Aggressive versus Obnoxious in the Land of Publishing

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When I give presentations to writers I joke that the difference between being aggressive and obnoxious is that the aggressive writer has a good manuscript and the obnoxious one has a bad manuscript.  For over a decade that’s always gotten a good laugh. The only problem was, I wasn’t following my own advice. I’ve grown [...]

Kobo’s New Self-Publishing Platform Will Launch The End of June!!!

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Happy Sunday, WG2E-Land Peeps! Have y’all seen this announcement?! Kobo Announces Writing Life… Kobo made this announcement at BEA (Book Expo America) this week in NYC! And it means that they’ll soon be in the Self-Publishing Platform Biz right along with Amazon’s KDP and B&N’s Nook PubIt! Check out both their blog about it and [...]

Indie Epublishing: A Beginner’s To Do List

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Happy Monday, WG2E-land! Over the past couple of weeks, many of you superfab WG2E Peeps have mentioned that you are brand new to Indie Epublishing. First, we’re thrilled to Welcome You to The WG2E, and we know you’ll find a ton of waaay wonderful scoop here to help you along your new Indie Epub Journey. [...]

Amazon KDP Attention Required Tickets

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Happy Hump Day, WG2E-Land! Yesterday, I woke-up to the following email from Amazon KDP: Attention Required: B005HEEZXC Lip Glock Ticket 11359461‏ Dear Publisher, During a quality assurance review of your title,  we have found the following issue(s): Typo/formatting issues exist that may have been caused by an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) problem. For example, ol’ [...]

The Kindle Indie Bookstore has launched!!!

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Happy Hump Day, WG2E-Land! We all know it’s such an amazing time to be an author, right? Well, now, it’s also an even more amazing time to be a Kindle Indie Author! Why? The Kindle Indie Bookstore has launched! I first heard about the new Kindle Indie Bookstore on the Kindle Board Threads, but have [...]