The Solo Author
Diego PinedaDo you want to build a business around your book? Learn how to write, publish, and create a book ecosystem with the Solo Author framework.
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Launching a book in the future?
A friend of mine, Chris Stanley, is a multiple times bestselling author and he just released a new book that will simplify your book marketing.
It’s called LAZY Book Launch.
I teamed up with Chris to give my readers a free copy.
It’s you...
The business hiding inside your novels
Every fiction author has the same dream: quit the day job, write novels for a living, and watch the royalties roll in.
Sounds wonderful.
There’s just one problem. For most authors, royalties barely pay the bills.
According to the Authors...
How (and why) I published five books in one year
Five books in twelve months.
Four novels and one novella.
That’s what I’ve published over the past year, across two fantasy series: Son of the Axe and Dark London.
When I tell people this, they usually ask the same question: How do you m...
Advertise your book like a researcher
For the past few weeks, I’ve been running a fairly obsessive advertising experiment with Dark Stations, the first book in my Dark London supernatural suspense series.
The goal is simple: find an ad I can keep running.
For readers unfamili...
Email Promos Actually Sold My Book
If you’ve spent any time marketing an indie book, you’ve probably encountered the same wonderfully reassuring advice I did:
Run ads.
Facebook ads. TikTok ads. Amazon ads. Feed the machines money and eventually, allegedly, readers emerge f...
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