Self-publishing articles on Vandal.
Is Amazon KDP Select the best publishing choice? I have been doing a lot of hand-wringing recently about moving all of my ebooks into Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing Select program, and by doing so, granting Amazon exclusive rights to my ebooks. I wrote about this in my last post. Yet my dilemma is small fry…
It’s a tough decision to publish exclusively. I have been self-publishing for a very long time, well before the introduction of the Amazon Kindle in 2007, so I think I have been around the block a few times. Over the years, and particularly during the last eight years, I have have had a love-hate relationship with Amazon,…
I love How To articles. There are millions of them floating around the ether of the internet. Some of my favourites include, ‘How to drink a martini’, ‘How to train your dragon’, ‘How to knit a hat’ and ‘How to get a cold’. Just amazing how many things there are that we just don’t know…
How do you connect with blog readers? When I started blogging, the only route to gaining readers for a blog was by encouraging visitors to subscribe. Either by RSS feed or by email. The logic was simply that the more subscribers you had, the more readers you had. While this is still popular with many…
Does Twitter automation work? As a long time user of Twitter, I have been around the block and back many times and have tried automation in a number of forms. Some successful, some moderately successful, and some abject failures. For those newer to the platform, automation is a tempting alternative to spending hours building a…
I’ll let you into a very personal secret. When I’m not busily writing, which of course means staring out the window with a blank look on my face, I actually have a list of everyday chores that I have the possibility to tick off upon completion. While none of these tasks carry a mandatory tag,…
