Once you’ve written your book, gotten it published and started to sell it, you’ve reached that part of the lifecycle where you are asked to sign copies. Your story is moving, has an interesting style, and your readers know you’re about to be the next...

When you’re ready to build up your Twitter community, the better you plan, the better the results. Follow these quick tips, tactics, and applications, and you’ll find being a self-published author on Twitter can be a very good thing. When it comes to...

Pricing anything you create can be tricky. If you don’t value your time and effort, no one else will. The fact that you are pricing your own creation and that it is digital can really stress an author over his work's true value. Still, the true value...

You want be a successful published author. You’ve already written a fab book but how do you get the word out there? One necessary skill is the ability to write a killer press release. A press release is a relation of the “news” article and is intended...

An index is an alphabetical list of topics or names mentioned in a printed work that gives each item the page number where it may be found within the text. For example, in a history book about the Civil War there may be a chapter on weapons, but in order...

Drumming up free advertising through a public relations campaign is one way to market a book, but some authors may want to do more. Authors, especially self-published ones, need to educate themselves about media advertising options. Understanding the...