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 […]
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 […]
If you want to publish your book, you will. This is the bold claim of StoryForge, a writing, reading, and publishing platform launched in January 2024. The website’s goal is to offer a free place for writers to craft stories, get feedback, and achieve publication. The Minnesota based team, headed by Sabrina Rucker, is focused […]
It’s easier than ever to self-publish a book. You could stop reading this article right now and fire off the first chapter of your book in a series of Tweets if you wanted to. And more formal variations of self-publishing are readily available to the writer who intends to be more industrious in their foray […]
‘Simply putting a book into the cloud and onto a screen doesn’t make it anymore superior than a paper book.’ Marcelino Elosua said this to me when I first went to meet him at BlueBottleBiz. He is the CEO and Founder of the company, a collaborative learning platform, and LID Publishing, which turned 25 in […]
Publishers’ brands are under attack from all sides. The tectonic shifts the sector is undergoing have been brought on by a combination of increased competition, mainly in the form of consolidations balanced at the other end of the spectrum by nimble pop up publishers, and digital disruption. Now more than ever, publishers need to focus […]
