Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success Quotes

“The first draft is your “vomit onto the keyboard” draft, wherein your task is to simply keep moving and outrun your doubts.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“Success comes from hard work and the accumulation of small numbers.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“The reward of being able to tell stories every day is worth the effort required to make it happen, no matter how long it takes.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“The people who read pirated books are never going to buy your work anyway; it’s a totally different audience than purchasing readers. Even if you could scrub your stuff from the Internet, you’d only be keeping your book from pirate readers. You wouldn’t convert those readers into buyers. They’d simply read something else that was free.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“Understand That Bad Reviews Are a Sign That You're Relevant The only way you could never get any negative reviews would be if you were so incredibly irrelevant that no one thought you were worth talking or thinking about.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“People will buy bogus quick-fix solutions all day long, but few want to hear that the way to build a business or make money is to work hard for a long time and never surrender.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“Everyone is OK with a blank piece of paper, but the minute you start putting words on it, you’ll start losing the people who don’t like those words.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“But here’s an ugly truth about typos and other small editing mistakes: They exist in traditional books, too.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“Do you know what truly, honestly separates people who succeed from those who fail? It’s simple:  People who do the work succeed. People who don’t fail.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“If you want to succeed in indie publishing, be prepared to work your ass off and demonstrate patience. Writers who aren’t willing to do those two things will fail. Period.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“Seth Godin said, “You will be judged, or you will be ignored.”  You get to pick one or the other. Which will it be?”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“Taking acceptable risks is a key ingredient for success. If the path was easy, everyone would take it. Ballsy people, if they’re intelligent and learn from their mistakes, shape the world. The thing that few people get is that ballsy people aren’t any more certain than anyone else. They know they could fail, but also know that if they don’t take a shot, they can’t succeed either.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“Success comes from hard work and the accumulation of small numbers. Unlike yesterday, today’s prosperity can bloom from continuous intelligent production. For the first time in history, life as a full-time writer has become about simple math.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“Courage is taking action in the presence of risk, in spite of fear.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“The harder I work, the luckier I get,” and that is absolutely how we all feel about luck, publishing, and life in general. For”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“For example, there are twice as many English speakers in India than in England, and”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“be writing the next book. That’s your best move at most times, especially when you’re new.  The rest is details.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“When it comes to the pipeline between you and your customer, be paranoid, and trust no one.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“Publishers always want to know about your “platform,” which means “your ability to promote the book without our help.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“Pitching an unsolicited novel in those ancient days had about as much chance of success as spitting from high orbit and hitting a shot glass,”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“deluded into thinking that things are awesome when everyone else sees them as hopeless.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“Belief comes first. Actions that justify that belief come second.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“always seek to determine if any given action is worth your time.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“Pressfield’s approach (which he put a finer point on in The War of Art’s sequel, Do The Work) sounds almost merciless.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“becoming a successful indie author is hard work. Very hard work.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“There is no limit to your imagination. Your bricks of thought can lead readers to find you. Build better roads to make this easy.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“Film producer Samuel Goldwyn said, “The harder I work, the luckier I get,”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“Our first CTA is usually for another purchase: either the next book or a bundle of multiple books. After that we’ll have a call to join our e-mail list in order to get upcoming books free or at a discount. We often follow with a third CTA that contains either a list of our other books or (preferably) a link to a web page with that list (seeing as we can update the webpage easily but don’t want to update all of our books’ CTAs). Somewhere in there we usually try adding a request for the reader to leave a review for the book they’ve just read.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“You’re allowed to manipulate the environment, but not the character.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success

“Indies are doing well because of their willingness to experiment, their willingness to share data and lessons with other writers, and their unflinching habit of placing the reader first.”
― Sean Platt, Write. Publish. Repeat. The No-Luck-Required Guide to Self-Publishing Success