Holiday book marketing is not about inventing a Christmas sale and hoping. Q4 is the stretch when readers are actively buying: gifts, holiday-credit ...
Editing is usually the largest single cheque an indie author writes, and it buys something you cannot fully judge until the work is done. That is exactly ...
Most indie author mistakes don’t feel like mistakes at the time. They feel like moving fast, saving money, or trusting the person who seemed to know more ...
The choice between indie vs traditional publishing, with small press sitting somewhere in the middle, gets argued like a values debate. It’s really a ...
The question of Facebook ads vs Amazon ads gets asked as if one has to win. Neither does. They do different jobs, and running the wrong one for where your ...
Almost every author I talk to asks some version of the same question about their own numbers: is this good? They have a sales figure, a review count, a ...
Roughly nine in ten of the authors I work with are neurodivergent. That is not a coincidence, and it shapes how I build every system I hand over. Most ...
You finally set up direct sales. Your own storefront, your own reader data, no retailer taking a third of every book. Then someone drops the phrase "EU ...