Tag: self-publishing
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How I Learned To Hate The VAT
My fellow self-published authors have no doubt already been bombarded by emails from Amazon in regards to changes in the VAT, but I thought I’d take a moment to tell my readers why prices are going to suddenly change on a number of books and how this change affects authors. These changes take place on…
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Independent Author’s Toolbag: Writing Groups
Hi there, my name is Kal and I write stuff. It sounds a bit like an introduction from an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting… because that’s what some writing groups feel like. And in a way, that can be good or bad. Writing groups are, at their root, about support. Writers, get together and read one another’s…
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Independent Author’s Toolbag: Publishing an Audiobook pt 3
This is the final post I’ll have as far as building an audiobook with Amazon’s ACX system. In the first two installments, I talked about the process, first enrolling/selecting your book, then choosing a narrator and finally proofing the narrated sections. You can see those two sections here and here. It was a time-consuming…
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Independent Author’s Toolbag: Publishing an Audiobook pt 2
This post is about the review processes and the work required to get it to the ‘finished’ stage. Read the previous post here for information about getting the process started. Any self-published author can tell you: self-publishing is hard. It’s not just getting the novel ready, it is also doing the edits, getting the cover…
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Independent Author’s Toolbag: Reviews and Book Sales
This post is as much addressed to readers as it is to authors. Many readers might feel that they are pestered, one might even say harassed, to provide reviews. Why is that? Well, it’s simple. As a reader, when I browse through books on Amazon or B&N, I’ll take a few minutes to glance at…
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Kal’s New Year of Writing
So, this is more of an update on my current writing schedule than anything else. I’m a bit behind on getting things out (for which I deeply apologize). On the other hand, I have the minor disclaimer that life has been extremely busy, between me transitioning from one duty station to another in the Army,…
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Independant Author’s Toolbag: Smashwords
As an independent author, I’m not setting in my basement cranking out books on a printing press. That would be cool, but it’s not really feasible (Trust me, I crunched the numbers). What I am doing is going through a variety of distributers to reach readers, mostly through ebooks. The nice thing about ebooks is…
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My National Write a Novel Month Writing Goals
Just a quick update on my National Write a Novel Month Writing Goals, or since the whole endeavor seems rather enamored of acronyms: NaNoWriMoWriGo. And if you can say that out loud without giggling, you might have something wrong with you. My goals for this coming month are to complete four stories. The first is a…
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