Is KDP Select worth it? Heck no. For those of you that don’t know, KDP Select is the program Amazon runs to get authors in on the Kindle Unlimited Program on the Kindle reading device and applications. Please don’t confuse this with KDP as it is. Anyone can publish to Amazon using Kindle Direct Publishing without … Read more
As difficult as it may sound to the beginner, starting up a new author website is quite easy, even for the more creatively inclined. Having your own author website will give you a hub for you to post what you want when you want to post it. Best of all, you are in charge of it. … Read more
“Josh, you need a job, dude.” Josh didn’t really need a job. He was collecting checks from the government every month for his post-deployment disability. Josh didn’t have a disability. He found an untestable way to get 70% disability from the VA by claiming anxiety, allowing him to get a check every month for around … Read more
I was tempted to call this post “X Number of Reasons Authors Self-Publish”, but that whole post could have been summed up with this alternative title I chose. How does the traditional book deal work? You write your novel that you slaved over for years Pitched it to an agent Got approved or denied, if … Read more
At the time of this writing, the federal minimum wage is $7.25. This is the absolute minimum, and many states choose to have a minimum wage higher than this, 29 as of January 1st, 2015. Five states have no minimum wage, and two states have a minimum wage below the federal rate. What exactly does … Read more
Back in June of this last year, I reached a weight I’ve never been at before and didn’t really know how I got there. When I was in the Marine Corps I reached a weight of 262lbs, after getting serious into powerlifting. I was pretty juicy at 6’4. Cue earlier this year, I bought a scale … Read more
There is a very easy way for people to make money online, without any initial funding. I like to call it the middleman method. What is the middleman method? Essentially, what you will be doing is buying a service from one person, and selling that to someone else for more money. It’s like flipping on … Read more
I used to take pride in having a bookshelf full of books I would partially read and then stick them next to other books of a similar size. They’re loads of fun to carry when moving as well. Like I’m really going to read about Microeconomics again. I liked that I had an old school … Read more
When I first started doing eBooks, I designed all my own covers. It wasn’t until the last few months that I began hiring other people to design them. Little did I know how much easier it was doing it that way, as well as how shitty my covers were compared to the $5 ones I … Read more
Assuming no real following, how are you supposed to promote your ebook? So you finally finished uploading your book on KDP, D2D, etc., and now you want the world to know about your literary masterpiece. Unfortunately, for most completely new writers, their following of loyal readers is a goose egg. Zero. Nada. 0. How are … Read more