If you’re an aspiring or published author, you probably know that building an author platform helps you reach more readers and sell more books. But what exactly is an author platform, and how do you build one? The starting point is creating a blog or website, but there many more parts to it than that.…
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Today’s book market gives power to readers – even the not-so-nice ones who post mean book reviews. Less than ten years ago, readers had little opportunity to review books. You could only find book reviews in newspapers and the back blurb of books. But times have changed. Nowadays, every reader can have their say about…
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We live in a world of streams of data. You would think it should be easy to access book sales data to find out where your book sales come from. But the truth is that it is next to impossible. No, I’ll rephrase that. It is impossible to access book sales data apart from raw…
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Ebooks are price-sensitive, so what is your Kindle ebook pricing strategy? If you have set your ebook selling price and not changed it since you first published it, perhaps it’s time to take another look at your list price. If book sales are not rolling in the door for you, it’s probably a good time…
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Writing is akin to being naked in the street, baring yourself to the world. This paraphrases the thought expressed to me by a friend recently when we discussed publishing one’s writing. The analogy of writing naked is very good. We write our thoughts hidden from public view and safe from prying eyes and ears. A…
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Here are ten humorous writing tips to help you improve your writing accuracy. We all spend so much time writing online. It is always a good idea to make sure that your writing skills are up to an acceptable and readable standard. There’s nothing worse than reading a tweet, a LinkedIn or Facebook entry, or…
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The Amazon instant book preview widget is a fantastic free Kindle book promotion tool to encourage fast ebook preview reading. But it’s not so obvious to find. If you are promoting your books, you will know it takes a potential reader some clicks to get from a book link on your author’s website or blog…
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This is a short step-by-step guide on how to format an ebook in Microsoft Word. One of the common questions authors ask me is how to get the correct formatting for an ebook for Kindle, Smashwords, or Draft2Digital. While many authors might think that it is sometimes difficult to get a manuscript passed by Smashwords,…
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Something for Star Wars grammar lovers. There is nothing better than a little inverted Yoda grammar to get the purists’ teeth gnashing. The fantastic infographic below gives a few examples of Yoda speak, which I have to admit I love. From inverted word order, or inversion, to dropping auxiliaries, moving modifiers, all the way through…
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Penguin Random House has booted Author Solutions. Media reports have confirmed the sale of Author Solutions by Penguin Random House. It will abandon its venture into expensive self-publishing and concentrate on traditional publishing in the future. This article is now dated but remains online for reference value. Author Solutions is infamous For those who may…
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