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The Stuff We’re Not Telling You (The downside to being an author)

In order to balance the reality of what we see in our feeds, I approached a bunch of writers from across the country and asked them to share all the things they felt they couldn’t …

Secret Life of an Author Bookseller: Why Bookshops Are More Expensive

For most authors, books sold at high discount to retail chains, department stores and heavily discounted online stores means their royalty rate will drop, often by 50%.

Learning the art of (self) promotion with Holly Craig

There are plenty of places you can learn writing skills from Holly but what I wanted to learn was Holly’s next-level self promotion skills.

Secret Life of an Author Bookseller (Part 2): What I have learned from the publishing reps

While it would be awesome for authors if all publishing house reps could sell every book to every bookshop, it’s simply not going to be possible. Logistics are against us. There’s not enough time nor space on the shelves.

Secret Life of an Author Bookseller, Part 1 – How does your book end up on the shelf?

Whoever coined the phrase ‘available at good bookshops everywhere’ is doing good bookshops a disservice, because even the biggest and best bookshop cannot possibly stock 10,000 new titles every year.