Struggling to work out whether your advertising on Amazon, Bookbub, etc is paying its way? Help is at hand with Ricardo Fayet’s post explaining number-crunching techniques that work – includes a free spreadsheet!
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A New Concept in Book Discoverability: Reedsy Discovery Book Review Service
Frustrated at how hard it is to boost your books’ discoverability? This innovative new book review service, Reedsy Discovery, is worth checking out. As it launches, Reedsy’s co-founder Ricardo Fayet invites your feedback.
Why Indie Authors Should Seek Further Collaboration Opportunities in 2018 (and a Call for Case Studies)
Why you should consider ways of collaborating with other authors to build your self-publishing success in 2018 – and ideas for how to do that
How to Use Reedsy’s Book Editor to Format Ebooks and Print for Free
How to use the Reedsy Book Editor to format ebooks and print books for free – a really helpful how-to post for indie authors who want to DIY
Self-publishing News: Widening Platforms
One of the things I love so much about being an indie is the tendency to end up in places you never imagined seeing yourself – whether that’s literally or metaphorically. Because as an indie, you have a certain openness to saying yes to opportunities and seeing where they lead. This week found me led […]
Self-Publishing News: The Times They Are A Changing
OK, I couldn’t not use that as my title this week, could I?! And if you don’t know what I mean, let me explain, slowly and calmly. This week saw the announcement of the 2016 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. And the winner was Bob Dylan. Nobel Prize. Bob Dylan. Yes! These are […]
This Week’s Self-publishing News
It is a confusing time of year. Here in the UK Facebook feeds have been bursting at the seams with glorious variants on the theme of “Go home April, you’re drunk” as blizzards shoe in the, er, summer. Whichever hemisphere you’re in, at least you can wrap up warm and know that you are free […]
This Week’s Self-publishing News
Do not adjust your sets. It really is Thursday. I feel like Jesse Eisenberg playing Mark Zuckerberg in the Social Network in one of those archetypical scenes that you sort of know happens only in cinema – and on the Dow Jones, if news channels are to be believed. As I post this, all of […]
This Week’s Self-publishing News
Love writing – detest editing? Among this week’s good news reports is that an innovative self-publishing tool is at hand for formatting and conversion – and it’s free. As for conflicting data on digital book sales, a new indie author-inclusive survey aims to give a fuller picture on the under-reported self-publishing sector. Elsewhere, no surprises […]
Lessons from the Women’s Fiction Festival in Matera
From the Women’s Fiction Festival held recently in Matera, Italy, Ricardo Fayet of ALLi partner member Reedsy reports encouraging news for self-publishing authors throughout Europe . United We Stand Unity and connection between authors has been widely discussed over the past few weeks. This is mainly the result of the much too commented Amazon vs […]