Why Resets Are a Necessary Part of Your Writing Schedule
I haven’t posted here in a couple of weeks, and there’s a good reason for that. Actually, there are several.
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Publishing & Production
Why Now Is the Best Time to Be an Indie Fiction Writer
Jane Freidman, at her blog just a few days ago, wrote a post, “Like It or Not, Publishers Are Licensing Books for AI Training—And Using AI Themselves.”
The post is a refreshingly blunt take on how AI is settling into the publishing industry. I will leave it to Jane to explain how, even for indie authors, there is new money to made from the AI phenomenon, if you’re smart and wrangle your contracts.
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Cleaning Up Your Manuscript for The Best Formatting Results
Slightly off the beaten track today. At Stories Rule Press, we offer a formatting service to authors: Give us your manuscript and we will produce validated ePub and Mobi files that you can upload to the retail sites without issue. We’ll also do print layouts. But recently there’s been a rash of manuscripts come in
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How To Calculate Pages in an Ebook
Very rarely do I need to calculate the number of pages in an eBook. Most of the time, indie authors only care about the size of the file, and the number of words in the story itself (sans front and back matter). Besides, calculating pages in an eBook is an exercise in frustration; depending on
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A Productive Indie Book!
A Productive Indie Book! Last month, I took a bit of a break, and also mentioned that I was working on something that I would tell you about soon. As the image, above, has probably told you, that something is the first PIFW book. I’ve been getting back to a more productive writing schedule, and
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Platform Will Save You
Platform Will Save You When Not Much Else Still Works Kristine Katheryn Rusch recently spoke about the now-gone star system in publishing, and how niche and micro-niche publishing is taking over, in her post “Business Musings: Stars“. Kris intends to write a follow up post, but as I write this post on PIFW, it still
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SAAS and your wallet – and alternatives
SAAS and your wallet – and alternatives Don’t Let This Convenience Suck Up Your Revenue I fell for this with a loud bang when it first came out. It’s an attractive, easy option that looks ever so pretty, but when you sit down and do the math…wow! What is this seductive beauty? Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS.
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Is Complexity Bias Stopping You From Publishing (More)?
Is Complexity Bias Stopping You From Publishing (More)? I get a lot of emails, and I see a lot of posts on author groups from new indie authors, or authors going indie for the first time, or authors who are going wide for the first time, implying or flat-out stating that indie publishing is incredibly
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What is an Author Platform and Why You Need The Best You Can Build
I’ve referred to author platform a lot on this blog. Especially lately, with the industry in such a state of churn and evolution. But I’ve never properly defined what an author platform is. So today, let’s nail down exactly what I mean by “author platform”, and pull together all the reasons why you need to
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Fracturing Social Media
A quick post today, which bounces off my post earlier in the year, “What Your 2023 Business Year will Look Like…Maybe“ Anne R. Allen, who is an expert in author blogging, recently ran a post on her site, “Why Blogging is Essential in the Era of Fragmenting Social Media.” The very last point in her
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