WEBINAR: How to Craft the Ultimate Marketing Plan
If you weren't able to make the joint D2D/Reedsy webinar about building a marketing plan last Thursday, this is your chance to catch the replay. You can click below to watch the full two hours of jam-packed marketing wisdom shared by Reedsy's Ricardo Fayet and D2D's...
How Your Writing Actually Improves With Age
They say that wine improves with age—and guess what? So does your writing. For many different reasons, people tend to associate getting older with losing certain abilities. But for writers, there is no perfect time to start writing or to stop. Rather, every age...
The Lazy Author’s Guide to Platform Building
This article about platform building is an adapted excerpt from the third edition of Let’s Get Digital: How To Self-Publish, And Why You Should by David Gaughran which is available now from all retailers. I have a considerable platform and it drives fewer sales than...
How to check book sales and royalties with D2D
I think the great philosopher, Rodney “Rod” Tidwell, best summed up both the existential question and the nature of an author’s reality when he said, “Show me the money.” Sure, Jerry Maguire gets all the credit, but we all know Rod had life pegged. The thing that...
You Are Not Alone: Exploring Writing Communities
The writing life can feel isolated, but it doesn't have to be. Let's talk about writing communities! There’s a myth about writers—that we’re all lonely, tortured souls who toil in isolation and obscurity. The popular conception of being an author is that we have to go...
We’ve already made Author Pages and Book Tabs better!
REMEMBER A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO? We were pretty excited to announce our new D2D Author Pages and D2D Book Tabs. And judging by all the tweets, Facebook posts, emails, and YouTube comments, you were pretty excited too! We’re not much for sitting around on our hands here...
