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Finally. It’s here. The book that hits the sweet spot for everyone who has a personal or professional interest in the ebook revolution from the author’s or publisher’s side of the equation. From a Guy who has made a very successful career of hitting the sweet spot ever since he played the role of...
Happy New Year from Kindle Nation, We’ve all been saying “Happy New Year” to total strangers for the past few days, but we have made a real new Year’s Resolution to try to make you and all of our regular Kindle Nation sponsors especially happy this year, and here’s what we are doing about...
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, the Duolit team shares some tips for maximizing the marketing effectiveness of your Facebook presence. Do you want to know something that makes me feel old? Facebook has been around for eight years. I was a sophomore in college back in 2004 when Mark Zuckerberg first launched the social media...
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author Peg Brantley muses on the sometimes murky waters of authorial ethics. This post originally appeared on the Crime Fiction Collective blog and is reprinted here in its entirety with that site’s permission. If you draw a line in the sand—over which you affirm you will not cross—where do...
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, Publetariat founder and Editor in Chief shares her annual holiday tradition of reprinting her poem, A Writer’s Night Before Christmas. For those who don’t know, the “NaNoWriMo” to which she refers in the last line is National Novel Writing Month, in which participants attempt to write an entire novel in...
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, Jennie Hillborne shares some of the likely reasons someone might decide not to finish reading a book. This post, by Jenny Hillborne, originally appeared on the Crime Fiction Collective blog on 9/26/12 and is reprinted here in its entirety with that site’s permission. Confession: I watch reality TV. Some of...
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, indie author M. Louisa Locke shares information and her experiences pertaining to the use of keywords, categories and tags on Amazon. A year ago (October 2011), I wrote a piece entitled Categories, Key words, and Tags, Oh My!: Why Should an Author Care?, which has become the most frequently viewed...
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, the Duolit team share their tips for writing more compelling email updates and newsletters for your subscribers. The average person receives 147 emails every day. When I first read that statistic, it seemed like total hooey. Almost 150 messages every day? Maybe fancypants famous people get that many, but definitely...
Publetariat Dispatch: Indie Author vs. Indie Entrepreneur
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, Publetariat founder and Editor in Chief April L. Hamilton shares her reasons for not going full-bore with author platform and marketing her books. As you may have noticed, it’s been a LONG time since I’ve posted . There are good reasons for that, like the fact...
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