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5 Little-Known Tips to Make a Great Do-It-Yourself eBook Cover
This design is not too much harder than what you can do yourself. You’ve heard it a thousand times: “Pay for a professional cover for your book.” And you should. You absolutely should. The cover of...
View Article16 Inspiring Quotes from Self-Published Authors Who Make More than $50,000/Year
We all need a little inspiration sometimes, and that inspiration is often the strongest when it comes from the people on the same path who went before us! These folks might be outliers, but they all...
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A Rose by Any Other Name: On Pen Names and Prejudice
My name is Alexis Radcliff, and I write epic, plot-driven fantasy novels. Plenty of violence, tech, magic, and politics. Conventional wisdom says that many men pass over books written by women in this...
View ArticleYour Book Discovery Problem Should Not Be a Problem: A Free Start-Up Idea
“There are too many eBooks being published! We’re being crushed under a weight of literary content and most of it won’t ever be read!” Popular sentiments these days, right? But more than a little...
View ArticleLet’s Make Fantasy Book Searches Better, Together!
Ever since I wrote my last post about discovery, I haven’t been able to let go of the idea of creating a searchable and sortable database of books online with curated/categorized tags. Despite being at...
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Income, Covers, and Editing: More Fascinating Data About Indie Authors
It felt like it was about time to do another fun post on data about self-published authors, as reported by the authors themselves. This time I’ll be breaking down the stats you can find in the Author...
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Reedsy.com Review: One Author’s Experiences
If you keep up on publishing news, you’ve probably heard some buzz about Reedsy.com. It’s a new company intent on bringing the sharing economy to the world of indie publishing and offering a...
View ArticleTips for Dealing with Depression as a Writer
Do you ever feel depressed? I know firsthand how much those emotions can interfere with your writing work. Today I want to talk about feelings of depression, anxiety, fear, and what I do about them...
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The Top 5 Banned Books of 2014
Censoring ideas is the first step toward a world in which only one way of seeing things is acceptable. I find the idea of living in such a world deeply objectionable. This is why I want to bring your...
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A Vanishing Glow: Cover Reveal
After many long months of working out all the little kinks in my upcoming fantasy epic, I’m just about ready for prime time. I can’t wait to share it with you all! In the meantime, I want to take a...
View ArticleCheering on the Indies
After what’s seemed like a slew of news from the anti-self-publishing crowd lately, it was refreshing this week to trip across two articles with strong, supportive arguments for choosing the Indie...
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How To Import Word Comments into Scrivener in 5 Easy Steps (PC Version)
Scrivener is one of the most popular author tools on the market today for writing and editing books — it’s no surprise given how easy it is to break up your text, swap chapters around, keep notes, and...
View ArticleDrops in the Bucket: On Amazon and the Slow Build to Success
On the first day of new hire orientation at Amazon.com, they tell you a story about how Jeff Bezos originally sold books out of his garage. He and his employees worked on bare concrete floors without...
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The Big Five’s Secret Shadow War on Amazon and the Indie Marketplace
In the last year, we’ve been watching some very interesting things happen with eBook prices. Amazon fought a war with Hachette over pricing in 2014, and by April 2015 they’d signed contracts with the...
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Your Indispensable NaNoWriMo Toolkit
There’s a chill in the air, fuzzy boots on my feet, and Halloween is sneaking up on us fast, which means that everyone’s favorite opportunity to bust out a full-length novel in a month is right around...
View ArticleWattpad and the Power of Free
Once upon a time, I was a broke college student. Not, like, destitute, but certainly without a lot of disposable income. I’ve always been a big reader and tech enthusiast, though, and so when the 1st...
View ArticleFemale Epic Fantasy Authors: Playing On Hard Mode
Kameron Hurley’s recent post got me thinking today about how tough it can be for women to break into epic fantasy compared to their male peers. Look at Mark Lawrence’s post about how Goodreads ratings...
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The Making of an Indie Audiobook: A How-To Guide
I recently announced that A Vanishing Glow is available in audiobook format now. Those of you following the blog will note that I’m still just an itty bitty indie author, and so I’ve had a number of...
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