Comic: the highs and lows of your author sales dashboard…

Whenever you look at your sales you often wonder what you’re going to get. It’s a mixed bag of squee and WTF? Will you have oodles of sales and page reads or will there be no change or something worse. This comic illustrates what goes through our minds when that something worse appears…

Weekly Roundup of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 13 March 2016

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Chrishaun Keller played host today because Blab hated Erica for some strange reason! She was joined by Cate Morgan and D. R. Yurkas to discuss the below topics:

– Amazon aims for scammers but smacks innocent authors too!
– Apple is denied!
– Gdocs / Drive has a neat new trick!
– Something interesting about Kobo’s reader audience

SPRT #134 – Earn a living with a long term plan + running multi-author cross promos with Patty Jansen

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In a perfect world every author would have at least one best-seller… This week we talked with Patty Jansen, a sci fi and fantasy author who knows this isn’t a perfect world and has planned accordingly. We discussed the three year long-term plan she has put in place in order to earn a decent living off her writing. As well as that we also found out about one of the weapons Patty has in her marketing arsenal–multi-author cross promos–and how to use them.

Outlining in Scrivener with author Jim Johnson

Outlining in Scrivener with author Jim Johnson

Author Jim Johnson has decided to set himself a challenge. He’s going to write three novels in three months. For some that is a very bold challenge. In order to achieve this Jim has decided on a plan. One part of that plan is to carefully outline his three books and to do that he is enlisting Scrivener’s help.