Authors, Do You Resist the Idea of Being a Brand or Having a Brand for Your Books?
What do you, as an author, promise your readers and customers? What are you promising a fan every time they pick up one of your books?
15 Types of Income to Create or Refine a Part-Time or Full-Time Author Business Model That Works for You
All authors can create holistic, rewarding cottage industries, sidelines, part-time or full-time businesses around their book/s, their knowledge, their experiences, and their author status.
Big-Picture Ways to Think About Marketing Fiction: Analyzing One's Own Reading/Book Buying Habits
What I discovered was eye-opening at the curiosity level, but also valuable for my thinking and planning as a publisher, and for you as a writer or author.
Big-Picture Ways to Think About Marketing Fiction: Unexpected Places Your Readers Spend Money
... in swapping stories with fellow small publishers and indie authors, I eventually happened upon the secret of the apple orchard.
Big-Picture Ways to Think About Marketing: Vitamins, Spaghetti, and Ships
Throw them all out into the world as your time, energy, and budget allow and see what sticks—which methods, which messages, which audiences.
Big-Picture Ways to Think About Marketing Fiction, Part 1
Where are these advance fans supposed to come from?
Making Money
Buy more hats. You'll need them. You’re an artist, a writer, a creator, a professional, and a business person.
A Journey of Playing the Numbers: Finding a Home for Your Fiction Manuscript
A way to play the numbers game that is publishing in a confined amount of time knowing that you gave the best options your best shot.
