Publishing
Lately I have read several comments by other e-book authors saying that they have given up promoting their books because it is too much work and the payoff is just not worth it. Those people are authors. But they are not entrepreneurs. It is okay to just be an author and write your books, if [...]
Nobody was more surprised than I was to learn that my mystery, Big Lake, had risen to number 23 in the Paid Kindle store, number 4 in Bestsellers in Mysteries & Thrillers, and even more amazing, it was listed at number 76 on the New York Times Kindle Bestseller List! The book has been in [...]
I’ve always been a firm believer in setting goals, and then working out a plan to achieve them. And more often than not, if I set realistic goals, plan right, and work that plan, I accomplish them. Sometimes I even exceed them. And once in a while, the results blow me completely away. Last month, [...]
In late August, I wrote a blog post titled The Importance of Setting Goals, in which I said that when I uploaded my first e-books to Amazon’s Kindle bookstore in late May, I had a goal of earning $300 a month from e-book sales within six months. The September sales report is in, and I [...]
Since I talked about freedom of speech in yesterday’s Bad Nick Blog, I decided I’d go ahead and post some thoughts on freedom of the press as well, because a lifetime in the small town newspaper business taught me that it is probably one of our least understood rights. For our purposes, the press is [...]
Many are sure that in this age of information overload, where we can read about a typhoon in Malaysia or an earthquake in Chile on our computers, or even our telephones as it happens, the traditional big city newspaper is becoming a dinosaur. And they are correct. Big newspapers lost their identity to corporate publishing [...]
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All of my life, I have believed in setting goals, both personally, and in business. I have always felt that if you don’t have a goal, how can you know where you are going, and which path to take to get there? I also believe that goals have to be specific. It’s easy to say [...]