#SelfPublishing Year in Review -- Running the Numbers

In The Sane Person's Guide to Self-Publishing, I provided honest figures for how many books I've sold, how many free downloads I've had, and my earnings. Here's a quick update with the latest figures. A few things before we got to the numbers: I don't claim my results are typical. Many self-publishers sell more than this, and many sell less. That said, I think my results give a pretty good sense...

#IndieAuthors #NetGalley -- Is it worth the cost?

In this post, reflections on my experience with NetGalley, a service that helps publishers to get books into the hands of reviewers. By far the greatest challenge for any author is finding readers. Thanks to the jungle of Amazon, reader reviewers have been essential to the success of most books, but getting people to actually post reviews is even more challenging than finding readers. Among the...