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No, It’s Not Your Imagination. Publishing Is Tough Now.

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If it feels like publishing is tougher than ever — it’s not your imagination. The market is saturated, algorithms are pay-to-play, and readers are trained to expect endless content for pennies. But that doesn’t mean you’re doomed. It means the game has changed. And smart indie authors are adapting by building direct reader platforms, redefining success on their own terms, and learning to market without selling their souls. The old paths are gone — time to blaze your own.

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Review of The Artisan Author by Johnny B. Truant

/ Attitude, Creativity, INDIE PUBLISHING, PRODUCTIVITY & ORGANIZATION, Prolificacy, Publishing & Production / 6 minutes of reading / 3 Comments

At its heart, this book offers a liberating proposal: don’t play the game as it’s currently defined. Walk away from algorithm worship, punishing release schedules, and the grind of selling at 99 cents to churn-hungry subscription readers. Instead, write what you want to write, at the pace that suits you, and charge a fair price for your work.

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A Simple Method to Figure Out If You Should Go Wide or Go KU

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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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A Going-Wide Perspective on the KU versus Wide Debate.

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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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