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Writing for Retirement Income: A Slower Marketing Plan for the Later-Career Author

A lot of marketing advice is built for a twenty-eight-year-old chasing a breakout. Post daily, ride every trend, burn hot for a launch and…

You set up your book on KDP once, filled in the fields that had red asterisks next to them, and hit publish. Months later,…

Every time a link changes, you open the back matter of every book you have ever published and edit it one by one. A…

Make book one free and readers will fall into the series and buy the rest. It is one of the oldest pieces of advice…

One morning the login fails, and the account that holds your author page, your reader group, and years of reader relationships is gone behind…

You open the app, the follower number is lower than yesterday, and your stomach drops. You start scrolling back through your last few posts…

“What are you currently reading?” is the most-asked question in author newsletters, and one of the least answered. It feels engaging to write and…

The name change got the headlines. Audio is what actually changed. When Amazon turned its reading subscription into Kindle+ in October, which is the…

Most indie authors think about libraries exactly once. They decide libraries are a trad-publishing thing, or a print thing, or something you need an…

On 22 October, the Amazon subscription most authors still call KU became Kindle+. The price is the same, the borrowing rules are the same,…