From Joe Konrath. Your ebooks function much like a garden. One rare occassions, a plant will thrive with little help from you. Others may whither and die no matter how much help you give them. But the majority need to be constantly tended. Planted, watered, fertilized, weeded, pruned, mulched, replanted, harvested. In other words, lots
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This is from Russell Blake, a pseudonym for Craig Osso, a 52-year-old retired home developer who has sold close to 450,000 copies of the 25 books he published in the last 30 months. The man has made over a million bucks at this. 1) Books Sell Themselves. No, sweetie, they don’t, at all, and never did. That’s why
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From publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin: For a number of reasons, the belief here is that most of the time for most authors who can get a deal with an established and competent house, their best choice is to take it. Sounds reasonable, but then we get to the money quotes. The strength of the traditional
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In The Business Rusch: Generational Divide Kris Rusch points out that the new on-demand and long-tail market for books has changed the duration of the opportunity a book has to be successful, but that it seems the industry still isn’t recognizing this in how they measure success. The problems come from the fact that those of
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“When you are really and seriously stuck and you hate everything you’ve written, BINGE READ.” That’s from super author Maya Lassiter. If you recall, she did a great guest post here on her creative process. I love this technique for getting unstuck. When you binge read (or watch), not only do you see other options that
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