Self Publishing
How to Write Narrative History: A Practical Guide for Authors
Most people who say they’d like to write a book don’t actually want to write a novel. They want to write about something that happened. The war they’ve read about for twenty years. The disaster they can’t stop watching documentaries about. The expedition, the siege, the trial, the family story that turns out to be […]
How To Keep Every Reader You Find
The Author Newsletter: How To Keep Every Reader You Find (And Always Know What To Send) You spent months writing the book. You got it published. You even found some readers. And then they vanished. Back into Amazon. Back into Facebook, TikTok, Wattpad, Medium or wherever they happened to find you. The next time you […]
How to Sell Printable Games for Kids
The same printable children’s game sells to parents, teachers and party planners – if you write three listings. Here’s how each buyer differs. Say you’ve made a printable board game for children. Dinosaurs, maths questions on the cards, aimed at six to nine year olds. Perfectly nice thing. Who buys it? Most people answer “parents”, […]
How to Publish Christian Fiction on KDP: A Practical Guide
Christian fiction has its own category tree, its own reader expectations and its own communities. Here’s how to publish into it so readers find you. Every piece of KDP advice tells you to find an underserved niche. Then everyone goes and looks in the same three places, finds them thoroughly served, and concludes the whole […]
How to Create and Sell Journals and Planners Online
Journals sell on the cover, not the interior, and on the niche, not the design. Here’s how to pick one with buyers and build a collection round it. There are a great many journals and planners for sale online, and most of them sell nothing at all. Not because they’re badly made. Plenty are perfectly […]
How to Make Infographics With AI (Without a Designer)
AI infographics usually come out with mangled text and no structure. Here’s the framework-first method that fixes both, plus where to post them. Ask an AI image tool for “an infographic about email marketing” and you will get something that looks, from four feet away, like an infographic. Get closer and it falls apart. The […]
How to Write Serial Fiction That Readers Come Back To
Serial readers decide whether to continue at the end of every episode. Here’s the craft, the platform mechanics and the audience-first publishing plan. Most self-published novels launch to nobody. Not because they are bad. Because the author spent eight months writing, hit publish, and only then began wondering where readers come from — by which […]
How to Sell Printable Puzzles: The Two-Asset Method
Most printable sellers make one asset and hope. Here’s how to build a puzzle business where every theme produces both content and a product. There is a particular kind of frustration that belongs to people selling printables. You make something good. You list it. You post about it. A few people look. Almost nobody buys. […]
Turn Amazon Book Research Into a KDP Publishing Plan
Your Browser History Is Full Of Unwritten Books Every self-publisher knows the feeling. You open Amazon to research a niche. One listing leads to another. Then a bestseller chart. Then a review section where three different readers complain about the same missing chapter. Then a blog post that gives you a sharper angle. Then a […]