This week I received my first electronic payment from Amazon for my Kindle e-book efforts, covering sales made during the last 10 days in May. It was only $107.53, but that’s money I didn’t have before. I now have five e-books available on Amazon’s Kindle bookstore, as well as a sixth book, The Step-by-Step Guide [...]
As self-publishers, we often think of our books as our children, After all, we created them – they come from inside of us. And just as with our children we love them unconditionally, and tend to overlook their flaws. Unfortunately, this can be a mistake. Because just as with children, some grow up to be [...]
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No matter what your subject matter, from non-fiction niche material to mysteries or historical romances, every writer’s toolbox should contain many of the same things. These include a computer with word processing software (which is standard equipment these days), a decent printer, an up to date dictionary, a good style guide (I still rely on [...]
A lot of people who read my first mystery, Big Lake, have been asking me if there will be a sequel, and if so, when it will come out. Folks have also asked me if Big Lake, which is available as an e-book in Amazon’s Kindle bookstore, will have a printed edition. To answer the [...]
I uploaded my mystery Big Lake to Amazon’s Kindle program on Sunday, May 22, and by noon May 25th I had sold 100 copies. By the end of the month, sales topped out at 169, or an average of almost 17 books a day. Within a couple of days of uploading Big Lake, I uploaded [...]
I have made my living as a self-publisher for most of my life, and if I have learned one thing, it is that the writing is only part of the business, and it’s the easiest part. As in any business, self-publishing requires a knowledge of finance, marketing, and customer relations, just to name a few [...]
As I reported in my last blog, I uploaded my mystery novel Big Lake to Amazon’s Kindle e-book publishing program on Saturday, and it went live about noon on Sunday. I announced that the book was available in my RV blog, and by the end of the day, 26 copies had sold. I was really [...]
What Makes A Good Blog Post?
After reading the article Blogging For Bucks on my main self-publishing website, a reader wrote to ask what makes a good blog post, and how to get reader comments in response. Some of my blog posts that I never expected to do much have gotten numerous responses, while others that I considered to be excellent, [...]
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