Authors

Nick Russell on March 16th, 2012

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 [...]

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Nick Russell on May 31st, 2011

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 [...]

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Nick Russell on May 18th, 2011

To be a writer, you must first be a reader. It’s that simple. If I had only one piece of advice to give authors and self-publishers, it is to read everything you can get your hands on. Not just books on your own special area of interest, although those should be a top priority, but [...]

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Nick Russell on May 16th, 2011

I had a conversation recently with a young man who complained that agents, editors, and publishers won’t give him a break. He said he has sent his autobiography to “at least” six or seven agents and two different large publishing houses, and has never even received the courtesy of a reply. I asked him if [...]

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Nick Russell on May 7th, 2011

For years, the big traditional publishing companies had a lock on the industry. If a writer wanted to get published, he had to play the game – first you get an agent (almost impossible), then your agent gets your book read by somebody at a publishing house (again, almost impossible), then your book gets picked [...]

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Nick Russell on April 26th, 2011

At every writing and publishing seminar I have been involved in, somebody asks me how they can submit their work to an agent or publishing company and be sure they won’t steal the idea and go with it themselves. Likewise, authors who want to self-publish fear that someone at the printing company will rip off [...]

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