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A Bad Question That Leads to Good Insights

June 9, 2022 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

Here’s a common question that came up in a Facebook group earlier this week. It is more profound than it might seem: “Why should people buy your book and not your competitor’s?” My longer answer: This question completely misunderstands the nature of 95% of the book industry. This kind of competition is real and intense […]

Filed Under: Blog, Creative Entrepreneurship, Publish Wisely Tagged With: indie publishing, publish wisely, self-publishing

Kickstarter: Mighty Ally of Indie Authors

May 4, 2022 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

Brandon Sanderson's surprise Kickstarter book launch raises $41 million

Brandon Sanderson’s surprise Kickstarter book launch raises $41 million! It passed $4m in the first week… because Brandon did it right. (And he’s already a superstar author, but still, he did it right) Not just indie authors, but everyone in the author community is talking about how to sell directly to readers. After the mind-boggling […]

Filed Under: Blog, Creative Entrepreneurship, Publish Wisely

Why do you do it?

March 14, 2022 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

There are only two fundamental reasons for writing anything. It’s either therapy or impact. If you are writing for impact, you are writing primarily for others. If you are writing for therapy, you are writing primarily for yourself. Anything written specifically for impact must focus on, and can only be judged by, its intended audience and the impact […]

Filed Under: Blog, Writing Tagged With: Creativity, fiction writing, purpose

Print-On-Demand Hardcover Books are Easier Than Ever

September 28, 2021 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog, Creative Entrepreneurship, Publish Wisely

It takes a lot to make me angry. This did…

September 9, 2021 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

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” […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: academic writing, fiction writing, writers as humans

AudioBookCup is a piracy ring

August 31, 2021 by Nic Nelson Leave a Comment

Audiobook Cup logo, as of 2021

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog, Publish Wisely Tagged With: indie publishing

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