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“This podcast is guaranteed”

My email inbox is getting crowded with a lot of surefire offers lately. So many people offer online courses to help me learn marketing so I can sell more books. Here are some examples from my inbox. Nick Stephenson’s Your First 10,000 Readers Bryan Cohen Selling for Authors Joanna Penn, the Creative Penn—three courses, including […]

Monday blog for writers: Don't ignore e-books

It baffles me that there are still authors, intelligent professionals who want to reach an audience, yet who do not use the most effective and cheapest way of doing that — ebooks. Last Saturday, I participated in the first Ottawa Book Fest held by the National Capital branch of the Canadian Authors Association. While it wasn’t […]

She should have dialyzed last night, but she’d fallen asleep too soon, cocooned in fading dreams, down, and enchantment. The next round of belly noises came with spikes. “That shit was good. You ever think of going into politics?” “Only with a bulldozer.” Helen Hanson is an Amazon bestselling thriller author of 3 Lies and […]

Writing Tips: Smashwords allows direct uploading of EPUB files

This is big news for indie authors: Smashwords is now supporting the direct uploading of EPUB-formatted books for sale through its e-retail network.According to the Smashwords Official Blog, the new Smashwords Direct “allows our authors and publishers to upload their own professionally formatted EPUB files for sale at the Smashwords store, and for distribution to […]