Fall of the Bestseller

  Amazon used to make it easy to get on the bestseller lists. Authors and publishers could ask Amazon to intentionally place their book in l...

Cleanup

I am doing cleanup work for a client. I see too many of these tragedies. I’m re-publishing a book my client published previously. They pub...

Paid Too Much to Pretend

The cover on the left costs more. And I don’t just mean that in the banal, “time costs money” — “money is expensive” claptrap way that fi...

No Fire to Share

How To Write a Book You Don’t Have to Pretend Is Selling Well   When I was young, and demonstrably dumber, I subscribed to, “I’ll sleep when...

Sometimes They Want a Story

When you think about it, the most interesting part is sometime...

The Amazon Approved way to change your Book's Categories after self publishing on Kindle Direct Publishing

You'll need to do this process twice. Once for each format of your book. You did publish both eBook and Print book formats right? Rea...

The Skills Economy

The truth about the gig economy I became a freelancer on June 17, 2016. I put together a website, and reached out to the founder of one...

eBooks Don't Have Pages

It is tempting as an author to take dictatorial control over the publishing process, particularly when you are self publishing.Umlauts must ...

Half-light explosions of Addiction

I am an addict.  For years I husbanded the pet hypothesis that all humans are addicts, each to different substances. People hate this hy...

How to sideload eBooks on the Amazon Kindle App on your Android Device

  Writing Nights formats great eBooks.  We take an author's creation, and package it in a way that best expresses the author's...

Amnesia

Updated September 20, 2018 I used to say that I was a nerd. I took a perverse pleasure in it. Owning something that was despised, ye...

The One-Move-Behind Problem

I have a client who's always in his own way. And he's always in his own way in one ultra-specific way. Right before delivery ...