New Amazon Scam Hits Authors and Consumers It’s tax filing season for US consumers, so all across America, paperwork…Mercy Pilkington26 February 20183 comments2 minute read
Fifty Shades of Bad for You? Whether you’re a fan of the books and movie franchise or not,…Mercy Pilkington19 February 2018One comment2 minute read
Ingram Spark vs CreateSpace vs KDP Paperback With the signs and portents in self-publishing pointing to the eventual closure…Mercy Pilkington31 January 2018One comment3 minute read
Author Earnings: “The Pool Is Open” The number-fanatics behind the Author Earnings report have released another installment in…Mercy Pilkington24 January 20183 comments2 minute read
B&N Rebrands Its Self-publishing Platform – Nook Press Self-published authors who’ve relied on multiple sales channels to put their books…Mercy Pilkington23 January 2018One comment2 minute read
Amazon Accidentally Drops a 50% Royalty Bombshell Indie authors who took a browse through their KDP dashboards this week…Mercy Pilkington17 January 2018One comment2 minute read
Wattpad Secures $51M in New Funding Whether you’re a reader or a writer, if you’re not on Wattpad,…Mercy Pilkington17 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
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
New eBook Platform Solves Promo Problems As reading consumers, we’ve gone from having no digital content to have…Mercy Pilkington20 November 2017One comment2 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
