Link of the Week – Gumroad
I admit, I find this week’s link intriguing. But I have no experience with the site. Gumroad is “for independent writers, designers, game developers, musicians, artists, filmmakers, and anyone...
View ArticleLink of the Week – Indie Vs. Trad Publishing
There was quite an exchange last week On the blog A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing between mystery, horror, thriller author Joe Konrath, who just so happens to be a huge advocate and pioneer for...
View ArticleLink of the Week – Smashwords + Overdrive
For those of you who are Indie authors or are considering going indie… Smashwords has now teamed up with Overdrive. Overdrive is the distributor of ebooks to 90% of the libraries in the US. For someone...
View ArticleLink of the Week – 2EPUB
Free. We like free, don’t we? Formatting. We hate formatting, don’t we? I stumbled across this site that is a free (we like) ebook format converter – for us – for free. Did I mention free formatting?...
View ArticleActive Table of Contents for Kindle
So, you finished a book and have decided to take the indie publishing route. Now you’ve done it, wandering into unfamiliar territory. So much goes into setting a book up for sale on Amazon. Little...
View ArticleLink of the Week – Kindle and Clickfarms, WTH?
Clickfarm employee I have a love/hate relationship with Amazon. As a consumer, I love the ease of shopping with them. As an author, I am in no way happy with their changing book-selling landscape,...
View ArticleLink of the Week – Amazon and Money Laundering
There seems to be no end to scams and the author is always on the raw end of the deal. Read, or watch the short video, on Fortune.com about a money-laundering scheme using independently published...
View ArticleLink of the Week – Author Beware
Here is a one-stop info shop for today’s publishing scams. This Reedsy blog touches on vanity presses, scams, contests and more authors should avoid. They also give some helpful tips on how to sidestep...
View ArticleLink of the Week – A Voice, Indie Author Support Network
Indie authors are long past being tired of the Zon’s antics. Such monkey business includes rank stripping, disappearing reviews or page reads, sketchy Terms of Service rules, the ease of which scammers...
View ArticleLink of the Week – Dear Jeff
I’m loving this! USA Today Best-selling author Suzan Tisdale writes an open letter to founder and chief executive officer of Amazon about the cheating, thievery, and other big problems with Kindle...
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