On Living A Better Life, Screwing It Up, And Everything In Between
First and foremost, I have to tell you that this article has more than 2000 words. So, if you’re after the “quick and easy guide on how to write a successful ebook”, well, you’re in the wrong place. It’s not gonna be even remotely “quick”, and I have my doubts about “easy”. Sorry about the … Read more
As of today, the Kindle exclusivity – required by the enrollment in the Kindle Select program – is over. Which means that the book “How To Self-Publish On Amazon, Kindle And iBookStore” is available as a PDF download too. [Later update: it was just approved as an iBook too in iBookStore] For those of you … Read more
Almost a year ago, I wrote an article about self-publishing. It was roughly a personal story about my own struggles with the process, a few detailed descriptions of some of the most intricate stages and a bit of an evaluation. Fast forward a year: today, the article has more than 350 comments. It was mentioned … Read more
For the last 14 months I’ve been learning how to become a self-published author. And by that, I mean not only PDF ebooks available on the blog, but also printed books on Amazon, Kindle versions and, of course, for the latest hype in town, ePub-based ebooks in Apple iBookStore. What follows is a (very) distilled … Read more
It’s the last day of March, so it’s time for the monthly report about this month monkey. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go read the introductory post about taming monkeys. Which is basically my new approach to yearly resolutions. The March monkey was supposed to be related to an outside thing, a … Read more
Making money with a blog seems to be the Nirvana of self-publishing: everybody talks about it, a few claim to be there already, but fact is nobody really saw it. I always was fascinated by this incredible opportunity offered by blogging. Just 6-7 years ago, self-publishing, although praised and awaited, was nothing but a science … Read more