Serialisation – publishing novels (or other works) in instalments – is not a new idea, but the internet gives us many new ways to do it.
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Lots of ideas for Self Publishing
The first SelfPub Aus MeetUp – held over Zoom due to the COVID crisis – had a great group of writers and generated a wealth of ideas.
Overcoming Writer’s Block
There are two kind of writer’s block which need to be tackled with different strategies. Let’s look at each kind, and how to try to fix them.
We shall eat and drink again!
As we live through a strange and uncertain time, many of us will be expressing our struggles and emotions through writing. Part of a series on Surviving Shutdown for writers.
5 tips for writing audiobooks
Audiobooks have been described as a “rising star” of the publishing industry, with sales surging. These are some tips to make your writing more audiobook-ready:
5 marketing tasks before you publish
You can’t start your marketing from the moment you hit the Publish button. You need to prepare well in advance. Here are five key tasks to complete
6 ways to get reviews
The holy grail for any author is to get a large number of Verified reviews on Amazon. Here are six ways to get reviews
Why not go with a traditional publisher?
Just a few years ago, there was still a huge stigma with self-publishing. The general view was that no traditional publisher – and in particular the Big Publishers – would ever touch an author who had gone the DIY route. How times change.
3 reasons to self-publish your book
Self-publishing is nothing new – authors including Jane Austen, Martin Luther, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf have all done it – but the internet makes it a lot easier.
NaNoWriMo: End of Week 2
Half way through NaNoWriMo. And two thirds of the word count done, thanks to not yet needing to use the wordcount buffer