Episode 21 In today’s show I interview Debbie Young, the blog editor of the Alliance of Independent Authors blog (Alli), fiction author and currently writing a book for the Alli about getting your book into book stores. How should an indie author approach a bookstore to see if they will stock their book? Where should they […]
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Legal Issues with Helen Sedwick
Episode 19 In this week’s show I interview legal expert Helen Sedwick (author of the Self-Publisher’s Legal Handbook ). I ask her a variety of questions about legal matters to do with self-publishing, namely: Do you NEED to register copyright for a book in the US? What benefits do you get for registering a copyright? How […]
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.