For many indie authors, one retailer becomes the entire business. And that creates a fragile foundation. Publishing wide simply means making your books available across multiple retailers and platforms—rather than relying on a single storefront such as Amazon. It’s not about avoiding any particular platform. It’s about building a publishing model that protects your work and…
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Building Your Story: Characters, Setting and Theme
Part 2 of the Blue Crab Books New Author Series – practical guidance to help you turn your idea into a published book. Many new writers start with a great idea — but struggle to turn that idea into a story that actually works on the page. In this post, we’ll look at three foundations…
Indie Authors: your ebooks can now be sold through independent bookstores via Draft2Digital and Bookshop.org
There’s a meaningful new distribution option for indie authors—and it’s especially interesting if you care about reaching readers who actively support independent bookstores. Draft2Digital has announced that authors can now distribute their ebooks to Bookshop.org’s ebook platform, making those titles discoverable through more than 3,400 independent bookstores across the US and the UK. Before we…