Self-publishing essentials with Ellie Marney: Promo, marketing and all that jazz (part five)
Advertising Welcome back! In the last article, we started talking about promoting in concrete ways—you can catch up with that article (and the three before it) right here. Now we’re...
Self-publishing essentials with Ellie Marney: promo, marketing and all that jazz (part four)
Get promoting! We’ve reached the fourth instalment of this series on book promotion—and congratulations! You’ve done all the preparation for marketing your book! You’ve made a marketing plan, figured out...
Self-publishing essentials with Ellie Marney: promo, marketing and all that jazz (part three)
Welcome back! In the first article in this series on book marketing, we explained the difference between promotion and marketing, and why it’s good to have a marketing plan. In...
Self-publishing essentials with Ellie Marney: promo, marketing and all that jazz (part two)
Your book promotion footprint In the first article in this series on book marketing, we talked about why marketing your book is worthwhile, why you’re the best person to market...
Self-publishing essentials with Ellie Marney: promotion, marketing and all that jazz (part one)
Writer, publisher, promoter So you’ve written a book, gone through the tricky process of prepping it for publication, and then released it out into the world. Congratulations! That is hard...
Self-publishing essentials: the purpose of publishing
When planning to self-publish, the first questions that most people ask usually relate to process. How do I turn a document into an ebook? What do I do about distribution?...
Self-publisher essentials with Ellie Marney: your publishing one-stop shop
When first researching the process of self-publishing, it can seem as if there are hundreds of different articles and books on the subject but no single map of the journey....
Self-publishing essentials with Ellie Marney: Crowdfunding your book release
Got a book written and not sure how to pay for production? In self-publishing, the initial costs of editing, creating a cover, typesetting and formatting—and sometimes printing and distribution—are all...
Self-publishing essentials with Ellie Marney: Money matters for self-publishers
Dealing with money and totting up figures … It’s not exactly the first thing a writer imagines when they’re thinking about their next book. But if you’re self-publishing, you’re not...
Self-publishing essentials with Ellie Marney: the legal checklist
New to self-publishing? Then it’s important to tick all the legal boxes related to releasing your work, so you don’t run into trouble. It’s particularly worth noting for hybrid authors,...