Is the Content Inc. Model a Good Fit for Author-Publishers? Short answer is “yes.” Long answer is “depends.” Depends if you get what he’s saying, understand it, and put it to work. The bottom line is that author-publishers are content merchants. They deal in content, no matter what form it’s in. Like screenwriters and song [...]

(Click here to download audio.) Publishing The Backwards Book The Scene You Face The situation that most starting authors have (and I’ve seen the same thing you’ve run into) is: How the hell do you get from here to there? You hear and (are constantly told) about these outrageously successful authors. But only a very [...]

(Click here to download audio.) Publishing The Backwards Book The Scene You Face The situation that most starting authors have (and I’ve seen the same thing you’ve run into) is: How the hell do you get from here to there? You hear and (are constantly told) about these outrageously successful authors. But only a very [...]

(Download this audio – Click Here.) You may not believe this, but the Classics you have read may be just as alive as you… (Considering authors as midwives to the life contained in a book.) Of course, we can call books “metaphors” for human existence, ways to get lessons from our subconscious. But what if [...]

(Download this audio – Click Here.) You may not believe this, but the Classics you have read may be just as alive as you… (Considering authors as midwives to the life contained in a book.) Of course, we can call books “metaphors” for human existence, ways to get lessons from our subconscious. But what if [...]

The Four Whys and Four Hows of Successful Self-Publishing After now over a decade of self-publishing, I thought to give you some hints about what you’re up against. It isn’t all that pretty, but it can be made to work. The first point is to quit taking anything seriously which is going around about this [...]

The Four Whys and Four Hows of Successful Self-Publishing After now over a decade of self-publishing, I thought to give you some hints about what you’re up against. It isn’t all that pretty, but it can be made to work. The first point is to quit taking anything seriously which is going around about this [...]

Reviving Frankenstein: Making PLR Publishing Profitable PLR is long from dead, although the amount of really bad stuff out there can make you wish it was. It still sells. I have a certain set of PLR ebooks which continue to sell through iTunes, Nook, and Kobo. (Amazon won’t take them, and GooglePlay is dead to [...]

Reviving Frankenstein: Making PLR Publishing Profitable PLR is long from dead, although the amount of really bad stuff out there can make you wish it was. It still sells. I have a certain set of PLR ebooks which continue to sell through iTunes, Nook, and Kobo. (Amazon won’t take them, and GooglePlay is dead to [...]

Download audio. The more authors get their content out to more people, the better chance they have of discovery. The more discovery, the better the book sales. I’ve long said that any author could and every author should “write once, publish to as many places, in as many formats as possible.” This is known as [...]