The One Thing You Cannot Do When You Hit The Dip With Your Novel Do This Instead I’ve written (plus finished and published) over 120 novels, and this is a pattern I’ve detected. Around the one third mark, usually not long after you get into the second act, you’ll be convinced the story is garbage […]
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3 Reasons Why You’re Giving Up on Indie Publishing Too Soon And 2 reasons why you SHOULD walk away. I’m an old hand at indie publishing (11 years, last March), so I’m kinda puzzled by the attitude I keep stumbling over…well, everywhere. Zulie Rane, in her Medium article, “5 Uber-Popular Passive Income Streams That Aren’t Worth the
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Google Has Made a Brilliant Strategic Move Why Indie Authors Should Capitalize on It In late April this year, Google Play Books announced the launch of an AI Narrated Audiobook beta program for indie authors and publishers using their retail platform. There’s a few conditions attached. Surprisingly few. It was an incredibly smart move. Here’s why.
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One Key To Keeping Your Genre Fiction Plots Tight and Your Reader Flipping Pages Hack through Every Plotting Structure, including The Hero’s Journey You can go crazy trying to find and use the ideal plotting structure. Three act structure. Four act structure. Save the Cat. Story Physics. Story Grid. Even the venerable Hero’s Journey. Every guru says
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Are You Indie Publishing Fiction? Will You Choose KU or Wide? 9 aspects that will make you rethink your options. The Wide vs KU Debate has been around for a great many years. Indie authors used to step to either side with their sleeves rolled up, righteousness steaming from their ears. Monica Leonelle wrote a great post
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I’ve spoken about Backlist Maintenance being a “thing” that productive indie fiction writers must worry about. It is an invisible non-issue for newer indie authors with only a handful of titles. If you have a dozen or more titles, then you know what a time sink it is to, say, scramble to update your bio
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Indie published book sales are slumping right now, for everyone. Even if COVID-19 isn’t completely in our rear-view mirrors, most of the world is moving out of the severe restrictions we’ve suffered through for two years. That relaxation coincided with the arrive of spring. Now it’s summer, and everyone who turned desperately to reading fiction
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A couple of days ago, I explained why “Backlist Maintenance” should be an ongoing task for indie authors. Only, what is it? Put simply; you review aspects of your older books to ensure they’re up-to-date and correct. There are various ways of organizing these reviews to make the process efficient, which I will cover in
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I wince every time I see this structure in fiction. Do you use it? The structure goes like this: Walking to the window, he watched the seagulls soar over a silvered sea. An innocuous sentence? Actually, it’s a howling clunker of sentence, and I’ll explain why in a minute. For now, I want to draw
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Authors often raise their brows when I mention “Backlist Maintenance”. Maintaining your backlist doesn’t sound sexy. For authors with only a handful of releases, backlist maintenance isn’t a thing. But when you get into the realm of 20 or 50 or (like me) 120+ published titles, backlist maintenance becomes critical. Here’s why. Indies make money
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