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Book Design 2.0: Crowdsourcing Your Cover Design

Our favorite step in the publishing process is the book design phase.

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in Design, Technology | 395 Words

Creative Book Marketing Idea: Decoupage Shoes!

In this post, you’re not going to learn about self-publishing.

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in Book Marketing, Branding, Fun | 145 Words

The Well-Rounded Authorpreneur: Make Your Content an Experience (Part 2 of 2)

In being a well-rounded authorpreneur (an author who recognizes what it takes to be successful as an author in today’s world), we know that authors have to think of themselves as thought leaders.

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in Audience, Authorpreneur, Content, Pub. Industry, Self-publishing, Thought Leader | 610 Words

The Well-Rounded Authorpreneur: Be a Thought Leader (Part 1 of 2)

In today’s world, there are about as many ways to publish (self-publishing, scholarly publishing, nonprofit publishing, digital publishing, etc.) as there are reasons (fame, passion, creating a movement, legacy, preservation, etc).

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in Audience, Authorpreneur, Book Marketing, Branding, Literary Trends, Motivational, Pub. Industry, Speaking, Storytelling, Thought Leader | 476 Words

10 Signs Your Indie Publishing Expert is Not a True Expert

We often meet authors who have spent pretty pennies getting their books published only to be disappointed by the end results.

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in Indie Publishing, Planning, Self-publishing | 400 Words

Indie versus Traditional: Do Traditionally Published Authors Work Harder?

Scrolling down the Twitter timeline this week, we came across a link to an article where bestselling author Sue Grafton had much to say about self-publishing.

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in Indie Publishing, Literary Trends, Royalty Publishing, Self-publishing, Traditional Publishing | 604 Words

How I Transformed My Blog Into a Book in 3 Simple Steps

A few years ago we started blogging about publishing because it was fun.

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in Blogging, Indie Publishing, Planning, Revising, Writing Tips | 358 Words

The Two BIGGEST Mistakes Publishers Make that Screw Over Authors

The truth about publishing is this: THE AUTHOR WILL PAY FOR IT…NO MATTER WHAT.

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in Design, Editing, Indie Publishing, Pub. Industry, Royalty Publishing, Self-publishing, Traditional Publishing | 685 Words

The Modern Author and the “Amateur” Book Review Bloggers

Much has changed in the old fortress of publishing over the past twenty years (since the rise of the Internet and self-publishing).

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in Blogging, Book Marketing, Pub. Industry, Reviews | 328 Words

The Self-Publishing Stigma: Do We Deserve It?

Publishing is on the cusp of the indie-publishing revolution–if you are a reader of our blog, you know that we talk about this all the time.

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in Indie Publishing, Motivational, Pub. Industry, Self-publishing, Writing | 624 Words

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