The SPRT Blog
Information, advice, tutorials, interviews and more...Interview with bestselling paranormal author Rebecca Hamilton
First I'd like to say thanks again for coming on the blog. Thanks for having me, Kevin. I'm honored that you reached out to me for this interview. Now for readers that don't know your work, tell us a little bit about "The Forever Girl" series. The Forever Girl series...
Have You Met Other Indies?
Writing groups have always been fairly popular with authors. It's a good place to talk craft. Get feedback on your work and just be one with the written word. However in the digital age of indie publishing they have taken a bit of a back seat. More and more authors...
Making Magic In Fantasy
This is an old post I did last year on my blog when I was blogging about writing. I figured it was popular back then so I'd repost it here now we are blogging on the Roundtable site. I hope people enjoy it. As an avid reader of fantasy, one of the aspects that can...
How You Can Make $50,000 A Year Without Ever Hitting Bestseller List
It's easy to get fixated on the Amazon Top 100. You hear stories about authors selling 10,000, 20,000, or even 50,000 books a month and you wonder how that could ever happen to you. You may have heard about people having a successful Bookbub promo that charted a book...
Top Amazing Fiction Categories to Chart in on 7 sales a day or less
How this list is organized: 7 sales a day is around a 20,000 to 26,000 sales rank. For each line, I've listed the subcategory on the left, then the rank of the #100 book in that subcategory on the right. Note: Most of these categories can only be accessed through the...
Top Five Things You Can Do To Sell More Books
1. Get A Paid Promotion. Buying advertising is the easiest way to get exposure for your books. And while Bookbub is the big dog in the ebook world, there are a number of good options. Here's a rundown for you: -Bookbub (www.bookbub.com) No Minimum Review Count Listed,...
Why Isn’t Your Book Selling?
You have an amateurish cover and/or your cover doesn't fit in with the established conventions of your genre. There's a lot of bad covers out there. We've all seem them. Some of them are embarassingly bad. Look, not everyone is good with photoshop. And money is...
The Last Author Standing…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywkDf5znvIs Simon Cantan's Acceptance Speech Recently the Self-Publishing Roundtable sponsored and took part in our friend Trish McCalan's 'Last Author Standing' challenge. The idea was 15 authors would set a daily word count goal then...
Describli
"Describli is a new community combining social networking, writing prompts, and friendly competition to make a revolution of writing awesomeness. Respond to writing prompts each day, and then watch your audience grow. The more people who rate your writing highly, the...
The Future Of Storytelling
We did briefly cover this story on Episode 17 of the show last night. But I think this is a big enough opportunity for all writers to take a look at, so I thought I would share some more info on the site. Here's the introduction video:...
Separated at Birth?
The blurry picture, on the left, is a much, much younger Wade Finnegan. On the right, is a recent picture of Anthony Michael Hall. I was unable to find a picture of Mr. Hall at the same tender age as Wade, but even with the disparity in their ages, I think you can...
Are you a good match for PubMatch?
PubMatch is a site that was formed as a partnership between Publishers Weekly and The Combined Book Exhibit Family of Companies. The site allows authors to upload their books to a repository where they can be reviewed by editors, agents and publishers. The appeal of...
Lessons from Joss Whedon
In addition to writing original content for this site, one of the things I hope to do is to re-share material from around the web. So, from time to time, I'll share articles here that I feel provide insight into the writing process. The first of these articles is...
Google Enters the Game!
In what may be the biggest, most exciting story in self-publishing all year... Google just entered the game, in a BIG WAY! Google Play Store has a new & improved publishing platform, and damn it looks awesome. It looks simple to use. It appears super customisable....
Kobo Removes Goodreads Reviews
It appears that Goodreads reviews and ratings, will no longer appear on Kobo book pages. In March 2013, Amazon purchased Goodreads, but it seemed Kobo would continue to use their reviews. Mainly due to a lack of their own review structure. This is no longer the case....
Coming Soon…
The new look Self-Publishing Roundtable, will be revealed this week. Tune in live Thursday 23rd August at 7PM PST / 10 PM Eastern.