Helping independently published authors get started doing their write thing…
You may know that Amazon has a cool feature for Kindle books where you can embed a preview right into a website page or blog post page. Now, on a site like this one, hosted on WordPress.com, embedded material like that is not supposed to work because of the secure environment here. I heard of …
Continue reading An Embedding Experiment I Hope Does Not Go Awry
Here we go again with Amazon's misguided hammer...
This is just one of many stories swirling around the indie publishing community today and for the past week about Amazon's apparent crackdown on scammers. In a blog post from yesterday, indie published author Adam Dreece tells his story which would strike a lot of fear in anyone, but particularly someone whose books are enrolled …
For a really long time, I'd put off creating paperback versions of my books. Conventional wisdom was that having them was really for a lark, and that very few people ever sold an appreciable number of them. I'm going to get the chance to see whether they are correct about this or not, because as …
Continue reading Putting the Paperback Book Theory to the Test!
Last week I had mentioned that I was switching out my permafree book. Well, since then, The Inventor's Son: The Beginning is reverted back to a paid book on all sales channels (and I resumed putting it on Scribd and 24Symbols), and now I have gotten The Inventor's Son free on all sales channels besides …
Continue reading A Quick Update on the Status of The Inventor’s Son
Back before I published my first book, I had the idea that I would make a special book that I could offer for free. The Inventor's Son: The Beginning was the book that evolved into what we in the indie publishing world like to call a "permafree" book. That is, it's a book that anyone …
Continue reading Summer’s Nearly Over, So It’s Time For Some Changes
It's a collection of the first three books in The Inventor's Son! I have the "Boxed Set" Image for all sales outlets except Apple, on account of the fact that they don't like the "3d boxed set" look. It should start appearing for sale over the weekend at Amazon, Google Play Books, and between Monday-Tuesday, January 25th …
Continue reading A Quick Announcement: I’ve Got a Boxed Set!
There is a difference between uploading a book for immediate publication as opposed to doing a pre-order.
I've decided to put The Explorer's Son on pre-order at Amazon. I will get the pre-orders set up on the other retailers tomorrow. The actual release date will be December 8, 2015!
I'm starting to notice a few different issues that indie authors like myself are contending with.
SB James, Doing the Write Thing 