Copywriter & ghostwriter: when you need help to sell something, or to write a book.
Today, self-publishing is big business. Wondering how many books Amazon has on its Kindle store? An estimate: 48.5 million. Amazon stopped making figures available several years ago, but it’s estimated that around a million new ebooks are published on the Kindle Store each year. With the rise of generative AI apps like ChatGPT, those numbers will increase. Self-publishing authors are … Read more
If you’re into self-publishing, chances are you’re considering the potential of low-content books. Firstly, what are they? From Amazon’s low content books page: A low-content book has minimal or no content on the interior pages. These pages are generally repetitive and designed to be filled in by the user. Common examples include notebooks, planners, journals, and other similar works. This … Read more
Are you writing short stories? If you aren’t, give them a try. Why? Many reasons: we’ve looked at the many advantages of bite-sized fiction here. The biggest advantage for me is that shorties bring visibility to novels I wrote years ago. If you want to promote older material in a story too, add a link to that published book in … Read more
Marketing can be challenging. You may market conscientiously, but struggle with fiction sales. Some books, for whatever reason, fail to launch. They fizzle. Why, oh why? No one knows. You love the book. Beta readers do too. Sadly, the book makes few sales, but you’re not ready to give up. You try commonsense solutions. Results? No. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, … Read more
As you may know, I mentor writers and authors. Although many of my students begin their careers by writing short fiction, few have goals for this short material. They look at short stories and novellas as practice material for their real goal: writing a novel. Of course, this is laudable. I’m a big fan of exercises and writing journals. The … Read more