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How to Make (More) Money With Writing?

No matter if you sold the publishing rights for your book or if you are self-publishing: The dominant question is how to earn money with your art.  Only those who have written a book know how much time and effort such an endeavor requires.  It starts with the research, the outline for the work, the writing and then the revising and many rounds of editing.

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Efforts and Demands of Publishing Books
The so-called “published” authors – who receive only 8 -12% royalties, and maybe not even an a...

Why and How to Sell Foreign Rights

For small publishers and author-publishers, the thought of selling their book rights or their short stories internationally might be a scary one. Especially if they are not familiar with foreign right sales or haven’t attended any of the large book fairs in Europe, such as the (Frankfurt Book Fair, Leipziger Buchmesse, London or Bologna Book Fair, or the ones in Dubai or Asia.

Exploiting international rights became easier than ever for author-publishers. Writers can now engage with readersan...

Should You Write for Magazines and Newspapers?

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Many authors are totally focused on writing books and overlook magazine-writing, trying to get “published” or to self-publish only books and nothing else. They dream of seeing their own novel in bookstores. However, there are many benefits from writing for magazines.

Excerpt from our upcoming book: “How to Make More Money With Writing”.

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If you write articles, you reach more people than with books. Your book may sell 5,000 copies. Certainly, some books turn into bestsellers, but with mor...

Easy eBook Formatting and Distribution

Can you imagine to upload your ebook manuscript as a Word document within 2-3 minutes (including the sign-up process) to an ebook distributor? That you get your manuscript formatted for free, and find your book at Apple iBooks, B&N, Kobo, Tolino (in Europe), and several other online retailers within 24 hrs?

At a self-trial, I experienced just that. After reading several positive articles during the last two years from a variety of authors, I wanted to see it myself. Now I can second all of t...

Amazon USA vs the Rest of the World

Are We Amazon’s Foreign Aliens? I mean WE: readers and writers, Amazon customers/book suppliers, from Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ireland … Why are we treated by Amazon as second-class citizens in this global Internet world? Sounds like Donald Trumps’ slogan: Make America Great Again (and let others pay for it).
Do foreign customers/writers not have the same value for this American company? Here are several issues that writers and publishers encounter at Amazon.

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IngramSpark for POD and Book Distribution?

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There are some good reasons to choose IngramSparkfor POD: They offer stunning colors, sharp graphics, and crisp text, such as for children’s books, travel guides, cookbooks, graphic novels – all at prices comparable to black-and-white. And: they produce even hardcover books!

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Book distribution is via LightningSource/Ingram which is connected to a global distribution network of 40,000+ booksellers around the world – in stores and online. Ingram has printing facilities in the UK, Australia,...

Quick Overview of Printing with CreateSpace

While eBooks and Audio-Books are very popular, offering print books is almost a must! Beside larger quantities at traditional printing and digital printing, Print-on-Demand is the most economically way of creating print titles. For self-publishers and small imprint, CreateSpace is a popular supplier and distributor.

CreateSpace is Amazon’s POD subsidiary and provides the most competitively priced Print-on-Demand service: If an author-publisher delivers a perfectly prepared PDF manuscript it...

Helping Refugees: eBook to Raise Funds

"Most of us wish for a happy, healthy and prosperous year and it is ever more important here. Syrian families displaced by war wish for peace and wonder about when the day comes that the war is over if they will have a place to go back to.” . For the last two years, Canadian volunteer Charmaine Craig helped war refugees in Greece. This winter she went to Lebanon were huge tent cities house hundred-thousands of Syrian people, who lost their homes, jobs, schools and often many family members t...

Coming Soon: Book to Raise Funds

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“Happy New Year from the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon!!!
Most of us wish for a happy, healthy and prosperous year and it is ever more important here. Syrian families displaced by war wish for peace and wonder about when the day comes that the war is over if they will have a place to go back to.”
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For the last two years, Canadian volunteer Charmaine Craig helped war refugees in Greece. This winter she went to Lebanon were huge tent cities house hundred-thousands of Syrian people, who lost their h...

How to Apply for a Free Writer Residency

The good news: One proposal in three is typically funded! Late Winter and early spring are good times to apply for Writer Grants, which includes fellowships, workshops, residencies, travel expenses, sometimes even meals or small allowances … and not only in North America but worldwide. Here are some examples:

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EstNordEst at St Lawrence River Near Quebec City, Canada
Three residencies are offered per year, in the spring, summer, and fall. Up to four artists and a curator or a writer may part...