I discuss how to use groups in good reads and share some common sense do’s and don’ts for participating in groups. I also share how you can add a book to goodreads and share status updates on your progress for writing the book, and explain why you may want to share those updates with your readers and followers ..read more

Photo by Clem Onojeghuo from Pexels One of the discoveries I’ve made with writing books that are both fiction and non-fiction is just how different it is to market books depending on the genre and if the book is fiction or non-fiction. What works for marketing non-fiction books won’t necessarily work with fiction books and vice versa. As a result, its important to develop marketing strategies for the different types of books you write, if you write in more than one genre and if you write fiction and non-fiction books. In this article, I’m going to discuss how to market non-fiction books and w ..read more

I discuss how to price your books if your running a book sale and what strategies you may want to employ while running a sale. I also share some final thoughts on pricing and why price doesn’t always matter as much to your reader as you think it does ..read more

Photo by Cytonn Photography from Pexels In part 1 of this series I focused on how to set effective goals around your writing and in part 2 I covered how to set effective goals for marketing. The final article in this series focuses on the rest of your writing business, which is often overlooked in favor of the writing and marketing, but is just as important. what is the rest of the writing business that you need to plan for? The finances and operations, or administration of your writing business. You know all those background tasks that aren’t fun and glamorous, but need to be done. You don’t ..read more

In my previous post, I discussed the importance of setting writing goals for yourself. While writing is obviously the most important activity you’ll be doing, there are other aspects of self-publishing that need to be attended to. One of the more obvious ones is marketing, specifically what you do to both market yourself and your books. Setting goals for your marketing can be a little intimidating because there is so much marketing you can do and it comes down to figuring out the right marketing. So before you set any goals, I want you to keep the following advice in mind: You do not have to ..read more

Photo by Ameer Basheer on Unsplash I’ve written six books this year. Actually scratch that. I wrote 4 books and compiled two other books from content I’ve been working on for a while. I also wrote the first 11 episodes of an episodic content series and I have 3 books in progress at the time of this writing. It’s actually a lot of writing! Yet still I think about where I was at the beginning of 2021. I had written 10 books in 2020 and I had planned on writing another 10 in 2021. However life happened and my plan to write books got knocked down to writing 4 and making progress on 3 books. I act ..read more

Photo by Andrew Neel from Pexels This will seem like an obvious statement, but one of the most important activities you can be doing as a writer is to well…write. However, I find that there is an important aspect to writing that ought to be considered and its what motivates you to write. In the book Creating (affiliate link), the author makes an interesting point: Satisfaction is not necessarily a virtue, nor dissatisfaction a vice. Once you create something, you may be satisfied with the result, but this satisfaction can never last. You will desire new creations and satisfaction will come an ..read more

I share my initial thoughts on the new writing software Atticus and what I like and dislike about it as well as why I invested in it and would recommend other writers do so ..read more

Photo by RODNAE Productions from Pexels In August of 2020 I decided that I would switch my books from wide distribution to Amazon exclusive distribution. I made this choice because I wanted to see if there was an advantage in going exclusive with Amazon, and because in my opinion you can’t know for certain wide or amazon exclusive works better until you’ve tried both. I tried both and what I discovered is that while initially being in Kindle Unlimited made me a bit more money than what I was getting by going wide, it also created certain disadvantages with my marketing. I’ve decided as a resu ..read more

Picking the right technology for your writing and for marketing and any other needs you have is important, but you’re not going to use it all and you need to know how to pick the right technology. I share some of my thoughts on how to do this ..read more