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Colliding with Readers
McHugh sold almost a half a million copies of her debut self-published romance, Collide, and has seen the recent follow-up, Pulse, top the list of Amazon bestsellers.
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The World Had Completely Changed: PW Interviews Kevin Bohacz
Kevin Bohacz’s Immortality received a starred review from PW Select. We caught up with Bohacz recently to chat over e-mail about self-publishing and Immortality’s success.
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DIY: How to Self-Publish an E-book
With so many e-book platforms—old, new, and updated—to choose from, which is the right fit for you? Here's a roundup of the major e-book platforms that are available, and what they have to offer self-publishers.
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Charisma House Launches Christian Print on Demand Service
The service offers authors free typesetting, custom cover design, and preparation for electronic publication in formats for Kindle, Nook, iBook, and Kobo.
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Kobo Writing Life: A Year Later
Since the launch of the Kobo Writing Life (KWL) self-publishing platform in the summer of 2012, the service has grown quickly and now generates about 10% of Kobo’s unit sales.
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Lulu Launches New Features
Lulu is making it easier and faster for indie authors to self-publish their work via a simplified home page, new book templates, and new e-book solutions.
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Change at the Top at Smashwords
Pamela Ann’s Chasing Imperfection was the top-selling book at Smashwords in July, taking over the #1 spot from Abbi Glines’s Forever Too Far, which dropped a notch to second place.
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PW Select Expansion Offers Indie Authors More Options
The popular supplement dedicated to covering the self-publishing industry will now be published monthly, feature indie success stories, and accept more submissions.
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DIY: How to Polish Your Manuscript with Editing and Art Services
One of the best ways to ensure a manuscript is polished before publication is to tap the talents of outside professionals, including an editor, proofreader, and designer.
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Seeing Is Believing: How Indie Authors Can Promote Books with Video
How do you go about creating a video about your self-published book that is going to make readers stumble over each other to get their hands (or eyes) on it?
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Smashwords Self-Published Bestseller List, July 2013
Yet again, romance titles dominated our latest list of the top-selling titles published on the Smashwords platform. However, this month, five YA books broke into the top 25.
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PW Select August 2013: All Our Coverage
A bimonthly guide to what's new in self-publishing.
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PW Select August 2013: New Title Listings
The complete listing of all 179 titles submitted for our 12th edition of PW Select.
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PW Select August 2013: Reviews
Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction and Children's self-published titles from this round of PW Select submissions.
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Writer on the Storm - John Densmore
It is probably hard for most people to imagine turning down several million dollars for just signing one’s name.
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PW Select August 2013: Understanding Copyright - What Every Indie Author Needs to Know
So what’s the fuss all about? Did Eliot really steal from other poets, or were Frost and Cummings just jealous? Why wasn’t the work of those dead poets protected by copyright, or was it? Good question.
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Ingrid Ricks’s Great Escape
In her youth, Ingrid Ricks was in constant search for escape.
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PW Select August 2013: Amazon Discovers New Voices
Since 2008, the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award has discovered and published authors, many of whom have never been published before. In this contest, which is capped at 10,000 entries, the book pitch and the manuscript are what matter—not an author’s track record or book industry connections.
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PW Talks with Roger Croft
Roger Croft self-published the thriller Operation Saladin—the second installment in his Michael Vaux series—through CreateSpace.



