3 Ways to Get Free (Or Almost Free) Training

Welcome to Toolbox Saturday where you’ll find tools for various things from writing to whatever. I’ve blogged about using a training budget before, but sometimes you may find your budget is hovering around $0. What do you do then? Spend time trolling through other author’s blogs, especially those who offer eBooks (and other types of [...]

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Marketing Monday: Multiple Streams Of Income

If you don’t already know how important having an ebook is, then perhaps you want to check out this post: Ebook Buyers: Can You Afford To Lose Them? For the rest of you, I’d like to make a quick suggestion: don’t stop with ebooks. On the Enneagram my husband is a 7 and I am a [...]

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4 Steps To Keep Your Original Files Safe When Creating An Ebook In IDCS4

The proof of my second book, Simply Prayer, finally arrived in the mail this week and I’m happy with it overall. I admit, though, that I had to beg my husband to read through it just to make sure the errors I found needed to be fixed or if I was just being a perfectionist. [...]

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3 Rules For Writing A Good Book Review

I blame academia for my inability to fully enjoy movies, television shows and books. Okay, so earning my BA in English isn’t the only reason I find it difficult to enjoy those things. A lot of it has to do with being an Independent Author and valuing well-written stories over flash. I cannot sit down [...]

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Ebook Buyers: Can You Afford To Lose Them?

I recently read a guest post by Chris Keys, author of The Fishing Trip – A Ghost Story and Reprisal!: The Eagle Rises!, about the difficulties of selling self-published books.  According to Chris, he’s only sold about a dozen books.  It seems typical of independent authors, but here’s the catch: I looked for Chris’ book [...]

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3 Ways To Boost Potential Book Sales Using Samples

I was recently browsing the blogosphere for eBooks on self-publishing and blogging when I came across Kristen Lamb’s eBook We Are Not Alone: The Writer’s Guide to Social Media. It sounds like a very interesting read based on the blurb at Who Dares Wins Publishing. Will I buy it? Not without a lot of thinking [...]

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3 Ways to Get Free (Or Almost Free) Training

I’ve blogged about using a training budget before, but sometimes you may find your budget is hovering around $0. What do you do then? Spend time trolling through other author’s blogs, especially those who offer eBooks (and other types of media) covering topics you’re interested in, and prowling over social media networks. There are three [...]

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5 Self-Publishing Lessons I Learned From My Toddler

It’s amazing, being a mother of a toddler, how much this little girl has taught me in just the 1 1/2 years she’s been with us. What’s even more amazing is that many of those lessons can be applied to self-publishing. Lesson #1: Anything worth doing takes time. My daughter has been a little slow [...]

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Marketing For The Indie Author

We have the flu at our house, so this will be just a short post (and probably a bit scattered in its organization, so I apologize).  I hope to write more on the subject at a later date.  Perhaps by then I’ll have tried all the techniques suggested in the following links and will be [...]

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