You just received the email every self-published author dreads. Your book-the one you spent months or years writing-has been flagged or removed for “misleading content.” Maybe your entire KDP account has been terminated. The email is maddeningly vague, offering something like: “We found that you have published titles with misleading content that have the potential […]
Look, let’s be honest: writing is hard. It’s lonely. It’s full of self-doubt. And sometimes – usually around 3 AM when you’re staring at a blinking cursor – it feels impossible, not to mention how hard it is to build a career as an author, a notion some may consider purely mythological at this point. […]
Have you ever thought about diversifying your income from your book? I frequently receive questions from independent authors who want to know how they can maximize their books’ impact. But this impact doesn’t have to be limited to sales from a single book. More audiences and income streams are available to you—you just have to […]
Heading into 2025 brings with it some needed adjustments as we, authors and publishers committed to seeing our words impact our world, set out to market the works of our hands. Continuing with this unpacking of the five points set out at the relaunch of this site, in this article we’re going to look at […]
‘I spit in my hands…’ The sentence has been in my mind for a couple of days now. I am not sure what it wants from me. What does it want me to do with it? What does it want to be? I haven’t had the time to write anything properly in the past months. […]
Tom Etzel is the founder and executive director of The Global Peace Building Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting grassroots peacebuilding efforts worldwide. In September, he self-published his debut novel Within Our Grasp: Changing Ourselves and the World. After experiencing personal losses in the aftermath of 9/11, Etzel felt compelled to study and pursue peacebuilding […]
This is the last PUBLISHING SERVICE INDEX for 2018. Our previous one was released earlier this year in April and I am switching to releasing it just twice a year (generally, Spring and Winter). The index continues to reflect closures of publishing service providers and our latest release sees the departure of one of the stalwarts of the self-publishing […]
Spiderwize, a division of print and creative and development design company Bonacia UK, describes its services as ‘assisted self-publishing’ and though based in Peterborough, England, the services are available to UK and US authors. Spiderwize has become more prominent in recent years, particularly in the UK, and now has more than 200 published titles. We […]
Press Release Matador, one of the UK’s most widely recommended self-publishing service providers, is delighted to announce that they now offer a complete audiobook creation, publishing and distribution service for self-publishing authors. With an emphasis on top quality production values at a realistic and affordable cost, all the audiobooks will be narrated by professional actors […]
Jeremy Thompson of Troubador and Matador Publishing joined presenter Mick Rooney on Radio Espial to discuss all things publishing, self-publishing, digital publishing and technology.
