by bookshepherd_admin | Mar 2, 2021 | Author Alert, Author Mistakes, Author Success, Book Marketing, Change
It’s 2021 and Time for an Author Do-Over … A Change in Plans 2020 was a wallop of a year in dishing out change, flowing it from multiple directions. The way you worked, where you worked, and how you worked morphed. Socializing was flipped on its head. Outside...
by bookshepherd_admin | Jan 19, 2021 | authors, Publishing, Writing Success, Writing Tip
Not a week goes by where authors I’m working with or places that I’m speaking at that, where I don’t get this question: Do you have any quick tips for getting unstuck in writing? My answer has multiple components, but it starts with one word: Yes We all get stuck once...
by bookshepherd_admin | Jan 7, 2021 | Author Alert, Author Power, Author Success, authors
This is for my friends and followers who seek authoring, book marketing, and publishing advice and tips from me. You wouldn’t be getting this email if you weren’t. Yesterday, my day came to a wrenching standstill when I got a text—Turn on your TV NOW. I did. I was in...
by bookshepherd_admin | Jun 30, 2020 | Author Alert
As a book publishing expert, one of the areas I got multiple questions is on word theft. Oh, people do life from published books. But the real resource is something that YOU control. Your website. Has your personal website become a resource … for...
by bookshepherd_admin | Jun 16, 2020 | Author Alert, Author Success, Book Success
Woot … you’ve published a book—congrats! You are now a “published” author; sales are coming in; you are promoting it in every channel you can think of, and then an online OMG moment hits. Your book has walked someone’s plank! It may be a not-so “Yo-Ho-Ho” time...
by bookshepherd_admin | Nov 3, 2015 | authors, Book Success, Publishing, self publishing
On Sunday, November 1st, Dan Poynter ’s fight with acute cancer ended. A true giant. Dan was the catalyst and visionary and has remained in the center of the growing self-publishing community. Seeing the value of self-publishing, it was seeded with his love of...
