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In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author and publishing consultant Joanna Penn offers a list of common self-publisher mistakes and how to ensure they don’t happen to you. To be an independent author means taking your book project seriously. But most of us haven’t been in publishing for our whole careers, so it’s inevitable that we make […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author and publishing consultant Joanna Penn talks direct marketing and KDP Select. If you want to sell books, you need to find readers. Although there are a lot of ebook vendors out there, Amazon is currently the dominant player and there are a lot of readers who own Amazon Kindles/Fires and […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, publishing consultant and author Joanna Penn looks at what Seth Godin and Mitch Joel are saying about the future of publishing. In the last week there have been two great audio interviews on the future of books. I would say it’s not the future but more current, emerging and becoming more […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, indie author and publishing consultant Joanna Penn shares lessons learned. This is podcast number 100 and it’s just over 2 years since I started podcasting. [Editor’s note: podcast is included at the end of this article] At the time, I had one non-fiction book out with pretty much zero sales and […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author and consultant Joanna Penn offers advice on how to find a writer’s group that’s a fit. Writer’s groups can be quite difficult because sometimes there is more talking than writing. Maybe that’s what you want, but I have been struggling to find a place to write for a while now. […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, indie author and publishing consultant Joanna Penn discusses how cultural differences can impact ebook sales. So I’ve just moved from Australia to England and it’s fascinating to me how different ebook and Kindle sales are here, on the other side of the world, albeit in a similar culture. In the video […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, indie author and publishing consultant Joanna Penn offers a Q&A on the topic of book marketing. In this podcast [see bottom of this post], I go through your marketing questions submitted as part of the blog survey a few months back. I recorded this about a month ago before I left […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, indie author and publishing consultant Joanna Penn offers links to resources for young aspiring authors. I have had a number of teenagers email me in the last year and have been so encouraged by their eagerness to write and become authors. I am also helping my 9 year old niece write […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, indie author and consultant Joanna Penn offers tips for finding a writer’s group that’s a fit for you. Writer’s groups can be quite difficult because sometimes there is more talking than writing. Maybe that’s what you want, but I have been struggling to find a place to write for a while […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, Joanna Penn shares a podcast interview with author L.J. Sellers, who recently decided to go indie. It’s exciting to hear about independent authors making a living from their books and today’s interview with L.J. Sellers will inspire you! L.J. actually left her traditional publisher to go the indie route and she […]
Since its launch a little over three years ago, Publetariat.com has become the premier online news hub and community for indie authors and small imprints. Ebooks are a major component of most indies’ publication strategy nowadays, and the ebook news and commentary Publetariat shares is often of interest to readers, as well. With that in […]