Category Archives: independent publishing

Platform Building and Community Building to Sell Your Book (And Build Your Brand)

Whether you self-publish, work with a small publisher, or get a book deal with a major publisher, you’re going to need a platform to get the message out about your book and your work. When it comes to how to … Continue reading

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Kindle Will Be Publishing Works That Are Too Short for a Book, Too Long for an Article

Often, potential clients will tell me they’ve written a book, but when they tell me it runs 30,000 or 40,000 words, I have to break the news that they’ve written an animal that’s too long for an article and too … Continue reading

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Self-publish on Apple’s iPad

Now you can self-publish your book on Apple’s iPad, increasing your readership. See the article here. I believe that more and more, authors will self-publish and the stigma of “vanity publishing” will give way to the prestige of being a … Continue reading

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Hay House now has a self-publishing arm

Hay House has announced it has a new imprint for self-published (or shall we say independent?) authors: Balboa Press. Authors that choose to publish with Balboa Press authors will have access to Hay House publicists, for a hefty fee, and … Continue reading

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