This post is a bit of an outlier, although it does have some relevance to productivity and prolificacy. I read Advantage: Harnessing Cumulative Advantage In The Winner Takes All Publishing Market in one sitting. It’s dense. It has charts and graphs and footnotes. It is not prescriptive (you have to deconstruct it carefully to figure […]
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Brace yourselves. This is a post that is only indirectly related to productivity, but I am sure that as indie fiction writers, you’ll be interested in this. I’ve been hinting and referencing all the heavy duty work I’ve been doing the last few weeks, and now I can point to something solid and say “there,
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You may recall I’ve said a few times lately that I’m a bit busy. I’ve tried not to harp on that, but I have been busy. I’d only wish I’d understood the scale of the project I was taking on when I got into it. I might have planned a little better. Instead, I’ve been
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The debate over whether indie authors should go “wide” (all retailers, everywhere) or KU (exclusive to Amazon and subscribed to the Kindle Unlimited program) rages even more heavily these days. I’ve recently had experience with both sides of the fence, and wrote about it for Hidden Gems Books. The post appeared on their blog
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Mark Coker at Smashwords just put out a mid-year set of predictions for the “post-pandemic” publishing world. I feel he’s maybe a little premature, as I suspect the pandemic will be around for most of this year—we’re still to be hit with the second wave (which is just starting up in China). But the post
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I recently received an email from an author who picked up on a passing reference of mine, and asked me to explain how I copy and paste my Word files into Publisher to produce print editions. I’ve created a video that walks you through the basic process: Resources mentioned: Microsoft Publisher Microsoft Office Suite
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This is Part 1 of an informal series about Pen Names. See Part 1 or Part 2 or Part 3 or Part 4. There are many authors who write under one pen name (only) for privacy reasons. That is not the question I am answering here today, for privacy and security are very good reasons for writing under a different name.
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Eight months ago (an ice age in the indie world), I appeared on Dave Chesson’s Kindlepreneur podcast, talking about the pros of using a wide distribution, while a KU author discussed the pros of the KU program. Dave invited me back to talk in far greater details about going wide and that interview is out
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A short post I wrote for Kobo Writing Life just popped up on their blog, here, entitled “How Going Wide Helped Me Quit My Day Job”. It’s not completely unrelated to productivity. As David Gaughran recently pointed out in his post: “A Tale of Two Marketing Systems,” Wide authors and KU Authors are beginning to show
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