Self-publishing Blog
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 [...]
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 [...]
As I wrote in my last blog post, The Rules Have Changed, I am taking some first steps into e-book publishing, and I will be sharing my progress in blog posts here. I’ve spent a lot of time reading and researching publishing my books for the Amazon Kindle recently, since Amazon is responsible for the [...]
I got an e-mail a while back complaining that I was “whoring my writing talent for money.” Huh? Did you not notice that the name of this website and blog is Publishing4Profit? I have never apologized for the fact that I make my living writing and publishing. I state very bluntly on the opening page [...]
Welcome to my self-publishing blog. Here I will share my thoughts and experiences from a 30 year career in publishing everything from small town daily and weekly newspapers to special reports, books, booklets, blogs, and websites. As the name of this website suggests, I approach publishing with one goal, to make a profit. It is [...]