If you're like me, you're always scouring for ways to help readers find and fall in love with your books. Do free ways to market books still exist? You bet. Here are NINE Free Ways to Market Books: BookBub: Claim your author page at BookBub. Whenever one of your books releases, BookBub will likely send a notice out to your followers. (Be sure to funnel as many followers to BookBub ahead of time … [Read more...] about Nine FREE Ways to Market Books
How To Create Book Covers Using Power Point
This is a super helpful guest post by Author Nancy Moser. Here she teaches you how to create book covers using Power Point. Here's Nancy: Whoever thought you could use Power Point to make book covers? It’s not hard at all. I used this method to create covers for 21 of my books. Here is how to create book covers using Power Point - Paperback PREP WORK: For print you need an ISBN. You can take … [Read more...] about How To Create Book Covers Using Power Point
Writer as Traveler: Where Do You Want to Go?
A couple of years ago, we took a magical trip to Italy. We drank macchiatos in Rome, stood awestruck beneath the statue of David, ate fresh "pesce" from the sea in Vernazza, and met long-lost family in the Trento region. If I wasn't inspired to write by the sights, sounds, and aromas of Italy, then I have no business even trying. Know what I mean? Writer as Traveler One afternoon, our … [Read more...] about Writer as Traveler: Where Do You Want to Go?
Indie Writers Group: Should You Join One?
The bravest souls understand the fears that drive them, and they attack those fears. Relentlessly. ~ Max, from Sweet Waters. A reader posted that quote to my Facebook author page a few years ago without further commentary. I was intrigued. Fears drive all of us, but do we realize it? And if we do understand our fears, do we fight off those that keep us from achieving our goals? Or … [Read more...] about Indie Writers Group: Should You Join One?
How to Publish a Book on Amazon: A Quick Start Guide
In this quick-start guide, I teach you how to publish a book on Amazon. (Note: as of Feb 2024, I am updating this guide. If you sign up, you will receive the revised version in your inbox soon!) This post assumes you have written, edited, and proofed your book. In other words, you are ready to GO. If you’re not there yet, no worries! Go ahead and read through the guide, because you’ll be needing … [Read more...] about How to Publish a Book on Amazon: A Quick Start Guide
Indie Author Advice, Inspiration, Success: Welcome!
Hey, friends ~ I took a brief hiatus from the blog that turned out to be, well, not so brief after all. What started with a plan to sell the house and move from one coastal community to another ended up being FOUR moves in less than a year. I know - crazy! Now that we're settled - even if not completely unboxed - I'm back to writing about one of my favorite things in the world (hint, hint): indie … [Read more...] about Indie Author Advice, Inspiration, Success: Welcome!