Category: For Authors

Note: this article won’t give you all the details about every step, but it’s a good overview of a simple[…]

This isn’t really a list of individual things I’ve learned on Twitter but more like resources people on Twitter have pointed me to. I keep them bookmarked for when I need to learn what they have to tell me

Today I’m going to talk about the one spreadsheet I think every author should have: your book database. It doesn’t have to be in spreadsheet form, but somewhere you want a single file with all the pertinent info on all your titles.

Here are a few of the free tools I use most often as a self-published author.

One day I was trying to price a book at 99 cents for a sale, and Amazon wouldn’t let me. Why? Because the delivery charge for that book was so high that at 99 cents, my profit was negative. Between the delivery charge and Amazon’s normal cut, they were taking 100% of 99 cents. What the hell?

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