Independent Publishing – What Is It?

Independent Publishing is about you as an author going into business. Yes, the business begins with the writing of that special novel, biography, business book, or self-help book that you have long dreamed of completing, or with the hiring of a talented ghostwriter to...

Know Your Book Designer

When you are independently publishing your book or self-publishing, a book designer can and should be your best friend. After all the work you’ve put into creating a special novel, biography, business book, or self-help book, you deserve a finished product that looks...

Independent Publishing vs. Vanity Presses

If you’ve spent as many days, weeks, and months as I have writing your very important and extremely special book, it is vital that you know the difference between publishing your book independently or relying on vanity presses or pay-to-publish companies.  They are...

Self-Publishing Mistakes

Self-publishing is world filled with opportunities. It is also a world filled with challenges, uncertainty, and, very often, disappointment. If you are self-publishing, it means you’ve spent considerable time writing your book or collaborating with a ghostwriter....

Ghostwriting is an Art

The best ghostwriters are generally successful authors in their own right.  They are generally highly published and very often critically acclaimed. Like the books that ghostwriters author for their own literary collections, the books they author for their clients...

Smart Book Cover Design

How many books have you passed over because the cover design did nothing to attract your attention.  It happens far more often than we think.  A poorly designed book cover is a disaster in many ways.  In many ways, it screams “amateur.” And that is not to say that all...