I’ve had a problem with the quality of Mashable’s ‘journalism’ for years but this article had me spitting muesli at my monitor. HOW TO: Self Publish Your Book with Amazon’s CreateSpace Ok, it’s a ‘how to’. A step-by-step guide. It’s not going to turn you into a novelist. But on this level alone, it’s hopeless: When writing your book, make [...] Continue reading Self-pubbing is easy, right? 
Can’t stop chuckling over this from Steve at MX Publishing: As of this summer, unless an author will have a blog, twitter account and fully fledged eCommerce site, we won’t be considering their manuscript. Why? Well, it’s simple risk management for us in a very fast changing and risky industry. If we look at our authors that have blogs they [...] Continue reading What a lovely way to treat your authors 
Hang out at a literary event and you can sense the tension. In the blue corner, published authors protecting their hard-won claims to legitimacy. Because you’re not a Real Writer until you’re in print and on a bookshelf, right? Sure, wannabes can posture towards some half-arsed credibility by self-publishing on the Kindle but all we find there are unedited Word [...] Continue reading Seconds out 
I’ve been thinking about how to structure the social media content on Audacious Author. Still am, to be honest. My day job involves devising and implementing social media marketing strategies (my night job involves drinking vodka, writing fiction and tweeting stuff I have to delete in the morning), and I’m fascinated by the ways in which authors are grappling with [...] Continue reading Social Media for Authors |
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