Karen Myers, Author at The Self-Publishing Advice Center

Encore Month: #IndieAuthors Broaden Your Business

In today's encore post, Authorpreneur Karen Myers explains why indie authors need to keep learning and expanding their indie author business activity in order to remain vibrant, profitable and dynamic in an increasingly diverse publishing marketplace. She draws on examples of opportunities she has seized upon to grow her expertise, her reach and her reputation, while continuing to write and publish her own series of fantasy and sci-fi novels.

July 13, 2019
Karen Myers
Business & Planning, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution

Estate Planning for Your Indie Author Business

As indie authors, we may plan never to retire or to stop writing - but what will happen to our work when we die? To our royalties? To our rights? Micro-publisher Karen Myers offers some pointers on estate planning for indie authors.

Opinion: Why Indie Authors Need to Broaden Their Business

If you're now in a comfortable groove of writing and publishing your own books, it's time to step up your indie author operation and diversify - here's why and how, by authorpreneur Karen Myers, drawing on her own experience

How to Track Sales of Self-published Books

Expert advice to help indie authors with tracking book sales to help them improve the success of their author business - from US fantasy writer Karen Myers.

October 4, 2018
Karen Myers
Business & Planning, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution

Financial Management Image - Book Of Dollar Bills

Financial Management for Authorpreneurs (Part 3): How to Measure Return on Investment

In the third and final instalment of our really useful, clear guide to managing the profitability of your indie author business, authorpreneur Karen Myers talks about net income and how to calculate it.

Financial Management for Authorpreneurs (Part 2): How to Measure Net Income

In the second of really useful, clear guide to managing the profitability of your indie author business, authorpreneur Karen Myers talks about net income and how to calculate it.

Financial Management for Authorpreneurs (Part 1): How to Measure Gross Income and What That Means for Your Indie Author Business

Want to make your author business more profitable/cost-effective? Karen Myers' new series on financial management for indie authors kicks off with a clear explanation of what gross income is, why you need to know yours, and how that data can help you.

Book Marketing: How to Make a Printed Catalogue for your Self-published Books

A printed catalogue of your books is a handy item to have in your book marketing toolbox - and it's surprisingly affordable and simple to make yourself, if you follow ALLi Professional member Karen Myers' handy guide here, based on her own experience

Graph Of Sales Before And After Her Retooling

Opinion: If You Want to Sell More Books, Skill Up

Wondering how to sell more books? Read how US fantasy author Karen Myers sold more books in the first two weeks of 2018 than the whole of 2015, by stopping writing for a year in order to improve her marketing skills

January 29, 2018
Karen Myers
Business & Planning, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution

Opinion: Why You Should View Your Books from a Bookseller’s Perspective

A valuable insight into how booksellers view self-published books, by successful US indie author Karen Myers

March 6, 2017
Karen Myers
Opinion, Process 3 & 4: Production & Distribution

Opinion: Why Readers Don’t Owe Authors Book Reviews

Do you - should you - ask readers in the back matter of your self-published books to post reviews of your work? US indie author Karen Myers explains why she thinks it's a bad idea.