The 10 Steps to Becoming a Successful Indie Author
You want it, don’t you?! I mean success as an author! What does that mean to you? To me, it means fame, fortune and giving my readers a satisfying and memorable experience that they want more of!
Category: Author Career
Author Entrepreneurs: We Walk Alone Together
I learned yesterday in an awesome Human Design session with Julien Adler just how much I’m blazing my own trail. Darn! I look out into the field of other artist entrepreneurs and wonder how I can be more like them… Oops! I mean, what can I learn from them. Because I’m walking my own path. Other artist entrepreneurs like…
Thank God for Book Reviewers!
I used to be a book reviewer, back in the early days of my writing career. In fact, the second thing I ever got published was a review of Katherine Neville’s The Eight. I...
INDIE AUTHORS: Top 2 Tips to Selling Books
Welcome to my weekly series on Resources for Indie Authors. Yes, these tips and strategies apply to all authors! We want to sell books, right? But we’re anxious about how to actually make that...
Author Entrepreneurs, We Succeed Together
Since we often work at home alone, isolated from each other, we often forget that we only succeed in community. Authors write books. Readers read them. Booksellers and distributors get the books to the...
We All Have An Instinct for Dragons
Welcome to the Wednesday series on Fans of Fantasy and Science Fiction. I’ll just come right out and say it! {I’m getting used to saying it!} I’m releasing my YA fantasy on February 28,...
The 3 Most Important Social Media Tips for Writers
Join us for this free teleseminar… February 28, 2011 5pm PST / 8pm EST Join Beth Barany, independent publishing consultant… The 3 Most Important Social Media Tips for Writers Join Beth Barany on her...
Author-Entrepreneurs: Have You Had A Break Lately?
This post is #4 in a series on Artist Entrepreneur Success on what it takes to succeed in business as an author-entrepreneur. Rest to fill the well. Yes, my dears — step away from the computer and get away from the desk.
The Universal Key to Success: Focus
This post is #4 in a series on Artist Entrepreneur Success on what it takes to succeed in business as an artist-entrepreneur. That’s right, folks: Focus! Many people think that they need a proper plan, that they need to know all the steps to get where you’re going. But actually you just need to pay attention to that one thing that will make all the difference — today.
The Busy Life of a Creative Entrepreneur: Priorities
Welcome back to the new Friday series on the business side of being a creative entrepreneur. This post is #3 in a series Artist Entrepreneur Success on what it takes to succeed in business as an artist-entrepreneur. Today we cover a topic that I have been resisting almost as long as I’ve been in business: making priorities.
The Myths and Facts about Self-Publishing Teleseminar Today!
What is self-publishing really? And is it the right choice for us as writers? I had these questions too, and have done much research, and more importantly have taken the plunge. I am the...
Resources for Indie Novelists: The Future is in The News
As an indie novelists, and book coach and editor, I’m always trawling the ‘net for news on anything that affects authors and anything that can hint at which way the wind is blowing. The...
Successful Indie Novelists (We’re self published and we’re proud!)
Today I acknowledge the hard working independently published novelists who are doing really well. Why? Because I want to join their ranks, and will. Though more on that later. (BTW, I have already self-published...
How to Find a Literary Agent
Many people ask me how to find literary agents. (Well, after they ask me if I am one. Nope — I’m not. But I can help you find one!) Or you can find one...
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