Yes! It is time to talk about all the "nice" platforms that you can sell your book on. But (...there's always a "BUT!") this time I wanted to brag about the platform that I am a part of, "BOOK SELFIE"

Cool platform to sell all formats of your books; Print, Audio and eBooks. And guess what, they even started offering POD.

aahhh... one more thing! of course it is full of humor and jokes :)

00:27 Center of The Universe
00:57 News From SelfPublishingAuthors.com - Book Covers, Interior Layout, Book Conversion
02:45 Today's Subject: Platforms, Where You Can Sell Your Books
05:37 Book Distribution & Aggregators
06:03 What Is An Aggregator
11:45 New Book Selling Platform - Book Selfie
14:22 The Big Opportunity For Indie Authors

In the previous episode, I explained both of the publishing methods. In this episode, I am going deeper to explain the difference between the Traditional Publishing and Self-Publishing.

...and as usual, the episode is full of jokes and funnies about you know who :)

1:47 Book Submission Period
4:31 No Initial Investment
5:38 Royalties
7:54 Advance
9:01 Corrections and Revisions
9:57 Prestige
11:40 Book Distribution
14:21 Freedom to Choose To Give The Rights
15:50 Marketing and Advertising
16:14 Two Important Things in Self-Publishing
19:00 Control Over Your Book

... and the self-publishing humor continues with this episode, where I explain the the meaning of "What Is Writing To Market". Needless to mention, we also need to know "What Is NOT Writing To Market".

This is one of those subjects that usually misunderstood by the self-publishing authors, and consequently avoided. However, it has a great importance for the success of the indie authors, especially on their sales.

00:15 Lift Off :)
00:40 How Much Self-Publishing Authors Are Making
01:10 Introduction
01:47 What We Are Going To Talk About Today
02:20 What Is Not Writing To Market
04:30 What Is Writing To Market
07:23 Where Everybody Gets Confused
08:28 Example of Writing To Market

In the previous episode, I explained both of the publishing methods. In this episode, I am going deeper to explain the difference between the Traditional Publishing and Self-Publishing.

...and as usual, the episode is full of jokes and funnies about you know who :)

1:47 Book Submission Period
4:31 No Initial Investment
5:38 Royalties
7:54 Advance
9:01 Corrections and Revisions
9:57 Prestige
11:40 Book Distribution
14:21 Freedom to Choose To Give The Rights
15:50 Marketing and Advertising
16:14 Two Important Things in Self-Publishing
19:00 Control Over Your Book

There are many explanations of traditional publishing and self-publishing. However this podcast has a humor, where I explain both of them for the beginners as well as the advance authors.

00:21 The Topic: Traditional Publishing & Self-Publishing
00:54 Traditional Publishing - What is it all about?
09:06 Self-Publishing
10:08 Which Way to Go?
12:38 Two Most Important Parts of Publishing

Created a series of podcasts from the short videos about self-publishing.

We have the following in this podcast:

00:13 What is keyword research on Amazon and is it important?

03:09 What does knowing your target audience affect?

05:12 Are there any other platforms you can use to enhance your book sales (besides social media)?

06:06 What is the difference between book synopsis, book blurb, and Amazon book description?

07:53 What is Kindle Unlimited and how authors get paid?

10:20 What is, and what is not, "writing to market"?

13:01 Where else can you sell your books other than the big platforms?

Created a series of podcasts from the short videos about self-publishing.

We have the following in this podcast:

00:14 Five points you should know before you start spending on advertising

01:30 Five steps that people go through before buying a book

02:19 Ten steps to start your indie author career the right way

04:12 How does Amazon's search algorithm work?

07:07 Can I make passive income from my books?

08:24 Do you have to be a businessperson if you are an indie author?

10:33 How many pages should my book be?

12:27 How to become a successful indie author

13:54 How much can you make as an indie author

We had a lovely conversation with Wendy L. Anderson, who is an indie author of eight fantasy novels (so far!) and quite a few coming up!

She shared her author journey, which started in early ages but took a little while to get it going... nevertheless, just like any determined indie author, she started publishing one book after another.

Here is the timeline:

00:51:18 Introduction.
2:14:18 When did you start your author journey?
3:12:19 How many books and series do you have?
3:34:20 Just released a book today.
3:49:22 Where are your books published?
4:13:13 Is your latest book a standalone book?
4:35:15 Are you a fantasy author, or would you consider yourself any other type?
5:37:18 Do you think you'd have a problem with Disney with your latest release?
6:46:19 How long did your last book take to write?
7:34:10 My writing process.
9:26:19 Do you work with a developmental editor?
10:16:01 How long does it take for you to finish a book, including cover design, editing, etc?
14:39:13 Creating a spin off series from Kingdom of Jior Fantasy Series.
16:16:10 What formats do you publish your books?
17:31:07 Audiobooks.
20:26:03 Do you do plotting, planning, outlining, etc when you are writing your books?
24:52:24 I let my husband read my books to get his feedback because he is an engineer with analytic thinking.
26:21:05 How do you divide your day to work on different parts of self-publishing; writing, marketing, social media, etc?
30:22:01 Tell us about your book promotions, your campaigns?
33:54:23 What do you do to improve yourself?
36:53:18 Do you go back and revise your previously published books?
39:07:04 Wendy comes out with the secret for her covers.
42:29:11 What would be your "one recommendation" for the newly starting authors?
46:34:00 What did your family take it when you told them you wanted to become an author by then, and how do they like it now?
49:44:00 I would like to add that I just released a book today: Rapunzel's Tower. Go buy it!