Motivation

The following is a guest post from William Joel and an entry in February’s Self-Publishing Writing Contest. Click here to vote for the winner of this month’s contest. Want to help out your fellow indie authors? Consider entering March’s contest! Recently, with the emergence of one Publish-on-Demand service (POD) after another, there seems to have been an explosion of self-published works. [...]
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Tags: Guest Posts, history, Motivation, Publishing, self-publishing perception

The following is a guest post from Michael W. Roberts and an entry in February’s Self-Publishing Writing Contest. Voting for the winner will begin on Thursday, February 9th. Want to help out your fellow indie authors? Consider entering March’s contest! Why do you write? What is it that gets you out of bed in the morning or keeps you [...]
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Tags: Guest Posts, Motivation, writer's block, writing a novel, writing process, Writing Tips

The following is a guest post from Merry Farmer and the first entry in February’s Self-Publishing Writing Contest. Voting for the winner will begin on Thursday, February 9th. Want to help out your fellow indie authors? Consider entering March’s contest! I once took a train trip from Orlando to Philadelphia. I was moving back home [...]
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Continue Reading The Long Game of Self-Publishing [Guest Post]

Tags: Guest Posts, inspiration, Motivation, Publishing, self-publishing experience

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller It seems like we blinked and the first month of 2012 passed us by in a blur of annoying political ads, above average temperatures and boxes of Christmas decorations headed back to the [...]
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Continue Reading Writing Goals: Don’t Just Make’em, Meet’em!

Tags: goals, Motivation

Have you written a blog post about your personal goals/resolutions for 2012? Be sure to add it to our Self-Publishing Linkup! The start of a year new year often means setting new goals – but how can you be sure you’ve set proper goals? Aiming too high or too low can be detrimental to the success of [...]
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Tags: evaluation, goals, Marketing & Promotion, Motivation

Have an awesome idea for a post that’s not related to goals/resolutions? Consider entering it in our Self-Publishing Writing Contest for a chance to win Amazon.com gift cards and much more! If you read Monday’s mega-announcement post, you already know a little bit about what we want to accomplish with our Self-Publishing Linkups. In case [...]
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Continue Reading New Year’s Resolutions/Goal-Setting [Self-Publishing Linkup]

Tags: goals, Links & Resources, linkup, Motivation, resolutions

Note: This is our last post of 2011! We’ll see you all back on the blog on January 9, 2012! It’s not quite time to break out the champagne yet! Before you ring in the new year, take a few moments to evaluate 2011. If you’re in the writing phase of your self-publishing journey, take [...]
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Continue Reading Marketing Review & Resolutions 2011

Tags: Marketing & Promotion, Motivation

Well, my lovely Duoliters (Duolitians? Duolettes? Duolitites?) it’s that time of year again. The dawn of a new year is nearly upon us, which brings with it the time honored tradition of New Year’s Resolutions. In 2012, we want to make sure that among your goals for weight loss (this year will be different, really, [...]
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Tags: Motivation

On the beach, by the lake, or in your home, few things are more enjoyable on warm summer days than the comfort of a great read. From romance novels to classic tomes, our favorite books seem to awaken every summer and call to us from tote bags, dusty shelves and (as of late) the memory [...]

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Tags: inspiration, Motivation, summer reading

Whether it’s the fast-paced nature of modern life, the fact that most of us are part-time authors or even just the distraction of the latest marathon of Deadliest Catch, it seems the amount of time the we have to devote to writing and marketing is less than ever. For today’s discussion, we want to address [...]

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