CREATING YOUR AUTHOR MARKETING PLAN: Setting Goals If you are truly serious about your writing career, then you need to look at it as a business. The marketing plan is your “plan of action” about what you are selling, who will want to buy it and the measures you’ll take to generate your brand and achieve a sale. Believe […]
Self Publishing TIP #2 : ISBN, Copyright, LOC, Barcodes
PRE-PLAN, PRE-REGISTER We all know that there is a cost to publishing. As a self-publisher, you bear this financial burden. You may feel that you don’t need anything other than your manuscript and a Kindle ebook. I guess that depends on what your goals and objectives are. For the rest of you, I recommend you, […]
The Author Marketing Plan Guide: 52 Weeks to Publishing
STRUCTURING THE AUTHOR MARKETING PLAN When you sit down to write, you come prepared with all the right tools, right? An outline, a computer, coffee and so on. Sure, there are times when you just wing it, but for the most part, you have an “idea” of where you are and where you are going in […]
Self-Publishing TIP #1: Pre-Register
PRE-PLAN, PRE-REGISTER If you set up your accounts now, you won’t be in a rush when you are ready to publish your book. There are several options for publishing, and while you may not use them all, pre-setting up your account is a wise choice. In most cases, your account will be approved within minutes. […]
Self-Publishing Resolutions: 52 Weeks to Publishing
SELF-PUBLISHING 101, INTRODUCTION I hear it every year, and mostly from myself. “This is the year I will publish my book.” Then your excitement and determination fades and soon it’s December with your manuscript unfinished and/or unpublished. THIS YEAR WILL BE DIFFERENT, right? You’ve made another New Year’s Resolution: to get published. But do you really know what […]
Proper format for Linking to CSS
Simple CSS Tips for improving your ebook formatting files as well as dressing up your Author Blogs There are several options available for linking your Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) to an HTML file. An external style sheet links to an HTML document using the LINK tag or the @import statement. Less efficient forms of using CSS […]
Research: Bane or Boon of Novelists?
Research. Does the word send you into spasms of frustration, dread or anxiety? Or conjure up images of formulas that you could never remember for the test? Or does the adventure of learning fire you up, get your juices flowing fast and hard? When I asked Suzanne for suggestions, she came up with this one. […]