21 Days of Kickstarter

There’s about 16 days left and the panic is starting to set in. I’ve been at 30% pledged for the past few days and the marker isn’t moving. I’ve tried boosting my campaign videos on YouTube. I’m getting lots of views but not many click-throughs and no backers. I’ve LinkedIn. Lots of impressions, fewer engagements, […]

Kickstarter Diary Day 11

The last couple of days have been the hardest so far on the Kickstarter campaign. The first couple of days pledges were coming in throughout. Then come Saturday night the taps closed. Not a single pledge came in for two whole days. You may think I’m overreacting, but I keep on Kickstarters and the ones […]

Book Review: Lulu’s advice on Marketing your book

My rating: 3 of 5 stars Lulu is one of the big self-publishing companies that offers high quality products with clear pricing strategies. It has helped many authors achieve their dream of seeing their name in print and over the years has developed a series of tools and packages to add value to its services. […]

Book Review: Quit Your Day Job, by HP Mallory

Rating: 4/5 HP Mallory is one of the big success stories of the self-publishing world, having masterminded her own ascent to becoming a Kindle Bestselling Author. In this book, Mallory shares some of the secrets that helped her increase her reader base exponentially. The book features chapters on how to list your book properly […]

The Long Road: The Truth About Self-Publishing

Are you ready to hear the truth? Are you sure? It’s quite simple. For many of us writers out there, the only way we are going to see our work in print is through self-publishing. The problem is that only a few of us writers out there are suited to the rigors of self-publishing. This […]

A World Without Amazon?

What would a world without Amazon be like? Following on from a hearing on allegations of tax evasion by Amazon, Google and Starbucks, led by a committee of MPs in Britain, there have been calls for people in the UK to boycott all of the above. I’ve heard fierce debates on radio between critics, who […]

Book Review: Hollowland by Amanda Hocking

Hollowland is the first in what is probably going to be a trilogy that takes on the now tired zombie apocalypse sub-genre. If the author’s name sounds familiar, its because Amanda Hocking (amandahocking.blogspot.co.uk)is a member of a very small group of authors who has become a millionaire through self-publishing her writing, which is no mean […]