In May I posted a blog about using websites that help authors sell books. Essentially, these are websites that offer bargain book deals to people who sign up to their mailing lists – with the authors paying for their books to appear on the list. The process is simple, discount your book on Amazon (or alternative retailer of choice) and pay a fee for your book to appear on the bargain book website as a book deal of the day….
I’ve self-published two books, The Keeper of Portals in 2017 and The Archivist in 2022. With the editing, cover, printing and various marketing options, these books were far from cheap. If I consider only the costs involved in making the books (editing and printing) then The Keeper of Portals cost £3,362 and The Archivist cost £5,573. The reason The Archivist cost more was because I spent more on editing. The Keeper of Portals only had a copy edit and a…
Bargain book websites offer to promote your book at a discounted rate to their lists of readers for a fee. This fee is often small, and with the opportunity for details of your book to land in 200k+ inboxes, you’d be crazy to pass the opportunity up. But how many book do you really sell? Does the money made from the books cover the cost of the promotion? Is the entire thing, very possibly, a bit of a scam? TL;DR…
Like many self-published authors, I was disappointed with the number of sales I achieved upon publishing my first book. Firstly, this meant that I wouldn’t be able the recoup the cost I’d sunk into the book, and, more importantly, meant that people weren’t reading the book I had spent so much time and effect creating. Of the two, it was certainly the latter that bothered me the most. Then along came libraries. Overview This blog post is primarily aimed at…
£5,423 This is not a click bait article where I ask a question only to bury the answer in a mountain of text. That’s no use to anyone and it’s certainly not the type of practice I encourage on my website. So what does £5,423 get you? A lot, but not enough. Before I break down the cost, I want to talk about that figure a little more. Firstly, The Keeper of Portals was published in 2017, with the costs…
It’s been 20 years since I first created a website, so I thought it was time to give it another go. Here you can learn about my middle grade fantasy novel, The Keeper of Portals, and my young adult supernatural novel, The Archivist, which will be published in Spring 2022. I’m also working on a middle grade science fiction novel about a girl who sells marbles that can stop time, hopefully that will be available in late 2023 or early…