“Your brand’s content should project a consistent voice, tone, and style, no matter who—or what—writes it.” – Content Marketing Institute AI can help you keep your voice while turning a book chapter into an article, adapt a blog post into an email, create a checklist from a longer guide, or extract social content from one…
“Build it like a Lego sculpture, so you can take it apart without breaking the bricks.” – Ahava Leibtag, CEO, Aha Media Group A strong nonfiction book chapter may contain enough material for several website articles. It might include: That does not mean you should cut the chapter into equal sections and publish each section…
“The reality is that not everything can be done at once.” – Sarah Gibbons, Nielsen Norman Group Old content is not automatically useless. A blog post published several years ago may still contain a strong idea, a helpful example, or a framework readers need. A book chapter may remain valuable even if some tools, examples,…
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.” — Mark Twain Your first book launch can feel intimidating. It’s the moment your book becomes available to readers. You may not have a large email…
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.” — Mark Twain At some point in your self-publishing journey, you will hear this advice: “You need to build an email list.” It is good advice….
“The secret to wealth is simple: Find a way to do more for others than anyone else does. Become more valuable.” — Tony Robbins At some point in your self-publishing journey, you will probably run into the phrase “wide publishing.” Authors talk about it with strong opinions. Some describe wide publishing as freedom, independence, and…
“The secret to wealth is simple: Find a way to do more for others than anyone else does. Become more valuable. Do more. Give more. Be more. Serve more.” — Tony Robbins Once new indie authors understand KDP royalties, the next question often gets more strategic: should your ebook stay exclusive to Amazon through KDP…
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” — Warren Buffett Once your book is written, formatted, covered, and uploaded, the next question becomes obvious: how much will you actually earn? For many new indie authors, KDP royalties can feel confusing. You may see royalty percentages, delivery costs, printing costs, page reads, Kindle…
“A tool is only as good as the person who uses it. But a great tool gets out of the way and lets you do your best work.” — David Heinemeier Hansson Once your book is written and formatted, a new concern takes center stage: how the book looks to potential readers. For many indie…
“The hardest thing is to keep a close watch on your thoughts; the next hardest is to keep a close watch on your words.” — Eckhart Tolle Most self-publishing mistakes are not dramatic. They usually do not come from laziness, lack of talent, or some fatal flaw in your author dream. More often, they come…