The Self-Publisher's Notebook

It matters not whether you are an indie author or a legacy published author. Show me an author who doesn't what his or her book to land a Featured Deal on BookBub and I'll show someone who is ei...

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I saw this coming when CreateSpace announced it was discontinuing editing, design, and marketing services to its customers. Soon afterwards Kindle Direct Publishing began offering POD services. ...

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The fourth novel in my Inspector Thomas Sullivan Thriller series, AN INNOCENT MAN, is available for pre-order now on Amazon. It will become available November 9th, 2018. Amazon 500 y...

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The first of two prequels planned for the Inspector Thomas Sullivan Thriller series, THE FRACTURED MAN is now available from Amazon and other online retailers!   In the future, as humani...

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"The money is in the list." It's a well known quote from the direct mailing industry and has become axiomatic in the e-mail marketing world as well. For new authors struggling to build a fan bas...

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The word FREE generally catches my eye. But, if you are like me, you've been burned enough to be wary of anything obtained for free. Let's face it, you get what you pay for. In this instance ...

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The competition in the fiction market is fierce. If you're like me, the problem you face is not that readers don't like your story. It's the fact you're having a hard time getting your stories i...

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I had no clue this was a legitimate possibility. Alinka Rutkowska, a successful children's author and author coach, has a new, INEXPENSIVE online course to show you how to go about connecting wi...

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From May 16 through the 20th, THE PREDATOR AND THE PREY, the first book in my Inspector Thomas Sullivan series of scifi thrillers is FREE via Amazon's Kindle. Get your FREE copy! Meet ...

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The second novel in Inspector Thomas Sullivan Series, Last Train to Nowhere, is now available from Amazon in both Kindle and paperback editions! Enter to win a signed copy from a GoodReads Give...

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I don't understand social media, which I suppose is an indicator in part of my age and Luddite ways. I teach at a "technology school" and have been forced to embrace the use of technology far mo...

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Four books for .99!   ASHLEY L. HUNT EBOOK CATEGORIES - Cyberpunk Anthology Adventure - Science Fiction Action Military Romance - Dystopian Survival Post Apocalyptic Romance - SciFi Romance Ad...

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I was excited to learn today the cover design for my first novel, THE PREDATORY AND THE PREY, was a finalist out of 90 designs for the February 2017 cover design contest hosted each month by the...

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From March 6 until March 24, three signed copies of THE PREDATOR AND THE PREY are up for grabs in a GoodReads Giveaway! Click here to participate in the FREE Giveaway. You'll need a GoodRead...

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My novel The Predator and The Prey is FREE for three days on KDP Select, February 24-26, 2017. Take advantage of this limited three day offer and meet my anti-hero Thomas Sullivan! Clic...

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In the process of updating the interior file for my novel, THE PREDATOR AND THE PREY , I noticed Kindle Direct Publishing is now offering a Beta program for paperback versions of your Kindle boo...

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I had to force myself to commit to using social media as I started the process of trying to build a sustainable author's platform for the launch of my fiction series. After reading more books on...

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Not being the most computer savvy individual, it has taken me a bit to get the signup page for my new author's newsletter, THE INSPECTOR'S REPORT , up and running. Of all the things I have tr...

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My Amazon Kindle Scout campaign has ended. Within the next fifteen days I will be notified by Amazon whether or not they will buy the ebook and audio rights to my novel THE PREDATOR AND THE PREY...

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In an earlier post I described in a fair amount of detail how to use the Social Media aggregating site Headtalker as a promotional tool. I had used it to promote my campaign for my novel The P...

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In my ongoing efforts to find affordable, namely FREE, methods of promoting my books and novel, I discovered Headtalker . The closest description I can find of what Headtalker is would be a crow...

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Indie and self-publishing authors often take two approaches to marketing their books, neither of which are very successful. Many authors are more than happy to upload their files to CreateSpace ...

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With a few simple, easy clicks you can nominate THE PREDATOR AND THE PREY for publication by Amazon's Kindle Scout! The "nomination campaign" runs from December 26th to January 24th. I would...

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The non-fiction books I authored are very niche in their nature and I had a specific target audience in mind when I wrote them. The keywords I provided to CreateSpace and KDP when I uploaded my ...

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When I published my first non-fiction book I never thought I would write, let alone see published, a novel. My wife was the first to put the idea in my head and encourage me to take the plunge. ...

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