The Gatekeeper Is Back, Authors… In the era of ebooks and at-the-touch-of-a-button access to hundreds of millions… Mercy Pilkington16 January 20182 comments2 minute read
Smashwords Was NOT Hacked…But Change Your Password Self-publishing platform recently sent out an announcement to its authors containing the… Mercy Pilkington10 January 2018One comment2 minute read
Smashwords Unveils Publishing Predictions for 2018 Smashwords’ CEO and founder Mark Coker has once again unveiled his annual… Mercy Pilkington9 January 2018One comment2 minute read
Your 2018 Writing Resolutions For a variety of political and societal reasons, authors have been coming… Mercy Pilkington29 December 2017One comment1 minute read
Kindle Create Available to All Authors Back in the spring, Amazon launched a beta test of a new… Mercy Pilkington4 December 2017No comments2 minute read
Authors Asked, Goodreads Listened: Kindle eBook Giveaways Are Here Indie authors have fought for years to be considered “real authors” by… Mercy Pilkington29 November 20173 comments2 minute read
Amazon’s Cyber Monday Steals Include Books Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos made news over the weekend for being the… Mercy Pilkington26 November 2017One comment1 minute read
Amazon Announces Writing Grant There’s little doubt that Amazon has made a significant amount of money… Mercy Pilkington15 November 2017No comments1 minute read
Pronoun Self-Publishing Platform Closes Its Doors Yet another self-publishing service has closed its doors, but in the case… Mercy Pilkington7 November 2017One comment2 minute read
Turns Out Piracy ISN’T Good for Authors…Or Readers In what has to be the winner of the Captain Obvious Award,… Mercy Pilkington7 November 20179 comments2 minute read
It’s Not Too Late to NaNo If you’re connected to any writers on social media, your timelines are… Mercy Pilkington6 November 20172 comments2 minute read
It’s NaNo Time Again… Ordinary folks may be stringing a few more fake cobwebs around the… Mercy Pilkington30 October 2017One comment2 minute read
CreateSpace Is Closing Its Online Bookstore Amazon owns CreateSpace, the print-on-demand solution that allows indie authors to produce… Mercy Pilkington12 October 20177 comments2 minute read
New Bowker Study Finds Increasing Growth in SelfPub ISBNs If there was still doubt in anyone’s mind that self-publishing is not… Mercy Pilkington12 October 2017One comment1 minute read
New Collaboration Brings Indie Authors Much-Needed Attention In the nearly ten years or so since the recent self-publishing revolution… Mercy Pilkington26 September 20174 comments2 minute read
Thinking of Scamming Amazon? Think Again. For years, the members of both the reading and writing public have… Mercy Pilkington10 September 2017One comment2 minute read
Books and Scandal: Gaming the Bestseller System Indie authors have had to get pretty creative over the years in… Mercy Pilkington2 September 2017One comment2 minute read
Smashwords Announces New eBook Promotion Tool In the ongoing debate about whether or not to list your indie… Mercy Pilkington20 August 201712 comments2 minute read
Driving Down the Price of Publishing Not too long ago, self-published authors were collectively admonished about the need… Mercy Pilkington13 August 2017One comment3 minute read
Bookselling 2017: What’s Amazon Up To? Digital publishing and ebook retailing are still quite the numbers game, as… Mercy Pilkington8 August 20172 comments2 minute read
KDP Offers Authors a New Sales Dashboard There’s little doubt that Amazon has been the driving force behind the… Mercy Pilkington15 June 2017One comment2 minute read
When Authors Have to “Resort” to Self-Publishing Yes, that’s a mildly click-baitish headline, but that’s absolutely the ironic sentiment… Mercy Pilkington7 June 2017One comment1 minute read
Reedsy, Blurb Collaborate for Author Services With the rise of the print-on-demand, digital publishing, and self-publishing age, authors… Mercy Pilkington7 June 2017One comment2 minute read
