Episode 18 In Today’s show I have a mild rant – **sorry** – about a newspaper article in a UK Sunday newspaper, the Sunday Times. Sadly most of the actual article is behind a paywall (that is you have to pay to read the whole story) online, but you can get the gist from the summary here. […]
Podcast Episodes
Mailing Lists
Episode 17 In this week’s show I discuss mailing lists (well strictly speaking e-mail lists) using services such as Mailchimp and AWeber. As I was struggling to get my own e-mail giveaway working (due to some kind of javascript issue the sign-up form didn’t work) I thought that I had never actually discussed e-mail lists […]
Inside an ePub
Episode 16 In today’s show (released on International Podcast Day!) I talk about how you go about manually editing an ePub file. It is a very geeky technical show, but keep listening, I try not to make it too dull. I’ve created a free ePub guide to editing an ePub (which you can get here) which explains this […]
News, Affiliates and Perma-free
Episode 15 This week’s show I cover some recent news about Flipkart in India not being available through Smashwords any more; the fact Kindle Unlimited is now available in India and that the Oyster e-book subscription service is shutting down. I also talk about affiliates and why as a self-publisher you might want to become […]
Crowdfunding with Ryan Hanley
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.