YES, You MUST Have A Website! IF you are serious about being an author or self-publisher … in fact, IF you have a freelance business of ANY kind … full time, part-time or occasional … you NEED a website. I won’t bore you with the details, but here’s why: A website gives you credibility. You’ve […]
How To Ask Your Friends For A Review
Approaching friends, relatives and associates is one of the FASTEST and often easiest way to get reviews just after you hit the publish button. Why are you so reluctant to ASK your friends for a review? I know you are shy and are reluctant to ask your friends for a review … but just DO […]
Why Did I Choose To Focus On Paranormal Romance For My First Self-Published Novel?
Why Did I Choose To Focus On Paranormal Romance For My First Self-Published Novel? I’ve had a string of conversations about writing since I took my first leap into self-publishing. One question that often comes up is why I chose to focus on paranormal romance. I just don’t look like the type of person who […]
I Use Scrivener Every Single Day — Here’s WHY and HOW
I use Scrivener every single day. It is without a doubt one of my top five “must have” tools because it makes my life easier, makes my work more organized, allows me to work faster and is a delight to use. Scrivener works on both PC and Apple devices. It is incredibly cheap and […]
Your Book’s Interior Design And Formatting
Many authors don’t even think about the interior design and formatting of their books. Yet it is critically important to your readers, AND to the sales of your books. Formatting refers to the way you enter paragraph and line breaks, indents, spaces, and punctuation marks. It includes the typefaces you use as well as how […]
Categories Can Increase Book Sales By Exposing You To New Audience Niches
Choosing the Right Categories For Your Book Can Help Make or Break Your Book Here is an example of how this works. Let’s say you have just completed a stunningly beautiful ethnic cookbook. It is filled with over a hundred amazing recipes and each recipe has a fabulous photo to go with it. You upload […]
Kindle Research With KDSPY: Find Out What And How Your Competitors Are Doing
If you have a self-publishing business or are an author, you’ve probably spent a lot of time in niche research. You already know that one of the most important decisions you can make toward increasing book sales and making money is to select the right categories for your book. This process is sometimes painful […]
Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Submitting My Writing
A few tips to help new writers avoid the same mistakes I made. Written by Leslie Wibberley When I returned to an old passion of mine, writing, just under five years ago, I was hopelessly uninformed about pretty much everything about the writing world. All I knew is that I loved to put words down […]
How To SELL Your Book Using The “Look Inside” Feature
Are you using Amazon’s “Look Inside” feature to the Max? Are you using it to sell your book? Are you using it to grab readers names for your list, or send them to your website? Smart book marketers use the “look inside” feature to: encourage readers to hit the BUY button show potential buyers what […]
Don’t Allow Your Website To Be Held Hostage
Over the years as a freelance writer and SEO service provider I have run into numerous clients who have had their websites held hostage for one reason or another. Some of the time the problem is relatively easy to resolve, other times it can become a full blown hostage crises. It all starts with NOT […]