by Kevin Tumlinson | Jul 27, 2020 | Author How-To & Mindset
“What’s the biggest obstacle to finishing your book?” When the question was posed recently on a Facebook forum, it got the usual answers: Not enough free time, too many family obligations, too many job responsibilities. And then there was the more...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Jan 20, 2020 | Author How-To & Mindset
As self-publishers, we Indie Authors have a particular inclination toward bootstrapping. We like to own our careers, and we also like to own the entire process of producing a book. As bootstrapping authors, we tend to want to do all the jobs. Maybe we’re trying to cut...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Jun 28, 2017 | Author How-To & Mindset
We talk a lot about the business of publishing—everything from picking the right title and choosing the right cover to writing a winning book description and marketing your book to readers. All that is important, particularly for authors just getting into the...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Jun 1, 2017 | Author How-To & Mindset
David Eddings, an American novelist who was most famous for his epic fantasy books, once gave the following advice about the practice to new writers : “My advice to the young writer is likely to be unpalatable in an age of instant successes and meteoric falls. I tell...