The Smoke and Mirrors of the Self Publishing Game

This is a guest post by Jenn Grainger, and is taken from her awesome comment on my recent post about your best work.

This isn’t a post about sucking eggs. If you do want to do that, you can find some tips about doing so here.

Instead, this is a post for people who have a good book in them, but aren’t so sure about navigating all the smoke and mirrors that can come with self-publishing.

The launch phase lasts one week, where ranking with Amazon will succeed or fail.

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