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6 Ways To Collaborate With Other Indie Authors For Better Marketing (And More)

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It’s tough out there for indie authors. Whether you’re self-publishing or working with a small press, you probably don’t have access to the budget or contacts of a major publisher, but that doesn’t mean you’re out of luck. Freedom is one thing that indie authors will always have more of than authors pursuing the traditional route to publication, and freedom mixes well with another attribute indie …

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How To Get Reviews When You’re Just Starting Out

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You’ve written a seriously awesome book – it’s well researched, insightful, and compelling. Not only that, but you’ve had it edited to death and then back to life again. It’s a masterpiece, it’s ready, it’s available for purchase, and people are buying it! In fact, they’re loving it… and yet they’re not leaving reviews. Readers keep coming in dribs and drabs, but you were expecting a snowball …

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Scrivener Review: Is It The Best Book Writing Software?

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The tools of a writer’s craft have constantly evolved through history, from oral storytelling, through quills and typewriters, to the modern computer.   The way that writing tools have developed you could be forgiven for thinking the next innovation in writing technology will be a new machine. In fact it’s book writing software that represents the future. Computers have grown more …

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