I wondering what to do with it. They may feel discouraged by the long and arduous process of finding a publisher, and they’re wondering whether to just self-publish. One thing I should say. Whether or…
This is a question that often gets asked: what are the benefits of going with a small press? First of all, there are a number of different definitions of the word small press. Some people define a small press as one that is not one of the big five publishing…
In the three year plan, I use the example of publishing four books a year. I did this because it is a comfortable publishing pace for me, and I think it should be very achievable at just a thousand words a day. But how often do you really need to…
