Writing, self-publishing, book marketing, making a living with your writing
In today's show, Smashwords CEO Mark Coker and I review the state of the indie nation and how things have changed since we both met in 2010. In the intro, I talk about completing the Creative Freedom …
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The first novel is definitely the hardest! You think you have internalized how a story works as a reader and then you discover there is so much more to learn. In this article, Natasa Lekic from New …
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I love learning from smart marketers who are using data to analyze what actually works in selling books. In today's show, Ricci Wolman shares some brilliant tips based on extensive sales data through …
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I live in central London and every time I travel on the Tube, I see people reading ... with headphones plugged in. They are listening to music at the same time as reading. My husband does it at …
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The 'poor, starving artist' myth has kept a lot of creatives down, but we're living in a time of abundance – of creativity, of global readership and of the opportunity to publish and reach them. In …
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A writer's life is not an inherently healthy one. We sit for long periods of time, and studies show that sedentary behavior is bad for us. We hunch over keys, creating back problems. We stare at …
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