What is Publishing 3.0? Find out what it means to you! Industry-shaking news is changing the publishing game and opening doors to your career as an indie author. Do you have a great idea for a book or a manuscript in development, but you don’t know the best way to...

Neil Gaiman created a MasterClass and I just had to enroll. I was so inspired by Neil's process and techniques that I have started work on a new novel. It's going swimmingly! If you are at a place where starting a new fiction project works for you, I'd like to invite...

See the actual steps you need to take to prepare a preorder for release on Amazon. You get a full tour all of the setup pages on your KDP Bookshelf. This is a highly useful walkthrough if you want to run a preorder book promotion on Amazon or you just want to know...

Contest are great fun and can drive engagement and expand the reach of a book promotion. If your prizes are valuable or interesting, your followers will share the contest with others even if it lessens their own chance to win. What’s more, the contest doesn’t have to...

Why do you write books? Is it for passion or for profit? Expression, creativity, and the need to tell a good story are some passionate reasons. Authority, money, and credibility are profit driven ones. Find out where you fall on the profit/passion spectrum in this...

For many of us, devoting consistent hours to writing ain’t no easy enchilada. This is especially true if you are struggling to feed and shelter yourself and your family with the income from your efforts. Doubt and criticism, from oneself and from outsiders, have...

In this dawn of new publishing, there is a hair’s breadth of difference between what straight-up service providers and hybrid publishers do. Hybrid publishers have a traditional manuscript acquisition process and distribute books through traditional channels but where...

Pre-orders count towards sales! It is an age-old tactic. Have you ever wondered how books reach #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List before they are for sale to the public? That's the magic of pre-orders. Amazon has made this powerful tool available to direct...

Before you publish your book, it’s common practice to give away pre-release copies of your book called ARCs. A.R.C. stands for advance reader copy or advance review copy. Your fans and launch team will appreciate these as gifts, however, ARCs traditional and true...

Online courses or immersion experiences can take a $10 book and multiply its revenue-generating power by 10 or 20 fold. If you have written a professional or personal development book, your outline and sections of your book can transfer seamlessly over to a learning...