Archive for January 2014
4 Dumb Ways To Waste Your Writing Time via @BadRedheadMedia
I read an interesting article on the Good Men Project site today: 12 Stupid Things People Care Way too Much About, by Mark Manson. I loved the article because sometimes, as authors, we get too caught up in petty stuff and lose our focus: writing our next book. Not only that, but social media has…
Read MoreIndie Authors Naked Excerpt
From the Introduction of Indie Authors Naked by Amy Edelman: IndieReader was launched in ‘07, otherwise known as the dark days of self-publishing. Back then, every book was considered a vanity publication, every author a failed writer. Denial ran so high that when the self-pubbed book, Her Last Letter by Nancy C. Johnson hit The New York Times bestseller list, the good folks at…
Read More4 Common Misperceptions About Self-Publishing Authors Need To Change NOW
I was talking with a publisher friend the other day about some of the scariest (and saddest) delusions many self-published authors believe about having a successful book. Here are a few I hear all the time. Let’s deconstruct. IT’S SO EASY Yea, sooooo easy. Please. I’m grateful that when I decided to self-publish my first…
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