This is a guest post from the awesome author Michelle Saint-Germain. If you’re a writer and interested in writing for us, give us a shout. Are you launching a book soon or thinking about launching a book? If so, you might be looking into marketing strategies. Your book won’t sell if people don’t know it’s […]
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Choosing Keywords for Your Book on Amazon
Amazon lets you choose 7 different keyword phrases for each book. These keywords make it more likely that someone who is looking for your topic will discover that you have a book for sale. These keywords show up in Google as well as in Amazon’s search function. While your keyword selection isn’t of life and […]
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Choosing a Category for your Book on Amazon
While it’s not much more complicated than shoe-tying or crotch-scratching, there are a few tiny tricks that can help your book get more sales when it comes to choosing the right category. An extra book sale a day makes a huge difference when compounded over a time span of many years, so little things like […]
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Creating Agency Through Short Stories
One of the big questions that often come up when writing a new novel boils down to one simple word. “Why?” Why did Darth Vader become a Sith Lord? Why did Jack Torrance turn on his family? Why did the chicken cross the road? All of these questions need to have an answer even if […]
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How to Make Money Blogging
Most of the civilized world has no idea how people make money blogging. They’ve heard that some people make money blogging, sometimes a lot, but they aren’t really sure how. Unless you are an active internet entrepreneur of some kind, the ins and outs of making money as a blogger just don’t enter into normal […]
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How to Make Money as a Writer (For Real!)
There are many ways to make money as a writer. This article will focus primarily on independent, self-employed, internet-based writing. Basically, what we’re talking about here is making some money blogging and self-publishing books at vendors like Amazon and Lulu. First, decide how serious you are about this. Making a little extra sauce on the […]
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The Case For Taking Breaks From Writing
Write all the time! Write all the time! Write all the time, until you drop dead from the weight of all the money you’ll be making! This is probably the most common piece of writing advice you’ll see on the Internet today. Write all the time, because the best authors write all the time. The […]
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What is the Best Price for your Book on Amazon?
Most independent authors want to sell their book at the highest possible price. On Kindle, that’s basically $9.99. If you sell the book at a higher price than that, your commission goes from 70% to an abysmal 35%. Damn Amazon. Same thing happens when you go below $2.99. So Amazon thinks $2.99 to $9.99 is […]
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How to Start Thinking Like An Author!
Congratulations, you’ve written a book! But now what? Well, you’ve got to get it published, old chap! It you want to get it out into the world, that is. But more than simply getting published, being an author is a mindset. You have to get your mind into the right state so you can become […]
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Writer vs. Author: What’s the Difference?
A writer is anyone who writes something. Everyone knows that. But when it comes down to it, there is a lot of difference between a writer and an author. Someone who calls themselves an author has a completely different agenda than someone who calls themselves a writer. Don’t confuse yourself, or the folks who like […]
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