From Rick: Last time, I listed several design mistakes and offered some suggestions for selecting a cover design. In this installment, I’m going to give you some further thoughts to help you zero in on your cover design. I’ll give
Read Moreby Kellee Kranendonk From Rick: This post is an excellent follow-up to Kellee’s post last week on crafting a marketable story. Here, Kellee gives you some ideas on how to categorize the story you’ve just written. This can be important
Read Moreby Kellee Kranendonk From Rick: While reviewing Kellee’s articles that previous appeared in Silver Blade, I found this one for a perfect follow-up to my “From Idea to Story” series because writing the story is only half the battle. Assuming
Read MoreFrom Rick: Last week I promised that we’d be doing some guest blogs posts along with our regular posts. Scott will be starting a series on death scenes (from a police investigators perspective) next week that we’ll be slipping in
Read MoreFrom Rick: Those of you who have been following this blog for the past several weeks know that I’ve been talking a lot about marketing. You might be getting tired of it, and some might be getting discouraged (though I
Read MoreFrom Rick: I had intended to do a different post this week, and had not intended to do a part 5 of this series, not yet anyway, but we’ve received several comments about it. We rarely get comments on the
Read MoreFrom Rick: In this series and in my previous two-part series on Book Marketing Games, I’ve tried to pass along the best advice I’ve collected from various sources. You should understand that none of this advice is absolute. Our running
Read MoreFrom Rick: As an introduction to this series of posts on marketing, you should read the following article for a good laugh and reinforcement that self-published authors are just as legitimate as traditionally published ones. TOLD BY AN IDIOT #6
Read MoreFrom Rick: Last week I talked about the dangers of Kindle Select when used improperly. This week I want to mention a couple of book marketing games that rarely lead to significant sales and that can backfire. An author’s primary
Read MoreFrom Rick: It’s a fair statement that at least thousands of indie/self-published books are released each month, and that number is growing. The biggest challenge the self-published author faces is marketing his book so that it gets noticed among the
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