Book Marketing: How to Start a Genre Festival – Case Study of “Crime at the Castle”
Inspiring case study of how one indie author has set up a lit fest specialising in her genre - find out how she did it and get inspiration for one of your own!
Book Marketing: How to Reach Young Readers through Book Festivals
Do you write for children and young adults? Need ways to reach both young readers and parents who hold the pursestrings? Zoe Sadler offers top tips on using book festivals for this.
Book Marketing: How to Boost Print Sales with Christmas Fairs
Book marketing at Christmas time: how to sell your self-published books at local Christmas events
Book Marketing: How to Turn Your Self-published Book into an Online Course
Could you make more money by turning one of your books into an online course? This post will help you get decide - and get started.
Advanced Self-Publishing Salon w/ Orna Ross & Joanna Penn November 2017
Each month Orna Ross and Joanna Penn join forces to bring you The Advanced Self-Publishing Salon, a live online broadcast where they discuss what’s going on in the publishing industry.
What’s the Right Price for a Self-published Ebook? – 8 Tips on Pricing Kindle Ebooks
Wondering whether you've got the price right for your ebooks? Check these 8 simple tips to help you optimise sales and profitability.
Fringe Highlight Podcast: 5 Tools to Road-Test your Book Idea w/ Tara R Alemany
A little bit of market research can go a long way toward ensuring the financial success of your books. Learn how to test topic ideas and refine them into ready-to-sell titles for enthusiastic readers.
How Changing the Covers on a Self-published Book Can Boost Sales – A Case Study
Have you got the best covers for your books? Writing coach Jenny Alexander's case study of boosting sales with a new cover may inspire you to think again.
Writing to Match Genres & Categories – or in Defiance of Them (the Indie Author’s Prerogative!)
Should indie authors comply with genre expectations or defy them? Kicking off a new series about the role of genre in self-publishing authors' success.
Fringe Highlight Podcast: Author Tools to Reach Readers
In this Fringe Highlight podcast from Carla King you will learn how to vary pricing to leverage the power of free without sacrificing profit; how to generate a monthly income with subscriptions to your works-in-progress, how to pre-sell, and what tools you can use to reach readers.
Opinion: How Indie Authors Can Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Book Marketing
Four main reasons why authors hold back from marketing their books - which describes you? And how do you snap out of it?
Belinda Griffin shares a 3-point action plan.
Writing: How to Write and Market a Memoir about Relocating Abroad
Ever moved house, region, country, continent? All good fodder for a self-published memoir - and Jean Gill, relocated from Wales to France, tells you how to write one.