What Belongs on a Copyright Page
Readers never look at it. Librarians and cataloguers do, and if the information is not there they stop reading and move on. You never find out.
Tag: Self-Publishing (Page 4)
Book MarketingWhy Amazon KDP Sucks: They Terminated My Account Overnight
Amazon terminated my KDP account overnight because two books had the same content. One of them was unpublished, by me, that afternoon, following Amazon's own rules for changing a subtitle. No warning, no human, no appeal I could find. This…
Book MarketingIngramSpark: How I Publish Now and Why
IngramSpark does hardcover, reaches the catalog libraries and bookstores order from, lets you set your own margin over a printing base price, and since BookBuilder arrived you no longer have to produce a wraparound cover PDF yourself. It pairs with…
AmericaWalt Whitman Day: The Book He Kept Rewriting
Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass in 1855 with no author name on the cover, set some of the type himself, wrote anonymous reviews praising his own book, and then revised it for the next thirty-seven years across six editions. He…
AlgorithmsThe Graph That Goes Vertical Is Usually Somebody Else’s
One creator earned $58,697 from five million plays and started selling sponsor slots. Another with 7.85 million subscribers raised four million and bought a building. Both decided the platform was distribution and the business had to live somewhere else.
Book MarketingBehind the Book: Publish Your Book
I clicked Publish on my first book in 2016 and watched nothing happen for two weeks. Zero sales. I had assumed writing the book was the hard part, which is the assumption every new author makes.
Book MarketingBehind the Book: Sell Your Books
I quit in 2013, moved to Florida, and decided I would be a professional writer. My first book sold about a dozen copies. The book was fine. The waiting was the problem.
Book MarketingBehind the Book: The ADHD Marketer
I got sick of marketing advice that assumed I had a normal brain. The problem was never my brain. The problem was trying to run somebody else’s operating system on it.
BloggingBehind the Book: The Blog-to-Book Blueprint
A pile of bricks and a house are made from the same materials and are not the same thing. Your posts were written to stand alone, and a book does not work that way.
Book MarketingThe Difference Between Being Known and Being Findable
There are people in your field who everybody knows and nobody can find. That is not a visibility problem, and treating it as one is why it never gets fixed.
Book MarketingBehind the Book: Make a Living as a Self-Published Author
One of the first books I wrote, published in 2017 and heavily revised for 2026. People have been declaring the golden age of self-publishing over since 2013 and have been wrong every year since.
Book MarketingWhat Happens After Somebody Reads Your Book
Somebody finishes your book on a Tuesday. Nothing happens on Wednesday. Six weeks later they mention you in a meeting you are not in.