Nov 18, 2018 | ebooks, writing & publishing
When you format an ebook, or pay someone to format an ebook, you want a file that looks good on the eReader, is easy to deliver, and of a sufficiently small file size not to cost you any more money than necessary or cause problems when you upload it to vendors. In my...
Feb 24, 2017 | ebooks, your author webstore
One of the first basic lessons that’s taught in Entrepreneur 101 is that you don’t want to build your entire business on someone else’s platform. What does this mean? It means that if a tool you use to promote or service your business, for example Amazon, goes away...
Dec 29, 2015 | ebooks, events
There’s been a lot of talk in the Facebook groups I’m in about selling ebooks. And it’s great timing, because next month my webinar will be talking all about how to turn your old content, specifically audios and videos, into ebooks for more passive...
Dec 17, 2015 | ebooks, my philosophy, writing & publishing
As someone who came over from the fiction author side of things to nonfiction (granted my first nonfiction book was published in the mid 2000’s), there are some truisms that all fiction authors learn quickly from those who have gone before. And yet, in the...
Dec 2, 2015 | ebooks, email management, writing & publishing
I am going to come right out and say it. The Elf on a Shelf is creepy. I mean I have cats who watch me all the time. I can’t go to the bathroom without them. I can’t eat without them. But they’re cats. They’re ninjas who will kill me if I...