How Authors can get the Most out of Marketing: Calculating Marketing ROI Marketing is often uncharted territory for authors. For independent authors though, calculating marketing ROI is one of the most important components of producing a successful book. Creating the book is what most authors are best at, but it’s only half of the equation. Even for major […]
The Keys of Self-Sufficiency for the Modern Authorpreneur
The Keys of Self-Sufficiency for the Modern Authorpreneur Self-sufficiency is one of the main reasons an Author may end up deciding to go the indie route. The ability to have control over your own timeline, creativity, and profits is a tantalizing prospect. Even in today’s traditional publishing model, the trend has moved toward authors taking […]
8 Tips for Authors to Create an Awesome Private Writing Space
8 Tips for Creating the Master Home Lair for Your Private Writing Space Whether you’ve been eyeing that room at the end of the hall that’s been collecting junk for years or have decided to leave a traditional office atmosphere, creating your master home lair for your private writing space shouldn’t be a chore. Embracing […]
The Proactive Author: What We Do When We Need Book Reviews
The Proactive Author: What We Do When We Need Book Reviews So you wrote a book. You suffered and toiled over it and got it to publication. Time to sit back and relax, right? Not so fast. Your book’s online page looks a little bare without those shiny gold stars and comments underneath. […]
Crowdfunding is a game changer for Authors
Crowdfunding is a game changer for Authors In less than a decade, the landscape of publishing has changed dramatically. That’s good news for small publishers and independent authors who have been able to find alternative ways of publishing outside of the traditional models. Still, at the beginning, it was difficult for authors to find […]
Why Valentine’s Day is your Favorite Holiday if you’re a Romance Author
Why Valentine’s Day is a Romance Author’s Favorite Time of Year The settings, the characters, the time period may all change, but the universal appeal of a Romance novel is always the same — the love story. This timeless category has endured through time and across genre. Whether set in a fantasy world or […]
How to Embrace Your Quirks In Order to Be a More Successful Author
How to Embrace Your Quirks In Order to Be a More Successful Author We’re not sure exactly what it is in some of us that drives us to create. We do know that this compulsion to mold narratives, develop characters, invent lives is not exactly normal. If it were, there’d be a lot more of […]
10 Indie Authors We’re Expecting Big Things From in 2016
10 Indie Authors We’re Expecting Big Things From in 2016 Though enthusiasm for our New Year’s resolutions might be fading, there’s always a new book to look forward to. Every good writer is also a voracious reader. Why? Because reading other writers helps us strengthen our own craft. Also, we can’t get enough of […]
9 Things We’ll Finally Get Right This Year as an Authorpreneur
9 Things We’ll Finally Get Right This Year as an Authorpreneur Happy 2016 Authorpreneurs! We made a good go of it in 2015. Some days were certainly more productive than others. Distractions seemed to lurk in every corner. Feelings of fatigue, anguish, or even genuine concern for our well-being. Artistic ambitions can be overbearing, […]
Getting Your Affairs In Order: Retirement Planning for the Reluctant-to-Retire Writer
Retirement Planning for Authors If you take a look around the traditional workplace these days, you see more and more people working up until the point where they just can’t physically complete their job anymore — whether it be due to physical illness, simple old age, or obsolescence. Retirement is a subject on our minds, though […]