Indie Writer Unboxed is book 4 in the The Three-Year, No-bestseller Plan For Making A Living From Your Fiction series So. You’ve self-published. You’ve written some books, but they’re not selling as well as you hoped. Or maybe you sold well in the beginning but your sales have slipped and…
“Why don’t my books sell?” I get asked this question a bit, so I’m making a post about it, so that I can easily refer to it. Remember that I don’t have all the answers either, and there are people who sell a lot more than I do. How to…
The question of ISBNs in self-publishing comes up a bit. Traditionalists are adamant that an ISBN is “essential” and that it make you look “professional”. I have to admit to being a bit allergic to that latter word: “professional”. It’s a word that’s making a beeline for my list of…
Yesterday I had the pleasure to be invited by the New South Wales Writers’ Centre as a panelist for the DIY Digital weekend. In the audience were people who were interested in self-publishing and who were taking part in this event to learn the ropes. It was a good time,…
A lot of self-publishing authors are having a go at designing their own book covers. Yes, I know people say that you should have it done professionally, and yatida, but if you have a lot of shorter works, that quickly becomes very expensive. At 99c per short story, you have…
