by Andy Updegrove | Feb 6, 2014 | SelfPublishing
One of the traditional ways to inspire someone to read an author’s book has always been the interview – in print a newspaper or magazine, live on the radio or TV, or in front of a face-to-face audience. These days, all but the last are much harder to get,...
by Andy Updegrove | Feb 2, 2014 | SelfPublishing, Uncategorized
In the last post, we talked about the different types of Web sites you can create or take advantage of. In this entry, we’ll talk about actually creating the Web-based pages you’ll need to sell your self-published book, leaving to a later date how to create and...
by Andy Updegrove | Jan 24, 2014 | SelfPublishing
It’s obvious that any self-published author needs a Web presence. Why? Because promoting your books at many venues is free and most of the rest are cheap, and the Internet is where people go to find out anything and everything. And that’s great, isn’t it? In the old...
by Andy Updegrove | Jan 20, 2014 | SelfPublishing
This Friday, the latest installment in my long-running Adventures in Self Publishing series at my other blog will focus on all of those things that you need to do to take advantage of the Internet to promote your book, not in the dynamic sense (e.g., Twitter), but in...
by Andy Updegrove | Jan 19, 2014 | SelfPublishing
Certainly one of the most intimidating and/or distasteful tasks for a SelfPub author is to dive into social media if he has never had to before. True, as a lawyer, and a technology lawyer at that, I’ve not been able to totally avoid it. I’ve got over 600...