When it comes to running an indie author business, every dollar counts. Between Facebook ads, travel for events, and software subscriptions, those costs add up fast. But here’s a little secret—if you’re not leveraging credit card rewards, you could be leaving money (or points!) on the table. While most of us think of credit card […]
the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), who have begun to provide annual surveys and reports on indie earnings and other demographics.
Just recently, they released their 2024 Big Data Drop. It’s an overview and summary of various industry reports, showing trends, changes, and other datapoints.
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The interview I did with Joanna Penn is now live on The Creative Penn.
The Creative Penn podcast now live. Read More »
J. Michael Straczynski’s Income Advice For Writers Not just for hard times. Are you putting all your eggs in one creative basket? In Becoming A Writer, Staying A Writer, J. Michael Straczynski spoke of the Three Legged Stool Theory, proposing that all writers need at least three streams of revenue and three streams of creative expression,
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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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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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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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When you write and release lots of books, the costs associated with publishing those books increases at the same scale…or does it? How do you handle the costs of writing and publishing lots of books? Economies of Scale. When you’re producing many books, there are economies of scale available to you that two-books-a-year authors can’t
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