The Year of Publishing Dangerously

In my last post, I took a not-so-gentle jab at the editors of the various writers’ magazines, who barely mention digital self-publishing in the crop of issues currently on the stands. Of course I do understand the editorial calendar restraints under which these good people are working, but I will point out the move toward [...]

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Writing, Publishing and the Same-Old, Same-Old

Today I went to my local Barnes and Noble store to exchange a purchase I had made a few days ago, and as usual, couldn’t resist stopping by the magazine section to check out what’s new.    As some of you know, I use magazines as a constant source of inspiration and did one of [...]

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Publishing Your “Found” Content on the Kindle

In my last post, I discussed my plans for getting all of my archived content out there and working for me on Amazon’s Kindle platform. And I thought  I had already inventoried all of my existing content from my marketing niche as well as the dozen short stories I’ve written but never published in the [...]

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Self-publishing for the Kindle – How to Plan Your Year

The first day or so of the New Year is generally a time to look ahead at what is possible for you and your business over the next twelve months. This year, my focus is going to be on self-publishing using Amazon’s Kindle platform, so I’m taking some time to plan out a publishing strategy [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions for Author-Entrepreneurs

I know, I know…the term “resolutions” has fallen out of favor, with many well-meaning people urging you to abandon the term in favor of “goals” or some less loaded word. Not me. I like the word myself. Resolutions. To resolve, meaning to reach a firm decision about something. As Abraham Lincoln saw fit to use [...]

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Self-Publishing – My Top 5 Predictions for 2012

2011 has been one wild ride for anyone who is an author, publisher or simply a lover of good books. Last January millions of (mostly) Americans were busy buying content for their new Kindles, as well as a handful if other ereader brands. Let’s take a quick look back at this last year at some [...]

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My Kindle Free Ebook Promotion – A Case Study

On Christmas Eve, I put in place my first Kindle ebook free promotion. I’ve already explained elsewhere why I believe giving your ebooks away can be a good idea, but I’ll recap my thoughts about my strategy for this particular ebook here and my investigation of how this campaign proceeded: Other than a collaborative print [...]

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Kindle Publishing – Authors and Marketing

My Amazon KDP Select free promotion of my short fiction piece ended late last night. I’ve been following some of the threads on the various Kindle author’s forums, as other authors are posting some of their results, as well as their hopes and frustrations with the process. What is most amazing to me is that [...]

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The Ebook Tipping Point – 3 Ways to Leverage the Coming Wave

There is one more day left in my Amazon KDP Select “give your ebook away” experiment, and I’ll be sharing the results of that promotion very soon. In today’s post, I want to talk about the Ebook Tipping Point and why this is vital to the plans you have for marketing your business in the [...]

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Kindle Publishing – 7 Steps to Read Your Ebooks on Any Reader

In my last post, I introduced you to DRM (DIgital Rights Management) and you probably understand by now that I’m firmly on the side of no DRM, or as we indie authors like to refer to it, DRM Free.   Today, while my KDP Select free promotion for The Littlest Angel is cranking away in [...]

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