Joe Konrath Makes $15k A Week On His Backlist Titles In Backlist Then And Now Joe Konrath writes: These past two years have been in...

Writers Beware Of Autharium It seems like this is the time of year for scams targeting writers. Passive Guy, aka David Vandagriff, rece...

I discovered Lindsay Buroker's blog only within the last few months but within that brief time it has become one of my favorites. A ...

Tucker Max writes: I know how an author can triple their effective royalty. This is on the same sales, with nothing else substantively ...

Hugh Howey's Wool: An Overnight Success Yesterday I wrote an article in which I asked the question: Is Serial Fiction Profitable ?...

Amazon's Top 100 Authors It used to be that only books were ranked against one another but now Amazon is doing it to authors. The q...

As anyone who has successfully published a book will tell you, formatting your MS Word document correctly is the key to a successful, low...

The Espresso Book machine allows bookstores and libraries to print books on demand in about 6 minutes. This allows independent authors to...

Over the past few months, like mushrooms after a rain, scammers have sprung up offering to help indie authors publish their work. These...

I was surprised when I read that John Locke paid for book reviews. I was even more surprised that he required the reviewers to be honest;...

An article in The Globe And Mail recently proclaimed the end of the professional writer. Professional writers, it was said, are going th...

Dean Wesley Smith, in an article written for Kirkus reviews, talks about how he became an indie author: After 100-plus novels through t...

I love Dean Wesley Smith's articles, especially his advice to writers. Here's Dean's most recent advice to new authors, parap...

From Roxane Gay is Spelled With One "N" . How to Be a Contemporary Writer: 1. Read diversely. 2. Write. 3. See items 1 ...

I generally read Kris Rusch's business post as soon as it comes out on Wednesday or Thursday, but I've been busy and didn't...

Yesterday Sue Grafton backpedaled on her claim that self-publishers were "too lazy to do the hard work". Ms. Grafton writes: ...

Hugh Howey, the bestselling author of Wool, writes this reply to Sue Graften's allegation that self-publishers are "too lazy to ...

Seth Godin I love Seth Godin's ideas so I was thrilled to come across this video over at the Smithsonian ! Seth's video came up...

Amanda Hocking took the self-publishing world by storm in 2011. She "sold over a million copies of her nine books and earned two m...

Dean Wesley Smith continues his two part series listing 10 things indie writers do to shoot themselves in the foot. My post talking about...