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Marketing Your Self-published Book - A Brief Guide

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Do you have a self-publishing plan? You have published your very first book. You're ecstatic. You begin to daydream.  You see the rave reviews that have been published about your work.  You see yourself selling hundreds or thousands or millions of your books.  You see your work on the various bestsellers' lists.  You see yourself making your mark as renowned authors. This is scenario 1 and it is a nice one. This may be the potential reality for you. But,  y ou must not lose sight of other possible scenarios. Scenario 2. You have modest sales, and you don’t make the bestsellers' lists, at least not immediately or maybe never. Scenario 3. You will have few takers for your work, at least in the first few months or even years of publishing your first book, to your grave disappointment. To maximise sales of your book, you must...

Chapter 21 MY OWN BIG WOMAN

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MY OWN BIG WOMAN is a novel set in Jamaica. It is about the decline of a woman's relationship with her sister and their struggle to exist in the same space. Take a listen.

Bernadette Mayer's Writing Experiments - Try One! Or Try a Few.

Many of you have made New Year’s resolutions. You hope that they will provide a roadmap to help you achieve the goals that you have set for yourself for each year. Realistic goals, you think. And by all accounts, they are. But at the end of each year when you reach for your checklist of goals that you’d aimed to achieve, you realised that you’d fallen short. You did not achieve any, or only a few of the goals that you’d set yourself to achieve. Probably goals related to your personal well-being : You did not lose the weight you wanted to lose. You did not give up a habit that you wanted to give up. You did not get out of a toxic relationship. You did not forgive those persons who’d “sinned” against you… Probably goals related to a change of career or expanding your career options: You did not apply for any jobs although you actively hate the one that you have and the people with whom you work. You did not audit any courses to upgrade your skills although you know where to find these...

Chapter 20 MY OWN BIG WOMAN

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MY OWN BIG WOMAN is a novel set in Jamaica. It is about the decline of a woman's relationship with her sister and their struggle to exist in the same space. Take a listen.