Episode 14 In this episode I talk to successful marketer and author, Ryan Hanley, about how he crowdfunded his book Content Warfare using the Publishizer platform. I begin by giving my own brief introduction to crowdfunding – that is running a campaign to raise money from a variety of people who get rewards based on their […]
Small Print Runs – an Interview with Jane Davis
In my first ever interview show, I talk to Jane Davis, award-winning author and print aficionado about her recent experiences getting a small print run of her books done to improve print quality and reduce costs.
I mention her recent post, Production: How to Use Short-run Printers as an Alternative to POD, on the Alliance of Independent Authors’ blog about Short-Run Printing – that is rather than using Print-On-Demand where each book is published individually as the sole way of providing paperback books.
Book Reviews, Dr Who and Mo Farah
In this episode I talk about book reviews – why they are important, how you can get them and why not to be too bothered when you don’t get good reviews.
Author Websites
Episode 11 In this episode I talk about Author Websites. Do you need an Author Website? No. Is it something worth thinking about setting up – definitely. You can set up things like e-mail subscriptions using services like mailchimp and have them host the sign-up page – you don’t need a website to collect e-mail addresses. […]
Side-Loading and Selling Direct
Episode 10 In this episode I cover two related topics – side-loading an eBook and selling eBooks direct from your own website. I first explain what side-loading is, that is the process of transferring an eBook file onto a device apart from a computer so you can read it elsewhere. As promised in the episode […]
Book Marketing
This week’s show is about book marketing. Yes I know I said I wouldn’t cover this, but felt that it needed some discussion. I have not been a stellar success with marketing – I’ve had some success pushing my Timeshock book in the past, but my current Magpies and Magic book isn’t doing that well at the moment.