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Begin Self-Publishing Podcast

Learn how to self-publish and market your book on the Begin Self-Publishing Podcast

Nov 25, 2015

As a homage to the great blog concept of the ‘mistakes post’, here I present to you my 3 biggest self-publishing mistakes I’ve made so far. Mistake 1 : Changing Genre My first big mistake was changing fiction genre from Time Travel Science Fiction (Timeshock) to Young Adult Fantasy (Magpies and Magic).    ...


Nov 18, 2015

I’ve been putting off talking about ISBNs and whether you should use them, mainly because I have not yet made my own mind up.  In this episode I try to state the reasons for using them or not.  I personally would advise using them for Paperback books, but not necessarily for eBooks. What is an […]

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Nov 11, 2015

In this episode I interview Andy Bromley a marketing manager at Ingram Spark.  I’ve always been intrigued with Ingram Spark, who have a reputation as a higher quality but more bespoke Print-On-Demand service than CreateSpace, the service that Amazon provides. I asked him several questions to try and drill down...


Nov 4, 2015

In today’s show I interview Debbie Young, the blog editor of the Alliance of Independent Authors blog (Alli), fiction author and currently writing a book for the Alli about getting your book into book stores. How should an indie author approach a bookstore to see if they will stock their book? Where should they...