by Sarah Kuiken | Feb 21, 2023 | Author How-To & Mindset
Hopefully, you already tune into our Self-Publishing Insiders live broadcasts or catch up after the fact on the podcast version. (If you don’t, sign up here to be in the know!) If you do follow Self-Publishing Insiders, you probably saw that Sam Horn joined us a few...
by Sarah Kuiken | Feb 14, 2023 | Author How-To & Mindset
If you missed Part 1 of this series about doing your own structural edit, go back and read that post first—it introduces core concepts and lays the foundation for this one. With your skeleton blurb clear in your mind and the knowledge that you have a complete...
by Sarah Kuiken | Feb 7, 2023 | Author How-To & Mindset
Editing is a famously daunting task for many writers, but it doesn’t have to be. At the end of the day, you want to put a compelling, gripping story out into the world—and as a storyteller, who better to take at least an initial look over your manuscript than you?...
by Sarah Kuiken | Jan 31, 2023 | Author How-To & Mindset
Love it or hate it, social media can be a valuable component of any indie author’s overall book promotion strategy. With 4.9 billion active social media users and counting, social media is an excellent resource for finding and connecting with like-minded authors and...
by Sarah Kuiken | Jan 24, 2023 | Author Essentials, Author How-To & Mindset
Between 2023 and 2028, the global audiobook market is expected to grow by nearly 25%. As digital continues to dominate, audiobooks occupy increasing market share because they’re easy to take anywhere. That kind of growth provides plenty of incentive for indie authors...
by Sarah Kuiken | Jan 17, 2023 | Author How-To & Mindset, Knowledge Base
By now, we hope you’ve heard the news that Smashwords and Draft2Digital have come together under one roof to form the most powerful distribution option for wide indie authors, anywhere. At the end of 2022, we enabled D2D authors to opt into the Smashwords store and...