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May 15, 2015
My Five Motivations
A couple months ago, I was on Kboards and came across this thread asking what motivates us to keep writing and publishing. I started to jot down my ideas and realized I was crafting a short blog post about my five reasons for continuing this path. So I decided to share it here. I’d be […]
May 1, 2015
Using Videos
Books are great. They’re associated with knowledge and adventure. They can be consumed quietly by yourself or can be read together in a book club or something similar. Yet books often lose out to the flashier forms of entertainment (movies, music, TV shows). But it’s not a complete wash. Authors can still use the same […]
April 17, 2015
Designing Your Print Book Interior
When I first decided to self-publish, one of the things I knew I wanted to have was a print book. I was aware of the print on demand (POD) service, Createspace and I knew how some indie authors were creating such beautiful print books that looked identical to traditionally published print books. These were the […]
April 3, 2015
Guest Blogging: Inviting Others
You may have noticed that about a couple months ago I interviewed Andrei Cherascu, author of Mindguard. It was my first dip into guest blogging and I loved it. The post was almost immediately the most-viewed post on this blog and drove my stats higher than they’ve ever been. The increase to that one post […]
March 20, 2015
Patience
Patience is a virtue. Patience is hard. Patience is something I’ve been faced with a lot since I first decided to go down the indie route. It takes time to set up your author platform, develop your publishing schedule, design your book cover, and—oh yeah—write the book! But in the end, it should all pay […]
March 6, 2015
Guest Post: Just Write
Who doesn’t love a feel-good post? We all have days when we question whether we can make it as a writer. We all doubt ourselves, our stories, and even the strength of our readership. Today, I have Darren Kirby to share his story and why, at the end of the day, he decided to tune […]
February 20, 2015
Guest Post: Grit and Passion
It’s always great when you meet fellow indie authors that publish in the same genre as you do. Even better when they’re relatively in the same position in their careers as you are and you can see their potential success bursting from them whenever you converse. Sever Bronny is someone I met on KBoards and […]
February 6, 2015
Book Cover Design: OctagonLab
I previously wrote about my experiences with 99Designs for the cover of my first novel, The Blood Moon. In that post I talked about how I tossed around the idea of using a site called OctagonLab for the design of the cover. Ultimately, I passed on OctagonLab for that cover, but for another cover—Snow After […]
January 23, 2015
Guest Post: Consistency and the Short Story Writer
For many self-published authors, writing short fiction is a viable option. Some are killing it with short fiction, others are struggling. There’s certainly a market for it, but it is smaller than full-length fiction. Today I have short story writer Elle Chambers to share her thoughts on short story writing and her experiences with it […]
January 5, 2015
Author Interview: Andrei Cherascu
I’ve said before that one of the best things you can do as an indie author is network. Get to know other authors who are using the indie publishing model in a way that suits them. One thing we all know as writers is that everyone has their own story. It’s always interesting to get […]
