🚨 AUDIOBOOK/KICKSTARTER LIVE Q&A!🚨

Feat. #SPFBO authors Tim Hardie, M.T. Zimny & Steve D. Wall. We'll cover what worked, what didn't, & what (if anything) they would do differently.

📅 Fri Apr 5: 8 PM UK / 3 PM ET / 12 PM PT
(Sat Apr 6: 6 AM AEDT)

🔗: youtu.be/PY1w2ZBY3GU

Thanks to the disaster that is the Australian national broadband network, stream 3 is dead and does not appear to be revivable so I'll be sprinting in the Discord for the remaining time. discord.gg/Vv7VNxbTZu

Internet gremlins strike again!👾
My internet just completely died so am finishing the rest of sprint 1 hotspotting off my phone. Fingers crossed it'll get fixed later but if sprints 2 and 3 don't happen, you know why..

Indie Fantasy Fund 2024
—THE YEAR OF AUDIOBOOKS

If you have self-published a great book but don't have the funds to produce an audiobook...

Apply now!

It is literally so hot today that my terrible Australian broadband connection has melted and thus cut off stream 3 today. Sorry guys! Will be back tomorrow with more writing sprints.

A most excellent post on the behind-the-scenes of kickstarting a short story anthology! This (and the next part) is a must read for anybody thinking of tackling a project like this.

No writing sprints for Sat 3 & Sun 4 Feb as I'll be offline, camping! Will be back on Mon 5 Feb with the usual triple sprints.

My opinion as an accountant: one of the best financial transparency reports in self-publishing. No lump sum disclosures here; sales numbers are broken down between paid sales, free downloads, and KU page reads.

Go check out James's books & the other posts in the series!

If you missed it, I dropped my numbers from my debut year. It is important to me to share my experience with others because I think transparency helps. Thank you to everyone who downloaded, purchased, read, talked about, and shared my books.

jamesldulin.com/post/by-the-nu…

Some really great reflections on the start up costs of being a self-published author from John Palladino - CoE (Book 3) progress: 53,000.

Thank you for sharing!

The annual Zack Argyle (off the grid) financial transparency post is up! LOOK AT THAT GROWTH 👀
~10x in revenue
~8x in profit

Congrats Zack on your incredible success—what a way to roll into 2024!

A wonderful deep dive from João F. Silva into what it takes to launch a book like Seeds of War. WITH NUMBERS. Not just the usual headline numbers about sales, but things like mailing list size and open rates.

AHHHH this is HUGE! Cradle anime is happening ❤️❤️❤️

In case you didn’t hear, we’re animating Cradle! Can’t wait to work on this with Jay Oliva youtu.be/TGAQlGOrsbc?si…

...welp, my computer just spontaneously crashed on me and killed the last stream of the day and is not cooperating right now. So uh, we'll pick this up again tomorrow, sorry!

It me. I'm the one who is constantly bad at marketing and desperately needs help.

Help has been given and what do you know? It's simple. And like most simple things, it is hard to do 😂

Here's to trying to implement this tomorrow, one baby step at a time.

Trying something new here, which is offering some advice that no one asked for 🙃 but might help other authors out there.

Source: I’m Head of Creative at a marketing agency, make of that what you will 🤷🏻‍♂️

Short 🧵 on achieving growth

Book cover Quality vs Taste, a 🧵

A lot of reactions to my recent threads have made me think a lot about objective/subjective reactions to book covers.

Disclaimer: I know many people will disagree. These are just my thoughts, not the law. Exceptions exist. Etc.

Relax. 🙂

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