Episode 24 As a homage to the great blog concept of the ‘mistakes post’, here I present to you my 3 biggest self-publishing mistakes I’ve made so far. Mistake 1 : Changing Genre My first big mistake was changing fiction genre from Time Travel Science Fiction (Timeshock) to Young Adult Fantasy (Magpies and Magic). […]
Philosophy
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.
Reasons to Self-Publish and Reasons Not
In this week’s episode I describe the multiple reasons to self-publish and the reasons to not.
Self-Publishing is Easy
In this first episode I start off with the slightly provocative statement:
Self-Publishing is Easy
Of course, what many people describe as Self-Publishing is not in any way easy. Writing a book is not easy – it is a lot of work. Marketing a book is not easy. But in my mind neither of these is the essence of Self-Publishing.
This podcast will primarily be based on looking at the core activities needed to self-publish a work. We won’t be talking (at least at the beginning) about how to write a book or how to market one. Both of them need to be done however a book is published. Most major publishers know how to market a book to print book-distributors, but not to readers, so however your book is published you will still need to do marketing to readers.