Better Book Covers The big boys and big girls in this business all have fantastic covers. Immediately, our eyes are drawn to their covers. Their covers silently yell at us inside of our heads to click on it to find out more so we can buy it. The same dynamic of success is at [...]
Authors Should Speak Authors should speak. Publishers should speak. Everyone should speak. Hey, here's the deal. With the power of the pen, all of us writers speak. It's true. That's what we do through our writing; we speak. However, we have another powerful tool that will boost our self-published books. That tool is our [...]
Love Your Work People like us love our work. We help people. And we help them in our own ways while making this world a better place. So, of course, we love our work, right? We bravely create our own paths, and we make the world a better place. It’s what we do and who [...]
Smile More Believe it or not, way back in 1988, when I graduated high school, I won the most optimistic for my senior superlative. I was always smiling and always looking on the bright side of things. I always had a can-do attitude. Come to think of it, when I was a little kid, one [...]
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness We self-publishing indie authors are in a pretty good position of having low overhead expenses in our authorpreneurship business. We don’t have to pay rent for a building. We don’t have to have thousands of products lying around in a warehouse somewhere. And we don’t have to continually [...]
Nobody is Coming to Save You On the surface level, it may look sad that no one is coming to save us. But the truth is that it really isn’t sad. As a matter of fact, it’s a good thing that no one is coming to save us self-publishing indie authors. And it’s actually [...]
Owing Your Own Business Here’s the thing my self-publishing indie authors, slow and steady wins the race, even when starting a business. Hey, there’s something to be said about owning your own business and not having the business own you. Yup… Believe it or not, most people don’t own their own business. Instead, the [...]
Living Simple We have all seen the glamorous Hollywood lifestyle on television. We look at these beautiful people who have it all and wish it was us. We don’t even stop to think about how most of what we see is choreographed to make us lust after them and what they have. We just [...]
Getting Off the Kryptonite Couch I learned a long time ago that my couch was made of kryptonite. Yup. At least part of my sofa has kryptonite in it somewhere. They hide it well. I tried to look for it a few times but realized it was useless. These people are expert kryptonite hiders. [...]
The Power of Routine Sometimes people ask me what my success secrets are for being an overachiever who is such a prolific writer and content creator. They want to know how I’m able to do so many different things. I always tell them that it’s just a simple matter of self-discipline with a schedule. [...]