by Kevin Tumlinson | Nov 30, 2017 | Author How-To & Mindset
For the past four days, my internet service provider (who shall remain unnamed) has had a major outage. It’s impacting a large portion of the country, I’m told, and there’s no word on when it will be restored. And, by sheer coincidence, my laptop and phone have lost...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Aug 2, 2017 | Author Essentials, Author How-To & Mindset, Features & Walk-Thrus, Knowledge Base
With Draft2Digital adding OverDrive as one of its eBook distribution platforms, indie authors have a new and easy way to get their books into more than 38,000 public, corporate, and school libraries, in 40+ countries worldwide. We’d shout about it, but we don’t want...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Mar 10, 2017 | Author How-To & Mindset
One of the burdens shouldered by indie authors is the overhead of the business. With a traditional publishing contract, some of that overhead is mitigated. The author isn’t asked to cover overhead and pay directly for cover design, layout, or distribution—though...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Jan 26, 2017 | Author Essentials, Author How-To & Mindset
Let’s be absolutely clear: There is no one, right way to market your work. That said, there are some things that will help make marketing your work easier. In this week’s post we’re taking a look at some of the best practices of author marketing. Do...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Jan 18, 2017 | Author Essentials, Author How-To & Mindset
Everything you read in last week’s post is meant to more or less get you to a base level of marketing performance. You could start and stop right there and do pretty well for yourself. But let’s take things just a smidge further. This week we’re talking about some...