I’ll have a new podcast up for you guys in a couple of days (it’s already recorded — the next two are recorded in fact), but in the mean time, I have a guest post to help the new folks. The subject is formatting, and indie author Curtis Hox is here to give you some advice. These are the techniques

I know most of you guys are from all over the world, but I’m sure there are a few authors interested in e-publishing in my cloudy corner of it. For those in the Seattle/Everett area, I’m starting a digital publishing meetup. Seattle/Everett E-Publishing & Book Promotion Group If you’re not familiar with Meetup.com, it doesn’t cost anything to join, and

E-publishing should have its biggest year yet in 2012. Are you prepared? Today I discuss what’s been happening, especially with Amazon and the KDP Select program, as well as what’s helped me have my best earnings months for the last two months. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Show Notes: Lots of new e-readers for Christmas Discussing the Amazon

I’m coming up on my one year anniversary for self-publishing. In that time, I’ve published four novels (I had two written coming into this, but I did manage to write two full novels this year as well), two novellas, and some shorter stories. I haven’t become a bestseller or some phenom that the traditional publishers are drooling over, but I

I spent a good deal of time writing up a post on author branding over on my personal blog this week, so if you’re wondering, “What the Heck is Author Branding and How Do You Do It Anyway?” please check that article out. If you have any questions or comments on branding, feel free to ask me here or leave

When it came to cover art, I knew I didn’t have the artistic background to handle the project myself, so I hired someone. A lot of independent authors do seem to have artistic ability though, and they’re interested in doing their own cover art. Or maybe it’s just a matter of necessity because they can’t afford to hire someone yet.

Today’s show discusses pricing for ebooks and the POD (print on demand) paperbacks most of us will be dealing with when we self-publish. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Show notes: Paperback pricing Upfront costs are low with POD, so no need to pay for an entire print run or anything crazy. My POD publisher is CreateSpace, and I’ve

If you’ve chatted with any indie authors who are selling well (or even moderately well), you might have heard them say things like, “Sales really picked up when Amazon started recommending my book to people.” No doubt your ears perked up, and you wondered, “How do I get Amazon to recommend my book?” There’s a bit of a misconception that

If you’re an up-and-coming author, and you’ve just self-published your first book, you may be feeling overwhelmed with all of the promotion you’re supposed to do. Book blog tours, author interviews, establishing a presence on Facebook and Twitter, getting involved on sites like Goodreads or Shelfari, submitting your book to reviewers, building up a blog, starting a mailing list, etc.

In the first half of this post on online book promotion, we talked about what doesn’t work, and I shot down a lot of people’s marketing plans (yeah, sorry about that). Today, let’s talk about what does work. Again, I’ll be the first to admit that there’s no guarantee that what’s worked for me and for others will work for