Self-publishing Tips: Lessons from My Best Month Yet

In this post, some sales-boosting strategies I used in March 2017 to grow my readership. In January, I launched my third novel, What She Inherits. Unlike my first two books, I actually had a real plan for sending this one into the world. My plan had two parts: First, generate excitement, rally book reviewers, and spread the word about my book before its release through the following methods: I...

ICYMI -- The Little Details that Matter for Book Layout

This essay was originally published in The Grub Daily and also appears in The Sane Person's Guide to Self-publishing. Both in my work at The Worcester Review and as a freelance book designer, I regularly receive manuscripts for publication that require serious attention before they can even be imported into InDesign for layout, not because they’re poorly written, but because they are full of sloppy...

Planning a Book Launch

In this post, some lessons learned from the release of my third novel, What She Inherits. After a lengthy break from updating this blog, I'm back with some tips and suggestions based on my recent experience in the self-pub world. Between November of 2013, when I published The Latecomers Fan Club, and January 2017, when I published What She Inherits, my attitude about self-publishing and thoughts...