Category Archives: Self Publishing

Get to Know Your Reader Through Research

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As an author, it’s extremely important that you truly know your reader. You should know their likes, dislikes, and what really makes them tick. If you know your reader, then you’ll be able to write books they love.

Don’t be the author who just writes whatever they want to write without giving a thought to the reader at the other end of things. You might think you know what they want, but it never hurts to do at least the bare minimum of research. In most cases, it makes a huge difference.

The only time where you wouldn’t have to gather much insight into your audience is if you’re already part of your audience and you interact with other members of that audience on a daily basis. For example, I don’t have to spend the time actively researching the at-home entrepreneur niche because that’s how I spend my day, in and out. I manage two extremely active communities in this niche and so I guess you could say I gathered my data over time.

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27 Low Content Books That Rake in Royalties on Amazon

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Low content books are one of the easiest ways to start earning royalties on Amazon. You don’t need to be a writer, artist, or designer. You don’t need to buy inventory or deal with shipping.

And you don’t need to spend hundreds of hours building a brand from scratch. What you do need is a smart idea and the willingness to hit publish. That’s where these 27 book types come in.

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Write & Publish a Kindle Short Story Series

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Being able to make money from your story ideas is something that can be very fulfilling for many men and women. You no longer have to have a traditional publisher. You can take advantage of platforms like Amazon and self publish on Kindle.

But for some people, when they begin the undertaking of an entire novel, it becomes intimidating and overwhelming. Imposter syndrome sets in and you begin second guessing yourself.

Instead of setting your sights on a large project, such as a full length novel, you may want to try your hand at a series of short stories. Short stories have the ability to earn you just as much as a full length novel, especially when eager readers consume the entire series or purchase collections with more than one story in them at a time.

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Self-Doubt No Longer Has a Place in Fiction

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There is one online business branch brimming with profit potential but too few people pursuing it. It’s not because it’s overly complex or too crowded. It’s because the men and women turning their backs on it lack the confidence to do it.

Self-publishing in the fiction world is something most people feel they’re not quite cut out for. They’re used to the traditional publishing route and worry that unless an agent and publisher hand-select them, their work isn’t worthy of being available for readers.

Would you like to gain that confidence? Read more inside.

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Outlining Short Books for Fast Writing

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People tend to really dislike this part of the process, but it’s very necessary. You might make it to a point that you don’t have to outline when you know a topic very intimately and you’ve written several books. For now, it’s time to embrace outlining. I think you’ll find that it saves you so much time that you’ll wonder what you ever did before you outlined!

People think they can save time by just sitting down and starting to write. The fact is that you’re just going to create more work for yourself when it comes time to edit. You might also fall prey to writer’s block. It takes a lot of effort to try to think up what to write next while you’re writing. It’s discouraging and it’s no way for most people to write a book.

I’m all about efficiency and speed and writing an excellent book. That means outlining. Your book should be well organized when you base it on your outline. If you just sit down and write on whatever comes to mind, the chances are good that your book won’t be very well organized. You’ll have a lot of reorganizing to do when it comes time to edit, which will end up taking you a lot more time in the end. If you’d just outlined in the first place, which really only has to take a few minutes, you would have saved yourself a lot of time and headache.

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