by Erica Conroy | Jan 30, 2016 | Podcast
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Fiction and non fiction author Chris Fox returned to talk to us about giving up his six figure evil day job for the unknown as a full-time author. We asked him what plans he has to keep himself from procrastinating his day away (like Erica), how he intends to meet his publishing schedule and releasing 12 books this year!
by Erica Conroy | Jan 26, 2016 | News
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Welcome to the Roundtable Roundup, our second weekly podcast where we go back to our roots and brought back the Roundtable aspect. Each Sunday (American time) we’ll invite a guest or two to join us live to discuss the latest news and views from the self-publishing and indie industry.
Topics include:
– Kindle ebooks with bad formatting and/or spelling mistakes to include warning label for readers
– Amazon to close Shelfari and merge it with Goodreads
– SFWA to back self-publishing Kickstarter campaigns
– A sexy ebook enhancement…
by Erica Conroy | Jan 23, 2016 | Podcast
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Hey folks, this week we were lucky to be joined by returning guest to the podcast, horror author J. (James) Thorn. Ee discussed James’ ever changing journey along the winding road that is self-publishing and uncovered everything from his Youtube channel/podcast, Dark Arts Theater, to his collaboration with Joanna Penn on their novel, Risen Gods as well as their nonfiction book for authors titled Co-writing a Book: Collaboration and Co-creation for Authors.
by Erica Conroy | Jan 21, 2016 | Blog
You probably already know that you can select up to two categories and up to seven keywords when publishing your book on Amazon’s KDP. But what you might not know is how to best utilise them to make your book more visible and stand out among the masses of other books in your genre.
Includes:
– keywords
– categories
– keyword stuffing
– special keywords
– ninja keywords (title and blurb)
– additional notes
by Erica Conroy | Jan 19, 2016 | News
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Changes are happening daily around the globe and in Indie Publishing, so you shouldn’t be surprised to see change happening here with the Self-Publishing Roundtable. The first change of note is that we are adding a second weekly podcast into the line up. We’ve decided to go back to our roots and have brought back the Roundtable aspect. Each Sunday (American time) we’ll invite a guest or two to join us and discuss the latest news and views from the self-publishing and indie industry and this will officially published on Monday (American time).
Topics include:
– Scriptwriting apps
– Author’s stealing from other authors AKA Don’t steal from David Gaughran
– December’s KENPC
– New Tech: Kindle-style braille ereader for the blind