DIY Publishing self-publishing
April 5, 2023
I’m sure that most people reading that blog title will think it’s click bait. It’s not, it is a genuine question. I’m asking this based on an article by Mark Williams I read this morning titled, Amazon’s Dismantling of its Book Operations Continues. Mark is not someone to yell “the sky is falling.” He’s been […]
December 11, 2022
An Audio recording of this post is available below. If you wish to download it to your computer, tablet, or phone, RIGHT CLICK on the audio and select SAVE to your device. It is an MP3 file. So, it will open in whatever APP you use to listen to audio music or speech. Every December […]
March 15, 2022
What genre am I? This is a question I hear all the time from new writers and even seasoned writers who aren’t seeing sales in the genre they selected. With what appears to be thousands of selection on Amazon, and admittedly close to 5,000 on BISAC it is quite confusing. So, I created a handout […]
November 3, 2021
This is an updated post from one I wrote on a guest blog six years ago when someone made a comment that anyone not currently raising children couldn’t write children’s books or YA books because they wouldn’t have the right “voice” for it. Of course, I completely disagreed. As I begin writing a Middle Grade […]
FOMO is the “fear of losing out”. In the era of social media, advertising, and ease of getting information in front of you, it is easy to FEEL that there is too much you have to do to make it in this world and that the publishing world is changing too fast to stay on […]
October 28, 2021
Recently, someone shared a Substack post titled No One Will Read Your Book (and other truths about publishing) As you can imagine it got a lot of interaction on the discussion board where it was shared. Very successful writers, average writers, and those who barely make a living all chimed in about how hard it […]
June 26, 2021
UPDATE: June 26, 2021 When I wrote this blog back in April I was working on a secret project around this entire NFT option. Specifically, I had been invited to be in the first group of authors to offer a Limited Edition digital NFT Book in a new marketplace that catered to both authors and […]
May 30, 2021
The independent publisher has several possibilities. The one you chose depends on your skills, the amount of work you want to do with the process, and the money you wish to spend. Im going to break this into two sections: 1)Narration; and 2) Distribution. In a later post I’ll talk about Marketing. NARRATION You can […]
March 16, 2021
“Some has stolen my story!” is something I hear frequently from new authors who obsess over whether to submit to literary contests before a book is published. Or they obsess over whether to submit to Netgalley or send ARCs to potential reviewers. If those decisions aren’t enough, they also worry about all the pirate sites […]
January 3, 2021
Note: I originally wrote this article for my annual changes in publishing post on Romancing the Genres that I’ve written every year for a decade. It published December 5, 2020. I’ve made some changes to that article, particularly in the introductory remarks and some additional comments on how authors and publishers might capitalize on these […]
December 30, 2020
For 2021, I will be featuring responses to questions I often field on other forums or that are sent to me here at POV Author Services. To end 2020, I’m answering a question from Pat McNees (Thank you, Pat!) who maintains a website called Writers and Editors with lots of articles and links to information […]
June 16, 2018
I’ve often talked about my parents in my blog or social media posts. I am very fortunate in that, despite not having a lot of money, I was brought up to believe I could do anything, be anything, if I worked hard enough. That’s the American dream isn’t it? And I did work hard. I […]
