Resources and tips for the self-published author.

  With the change in weather comes a change in publishing.

Will Paperbacks Survive the Ebook Boom? In a word, yes. We love technology. We love that we can carry hundreds of books around on our pocket-sized device, and that convenient access to fantastical story worlds is not going anywhere. Ebooks are here to stay. But paperbacks are not going anywhere, either. Think about what we

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Thought I’d share some of my favorite publishing tips of 2015 for you to enjoy and make 2016 even better for you. We’ve organized a self-publishing roadmap to guide you through your publishing journey.

We’re excited to have Brady Kroupa, Director of Product for ebooks at Blurb, as our guest on Tuesday’s #IndieChat on 12/9/14.

Angela Ackerman, writing coach and co-author of the bestselling resource The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Expression, will be our guest  on Tuesday’s #IndieChat on 3/18/14.

This week on #indiechat Shelli Johannes @SRJohannes, Ali Cross @Ali_Cross, and the rest of the #indierecon team will be talking about the self-pub online free conference called #indierecon.

This week on #indiechat Olivia Koski from The Atavist  will be our guest. Olivia will be talking about The Atavist’s new multimedia ebook production tool called @Creatavist. 

Our friends over at Write or Read just launched their subscription startup site for e-books. We had a chance to check it out and it’s pretty slick!

At almost every author event, the question that always comes up is “How do I do a signing for my digital book?” There are two nifty tools that I always recommend.

One of the many joys of self-publishing is the ability to control anything and everything about your book. The full control self-publishers have is a great blessing but it can be a problem; when you control everything alone how do you know what size your cover should be, which online distributors work best for you,

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