How To Self-Publish

In today's book publishing environment, all roads almost inevitably lead to a major decision: Do you try to go traditional publishing or do you strike it out on your own through self publishing?

Best-practices to smarten-up your online book marketing

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Are you in need of marketing guidance? These digital marketing strategies for self-published authors can get you started with your online book marketing.

So, you’ve written your book, and now the question pops up: “How much is this whole ‘publishing a book’ thing going to cost me?” If you’ve been dreaming of seeing your name on a...

Richard Nash seems to be everywhere lately. The current issue of Poets & Writers features a Q&A with this very busy editor/publisher/entrepreneur/idea-guy, and recent issues of the same magazine have given major coverage and...

Melissa Donovan recently wrote a post for The Creative Penn (a site you should all check out) listing the five most common mistakes writers make on their websites. They are: 1. No biographical information 2. No...

"When I was first trying to decide who I wanted to work with, I did quite a bit of research. I didn't want to have to figure out the cover art, and I sure didn't want to have to figure out the conversion, because I'm not a computer genius, I'm a story teller. I was so glad BookBaby was willing to work with me and really listen to my ideas."