Yesterday I laid out the details of what I’ve spent self-publishing my latest book, Love at the Speed of Email. So far, it’s cost me about $3500.00 to bring this …
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What is it about money that makes talking about it so hard? As I sit down to write this, I feel like I’m about to write a personal post about …
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What a whirlwind! Love At The Speed Of Email had a great launch day yesterday. Scores of people visited the launch announcement and a bunch of you clicked on over …
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This post was published on Chip MacGregor’s blog last week. Chip is the president of MacGregor Literary Agency, and my agent. His blog was recently named one of the best …
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Last Wednesday I wrote about the challenge that marketing can be for self-publishing authors. I asked what you would do if you were in charge of marketing my memoir, Love …
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When I signed the contract five years ago for My Hands Came Away Red I had ridiculously little idea about what went into getting a book out there. As far …
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I find book titles hard. I spent a decade working on my first novel and I still didn’t have a title I liked when I submitted it to publishers. This …
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Last week, after a string of awful nights, I decided to write a children’s story. The fun I had writing this little story did not make up for the exhaustion …
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Here’s a break from all the baby talk. This is a guest post I wrote for Moody Publisher’s blog InsidePages just before Dominic was born – they asked me to …
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It started shortly after I arrived here four weeks ago. Mum was asking me where I was up to with my next book, and I told her that my agent, …
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So I’m in Australia, after a long journey from Laos that had its ups and downs. We’ll get to those later this week, but first let me stop and say …
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Home, it seems, is the theme of the week. First, good news. The contract isn’t signed yet, so no guarantees, but it looks as if we have found a house! …