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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
Want to achieve a creative goal? The goal can be anything. It may be: To win a top-tier client in an industry (freelance writing.) Publish a series of novels (novelist.) Develop an online class (although you’re new to teaching, you have knowledge and hard-won insights to share.) After setting a creative goal for a project late last year, I haven’t … 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
When you write fiction, it’s a complex activity. How could it not be? You want to your reader to believe in your story. You want it to feel real—so real in fact, that he becomes one or more of your characters. Sometimes we can manage that. Often however, we fall far short. It’s hard to get the story in our … Read more
Are you a self-publishing author? Here’s a big tip: start preparing for Christmas holiday sales NOW. It’s July; we’re in the second half of the year. Christmas goodies appear in stores early: consider having your fiction and nonfiction selling by October, at the latest. Speaking of October, if you write fiction, consider writing a few horror stories for Halloween. I … Read more