As of September 21st, we can now offer our KDP self-published books in hardcover, not just softcover! This is the first major tangible improvement to KDP since they acquired CreateSpace’s best-in-class print-on-demand capabilities, expanding “Kindle Publishing” from ebooks alone to both ebooks and paperbacks… and now, finally, hardcover! Of course, this is still POD, so […]
It takes a lot to make me angry. This did…
I write a lot of answers on Quora (I was a Top Writer in 2018, and have kept contributing since then, but Quora grew bigger and bigger and I became a smaller and smaller fish in comparison). I like answering questions that others find exasperating, trying to do justice to the curiosity behind the “dumb” […]
AudioBookCup is a piracy ring
I don’t spend much time on social media (I might be the only person in America who really should spend more time on it), but I’m glad I was checking notifications this morning. Tom Lennon posted this in a private Facebook group for audiobook narrators about five hours ago. I’ve put Tom’s words in italics […]
The Elusive Logline
At a recent PRESS session, an author was trying to hammer their book description down into a proper logline. This can be more challenging than it might seem, especially because a book description and a logline differ in a subtle but fundamental way. A book description is just that: it describes, to a greater or […]
Selling Your Book In Person: Keep It Simple and Friendly
As vaccination rates are rising and folks are preparing again for in-person large-scale festivals, conventions, conferences, and symposia, I am starting to hear questions about how to sell books at a book table at one of these events. There are several important things to consider, but here’s one question from a person who just discovered […]
What do you want from me?
I’m thrilled to be one of the speakers at BookFest 2021, coming up in April 17-18, and Black Chateau Enterprises has asked me an interesting question. I have some ideas, but I thought I’d turn to you for your input. Their question to me is: “Do you have something free to offer BookFest attendees and […]
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