One of the worst kept secrets in the indie publishing world is that you can list your book for more amazon categories than two. When you publish a book on KDP, Amazon allows you to list two categories, and the…

After launching an advertising campaign, one of the prominent statistics on the Amazon ads dashboard is something called the ACOS score. At first I had no idea what this was. But folks like Mark Dawson and Joanna Penn seemed to…

I received my first Amazon book review. What an exciting bit of social proof! It was posted by a family member. After he emailed me on Sunday to tell me he finished reading Naughty Week, I asked him nicely for…

When I first approached my budget for publishing Naughty Week, there were a few obvious expenses I knew I needed to consider. Self-publishing costs such as hiring a book cover designer and an editor were the obvious ones. But then…

Before I wrote my first novel, I spent years working in television as a script coordinator. Some of the duties of a script coordinator are similar to that of a line editor. The script coordinator is the one that proofread…

When I first came up with the idea for Naughty Week, I wasn’t thinking about how I could sell it. I fell in love with the story and the characters and wrote the best screenplay I could write. At that…

Over the course of my independent publishing adventure, I have found that one good way to promote a book is through author outreach. I’ve never been an expert at networking. To be honest, I’m pretty terrible at it. But I…

I finally broke down and purchased Dave Chessen’s keyword tool, KDP Rocket aka Publisher Rocket. It’s a nice author marketing tool to have in my arsenal. I am using October to test advertising campaigns, and I wanted to try a…

Ordering an author copy for each format of the book is another one of those essential indie author tasks. My first author copy finally arrived yesterday. How exciting! I received a notification while I was in a staff meeting at…