Blogging Draws Attention to Your Book

We talk a lot on here about how to market and sell your self-published book. Here’s an idea that can help you interact with potential readers without even leaving your house (or your desk chair, for that matter): Have you ever considered blogging? Blogs are for anyone and everyone, and cover a wide-range of topics. [...]

How to be a ‘Highly Successful’ Self-Published Author

Bob Baker just wrote a great article for the Small Publishers Association of North America’s Newsletter, SPAN Connection. In “The 7 Attributes of Highly Successful Authors,” Baker explained various qualities he found esteemed authors have in common. From my point of view, his tips can be divided into 3 sections: Determination, Promotion, and Innovation. I’ll [...]

Have you ever wondered what to write about?

Many of us love to write, but when it comes to finding a topic, we stall. Yesterday, Mark Kurlansky, author of books such as Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Salt, and 1968, was in Indianapolis (he’s also a graduate of one of our local universities, Butler University). He shared some [...]