My A-Z of Self-Publishing
All this to come next year...
Hello, first of all today, I have a plea!
The cover for The Nameless (designed by Tom Sanderson) is in the BBNYA cover contest (runs alongside the main award for the book itself, which I’ve made the final of) and I’d love for you to vote for your favourite cover in this poll.
Thanks so much!
I’ve got one more draft ready to go on ‘A year without advertising’ - my account of 2024, where I’ve not spent any money on promoting or advertising my books, and I compare that to 2023 where I did! But I will leave that until next week (or maybe the dead week between xmas and NY!)
Over the next 52 weeks of 2025 (so approximately a post every fortnight) I’ll cover an A-Z of self-publishing - I’ve already produced content for many of these topics but it will be good to add to and refresh them, as well as produce new posts for the others!
A is for A+content or ARCs
B is for Bookfunnel or Bookbub
C is for Covers or Canva
D is for Discounts or Direct Sales
E is for Excel or Editors
F is for Facebook Ads or Free book promotions
G is for Goodreads
H is for Hard Covers
I is for Ingram Spark or Illustrators
J is for Journeys
K is for Keywords or Kindle countdown deals or KDP select
L is for Line edits or Ltd company
M is for Marketing or Mailing lists
N is for Newsletters
O is for Originality or Organisation
P is for Promotions or Pre-Order
Q is Quickbooks
R is for Readers or Readthrough
S is for Social Media or Series
T is for Timing
U is for Upselling
V is for Vellum
W is for Written Word Media or Writing
X is for Xcellence
Y is for YouTube
Z is for the ‘Zon
If you’re interested in SP, this will hopefully be a really helpful newsletter next year! Hope you all have a wonderful holiday and get some rest and recovery (or if you’re a full-time worker like me, this is the time to double down on the writing side!)