Go-To List for Helpful Indie Rescources

As Indies we are responsible for everything from writing the book to putting it out into the big wild world. This means editing, finding cover art, cover-designing, formatting, marketing, advertising, keeping up with what’s going on in the publishing world, and much, much more. So wouldn’t it be helpful to have a go-to list of [...]

Draft2Digital – A New Ebook Distributor in Town!

I know there are many different opinions about exclusive sales platforms like KDP Select, but personally, I don’t think it’s good for authors. An exclusive agreement means cutting out the competition, and while no competition will be good for the top dog, it’s not good for the little puppies at the bottom of the chain [...]

Selling Ebooks Direct From Your Website

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A while ago I was contacted by Joshua Cohen, who is the co-founder and Head of Business Development at Ganxy. He wanted to enable authors to sell their content direct from their website and was looking for input from authors to see how he could build something that would suit them. Since there’s been a [...]

Coming Out of the Closet…I’m Trans-Genre!

No, I’m not talking about some bizarre kind of sexual quirk! Today, I’m talking about expanding the number of genres you write in. One of the biggest benefits to being an indie author that gets talked about a lot is having the control to write exactly what you want and when. At the time I [...]

Engaging Readers Using Social Commentary in Ebooks

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TGIF, WG2E-Land! This past week, I’ve been finishing up my next Cozy Cash Mystery – The Royal Digs, which will be book four in this series. That process got me to thinking a lot about the social commentary elements that make up a big part of this series and my writing in general. For example, [...]