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Here’s Why You Should Add Backlist Maintenance To Your Indie Vocabulary

/ Uncategorized / 4 minutes of reading / 3 Comments

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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Even More Oh No!

/ Housekeeping / 1 minute of reading

The image, I’m afraid, is not a metaphor. Yesterday, full of energy and determination, I headed out into the garden to cut a new bed for our veggies this year. Forty minutes later, I found myself flat on my back, with my arm screaming at me. I had fallen, and tried to save myself with

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No post this week.

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The pinched nerve in my neck is getting the better of me. After the better part of a week spent in bed, I crawled to the desk today and several hours later have only just combed through all my emails. I’m in severe emergency mode, and still not at 100% capacity. I’ll see you next

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GIVE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY A BOOST IN 2022

/ Creativity, Discipline & Motivation, Housekeeping / 2 minutes of reading

I’m holding a series of one-off Mastermind-styled meetings on Zoom throughout January & February.  These will be structured meetings with a maximum of five people.   Each author in their turn will explain what problem(s) they want to solve, or what goals they want to reach this year, and the group will help figure out possible

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Why “Live Well”? – 2021 Edition

/ Definitions, Disaster Planning, Stoicism & Perspective / 7 minutes of reading

Why “Live Well”? – 2021 Edition This is the last of the “rebuilt” posts from 2017/2018, and also the last of the Definition posts.  It’s a hybrid, because the original post was built from two different sources.  I’ve amalgamated those sources instead of simply referring to them. ———– One of the things that happened recently

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Why “Sell More”? – 2021 Edition

/ Definitions, Distribution, Finance, Money Management & Frugality / 6 minutes of reading

Continuing the series of reviews on my earliest posts, as the industry has changed that much in four years. And so have I. This week, I’m looking at the January 19, 2018 post, ‘Why “Sell More”?’. ____ We all want to sell more. Even the purest literary snob appreciates selling more than before because that

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Why “Write More”? – 2021 Edition

/ Definitions, Housekeeping / 9 minutes of reading

Continuing the series of look-back-and-review posts, rebuilding the original definitions and “whys” I posted when I first started this blog, four years ago…because so much has changed since then! Today, I’m looking at the original post; ‘Why “Write More”?’, which I originally posted here on January 5th, 2018. ——– We’re moving toward the end of

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Why “Writer”? – 2021 Edition

/ Definitions / 4 minutes of reading

Following on in the revision series, where I’m examining all the original posts on the PIFW site and bringing them up to date, so they reflect the current state of the indie publishing scene.  Today, I’m reviewing ‘Why “Writer”?’, which first appeared on January 5, 2018. Productivity concerns are not the exclusive province of writers,

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