New Reviews (thanks!)

One of the more gnarly issues I’ve tried to deal with in trying to promote my book is how hard to try to get reviews, and if so, of what types, and from whom. I decided in the beginning that trying to get highly ranked Amazon reviewers to read my book was likely...

SmashWords’ Big Year

If you haven’t checked in on eBook publisher Smashwords (SW) lately, you’re in for a surprise. The little business that Mark Coker started five years ago is now the biggest publisher of eBooks around. And you don’t have to take his word for it...

Excellent Book Design Site

When I first started to prepare my book for publishing I spent a few hours cruising around looking for resources of various types, and bookmarking those that seemed worth revisiting. But I rarely did. Today I spent a little time checking out a few of those sites,...

Time to Get Down to Business

Time, time, time. Needless to say, there’s never enough of it. As a result, though I registered this blog months ago, I never got past picking an image and a name for it. That’s also because I have my doubts about this “An author must have a Web site...