(This is an excerpt from my Indie Author Survival Guide, available on Kindle and Nook.) Ch 4.8 Get Thee A Mailing List If you publish books, you should have a mailing list. Period.  Really. It’s that simple.  Why Do I Need One? Social media outlets come and go, and access to all those followers can change in a heartbeat if the social media… Read More

   (This is an excerpt from my Indie Author Survival Guide, available on Kindle and Nook.) Ch 4.7 Book Discovery in the Digital Age “Word of mouth at the speed of electrons.” This is how I think of book discovery in the digital age.  People tend to think selling their book means hyper marketing methods: tweeting your book a hundred times a day, spamming… Read More

   (This is an excerpt from my Indie Author Survival Guide, available on Kindle and Nook.) Ch 4.6 Reviews and How to Get Them Two reviews of Open Minds (Mindjack #1) “This is a brilliant young adult novel unlike any I’ve read. It is a great sci-fi page-turner and I can’t wait to read the rest.” “I really didn’t like this book. It was… Read More

   (This is an excerpt from my Indie Author Survival Guide, available on Kindle and Nook.) Ch 4.5 Pricing Your Ebook One of the agonizing great things about self-publishing is that you get to set your own price. And not just once – you can change your price as much as you like (whether this is a good thing to do, is another matter)…. Read More

Cool month-long event highlighting indie authors! #awesome I’m honored to be a part of this month-long celebration of indie authors! Today, Kelly Fox is hosting me on her blog “Kindle and Me” with all kinds of fun stuff: an interview, a playlist for Mindjack, and one of the bonus scenes I wrote a long time ago (and which was way… Read More

   (This is an excerpt from my Indie Author Survival Guide, available on Kindle and Nook.) Ch 4.3 Blurbs That Grab You I have great respect for my readers’ time. They have busy lives, and if I want them to spend hours and hours reading my novel, I need to show them, up front, that it will be worth their time. A great (professionally… Read More