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Your self-publishing questions answered

I often receive emails from people asking me to call them and teach them how to get started with eBay or publishing. While I’m not quite sure why these people think I would want to call a random stranger, I always try to reply to these queries in some form. My answer is always the [...]

I would’ve prefered my book hadn’t been selected for listing on Amazon.com’s Marketplace, Lulu

In the musical The Producers, there is a very funny part when a choir of obnoxious sounding old ladies start to sing over-the-top back up to what Nathan Lane is singing and he turns to them in despair and pleas as only Nathan Lane can, “Don’t help me.”
That is exactly how I felt when [...]

Lulu contest rewards the self-published author for marketing their own work

There is a lot to love in the new contest Lulu just announced. Instead of judging a contest based on content (which never fully allows for huge variety of POD books out there) this contest is based solely on how well your book sells.
The book that sells the most copies in March gets $1500! Second [...]