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Writing and Self-Publishing Links of the Week: May 21

This is a post in our continuing series of writing and publishing links of the week.

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Episode 3: What Everyone’s Talking About & The Importance of Planning

A big story (at least as big as it gets in the self-publishing world) broke this week, and it seemed everyone was talking about it — everyone, that is, except for us. Here we remedy that situation with a whole segment dedicaed to that very topic. Am I being vague on purpose? Possibly. Okay, I’ll […]

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A Shout for Lulu: Alistair’s Self Publishing Story

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Below is the self-publishing story of Alistair Sowerbutts, author of The Pyn King. He discusses his motivation to self-publish, the self-publishing process itself, and his marketing efforts after publication. I self published the first version of The Pyn King for my sister. She had agreed to check the book for glaring errors before I started […]

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14 Steps to Launch Your Author Blog — Today!

120,000 new blogs created. Over 1.4 million posts published. What’s that, every year? Guess again. That’s every day. Every. Single. Day. Kind of a terrifying, huh? When you hear numbers like that, it’s easy to think that blogging is futile. After all, with that many blogs and posts, who’s going to read what I have […]

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Cath Ryan Howard [Self-Publishing Interview Series]

Many twenty-somethings dream of crossing oceans and social barriers to have that one, life-altering experience that will give us direction and perspective for the rest of our lives. Very few of us, however, actually have the cajones to make our dreams into reality. Instead, we can eagerly devour Moustrapped, the self-published debut of Irish author […]

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