Category: Author Platform

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A Manifesto for Authors’ Marketplace Success at FutureBook

In this new era of publishing, a writer, arguably, has more chance of becoming a successful author than at any other time in the last fifty years. That’s the opening line of my 500-word manifesto, “A Manifesto for Authors’ Marketplace Success“, which has just been published at Futurebook. This is part of a series of manifestos on the future of...

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Writers Unplugged is Live

In the third week of July this year I launched a new blog for writers, Writers Unplugged. This will now be my main blog for writers. Over the past 15 years I have posted my articles at multiple web sites including freelance writing material at WorldwideFreelance.com, e-publishing articles at PublishYourOwnEbooks.com and platform building at PlatformPundit.com. I have discovered that writing new material...

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Infographic: My Top Tips for Indie Authors in 2015

A few weeks ago I posted my views on where we’re heading in the independent publishing industry and what will be most important for indie authors in 2015.  So many readers enjoyed that post that I decided to create the following infographic that contains all of the key points.

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The Best Hashtags for Indie Authors in 2015

In this post I’ll reveal some of the most useful hashtags for indie authors. For those not familiar with hashtags they are essentially a keyword beginning with the “#” character. When someone writes a tweet they can include a hashtag to make it easier for people interested in that topic to find their tweets. For example I might include the hashtags #publishing...

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What is Important for Indie Authors in 2015?

It’s that season when people love to post resolutions and predictions for the year ahead. Along with others in the publishing industry I have been reviewing “where we’re at” and “where we’re heading” as an industry in 2015. When considering where we’re at it’s helpful to remember just how far self-publishing has come in the past decade. It’s just over 7 years since Amazon launched the first Kindle eReader (in...