Another essay from Earl Nightingale - from "How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds" series.Have you ever noticed how most people seem to be waiting to be happy in the future? They seem to be so intent on getting through the day, they forget...

An explanatory excerpt (and proven test) of how you don't have to use explicitly detailed sex to involve the reader, but instead let the reader use their imagination...“OK, this is a secret – you can keep a secret, can't you?”He nodded, but sat...

It all started when I saw that everything I was doing was wrong. At least in marketing.Of course, I'd been concentrating on research and publishing, so that wasn't so bad. But the research wrapped up, and all those hundreds of books I'd...

How to Get Rich How to Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - CompleatHere are a few thoughts that you can make your own, thoughts which will guarantee you success all the years of your life. Now, that is quite a statement, but it’s true. To...

Fiction Books Don't Sell Themselves. Sure, a good title and cover help, but it's the "blurb" that seals the deal.Especially in these days of so many look-alike books out there.Some of the worst advice on marketing has been from some of...

Books don't sell themselves. Sure, a good title and cover help, but it's the "blurb" that seals the deal.Some of the worst advice on marketing has been from some of the "guru's" with thousands of followers. Because "conventional wisdom"...

Replacing Costly "Giveaway" Services - saving money and time with GumroadAs an author, or any creative producer, the key point you want is to get your readers and buyers into your mailing list. Most of the time, you have to pay to give...

For all the work I've spent, and time and money invested, it's kinda funny that when you quit banging your head against walls, it also quits hurting.I started self-publishing in 2006. My first books on Lulu say that this was 2007. And...

(While my blogging is new to Gumroad, I've been running weekly challenge posts for the last three-plus years. And this post picks us up halfway through this years, and it's refocus onto memberships.)"When solving problems, dig at the...

Authors tend to want to "luck into" their income. Lucky calves daring each other to see how close they can get...Because 1) they are following their passion and 2) Marketing and Promoting isn't as much fun as writing. So when a book...

This follows up on working how to organize all the data I have - and all the different readers who follow my works - into just what they want in some place where they want to find it. The plan is to have four memberships:Living Stories...

Glad to see you here, too...This new (to me) feature allows me to post here to just those buyers and followers that come to my production outlet here. So, expect more of these posts in the near future. It came to me, as an author, that...