By the way I'm monetizing my hobbies again

A sci-fi adventure featuring bike messengers? What could go wrong?

Buy a digital draft of Chapter 1 or become a member to get Chapter 1 plus I'll spam you with new pages as I finish them

Bonus feature: there's no theft-protection on these files so if you just, like, upload them to your favorite discord community, I can't stop you uwu hint hint

https://www.patreon.com/bespokerasterbikeshop/about

Setting up more books into direct print sales.

Me: "I have to open these layout files anyway. It wouldn't be THAT hard to update the full bibliography and author information on each title, would it? It's only, what, 60-some books?"

Sanity: <cattle prod> "No! No! Bad author! BAD!!!" #selfpub

BookVault, IngramSpark, and Amazon KDP provide PDF .joboptions files challenge 2025 #selfpub #headdesk

Ich weiß nicht, was momentan bei mir los ist, aber mir ist gestern wieder eine Kurzgeschichte aus dem Hirn gekrochen und auf die Tastatur gepurzelt. Mit Doppelgängermotiv.
Das wird eine schaurige 3. Anthologie, auch wenn es noch bis zum Release ne ganze Weile dauern wird.

How to not design your book covers. #selfpub

[ETA: I might be mistaken. This is either the worst cover, or the greatest in history. No middle option here.]

NOT DEAD.

I did finally finish my first historical romance, A BLOOMY HEAD, which is about a trans doctor and a widowed cheesemaker in Shropshire, and it is now available for preorder on several platforms.

#selfpub #romance #romancelandia #historicalromance #cheesemaking #cheesemakingfiction #murdermystery #indie

https://books2read.com/u/38q7wr

synopsis to follow.

$12 paperbacks (plus shipping)! Through next Friday! Go to!

Vol. 1
https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=mzRCMedvp6o27E2N0ja9WRfVDOOPxIBl2NIG7MUHJi7

Vol. 2
https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=XTm4S7sxU6uu4tOdm8ginjKcIj0D1Ejs0R0KdhyMQPD

Vol. 3
https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=IOkJS4SM4uV82HlKY7YexXERGd4uK38hIji282Ii3Vd

Vol. 4
https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=u3H4xKV39PPfA343sCiuiteJlnpU11rlIUbbSWKJgQL

Amazon has a clear prioritization pattern when I publish a paperback.

Book exclusive to the Zon: "Eh, we'll approve it sometimes in the next five days. Maybe."

Book already in Ingram catalog: "RED ALERT DROP EVERYTHING PUSH THIS THROUGH NOW NOW NOW!" #selfpub

Wow. I've discovered a whole new category of InDesign bug!

The autogenerated index for RYOMS includes occasional index entries from SEVERAL ENTIRELY DIFFERENT BOOKS.

Fixing for the mass release, of course, but jfc! #selfpub #selfpublishing

After 6 years I relented and used Amazon KDP for my book "The Human Centered Brand".
Amazon is throttling Ingram titles & that damages our readers most of all. Books listed with "3 to 7 months" shipping times, or at a price significantly higher than our retail price.

I've explained this issue here: https://humancenteredbrand.com/whats-up-with-amazon/

Fine Amazon, you've won this round. But just because our non-US, non-UK readers don't have any alternatives anymore.

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0BW9VLVSQ

Ergebnis im Amazon-Rang, zu beachten: OHNE #KindleUnlimited und OHNE 0 Euro Gratisaktion erreicht.

#Buch #lesen #Buchtipp #autorenleben #Selfpublishing #selfpub #indieauthor

Also da bin ich jetzt wirklich stolz!!

If you have works published on Royal Road or Scribblehub (perhaps others too), please check to see if they have been stolen and published on Amazon. Details at https://www.reddit.com/r/royalroad/comments/18v13nj/attention_authors_of_rr_there_has_been_a_spree_of/

Es ist soweit! der neue Band meiner "Geschichten aus der Welt nach dem Letzten Krieg" ist als Print erhältlich! (Demnächst auch als E-Book mit Preisaktion.)
Hier der Link zu BoD, wo es eine Leseprobe gibt (und höhere Einnahmen für mich ):

https://www.bod.de/buchshop/geschichten-aus-der-welt-nach-dem-letzten-krieg-novi-fines-ryek-darkener-9783757892159

Auf dem Foto seht ihr alle Bände. Wer episches Kopfkino für die langen Winterabende sucht, wird hier fündig.
"Novi Fines" ist der vorerst letzte Band der Reihe.

Lange habe ich darauf gewartet, es euch zeigen zu können!^^

Hier ist das schaurig schöne Cover von #ProjektGeisterjäger, das die wunderbare Catherine Strefford für mich gestaltet hat.

Am 17. September startet die Geisterjagd.

I had a bad experience with a book and blogged about it:

https://www.asakkalon.com/authors_dont_do_this/

Our #selfpub #book went viral. Like. The number of free ebooks downloaded off itch has 2 more zeros after it than my highest hopes, 3 more than I expected. I go between absolute shock and forgetting that this even happened to me and being surprised all over again.

#Horror #Bookmail
(with some awesome covers, too!)

-Excited for this Valancourt reissue of a "modern horror classic," according to their wise curators: Thomas Tessier's THE NIGHTWALKER

-THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG IN MORRINGTON COUNTY from Ryan W. Kinney sounds fantastic: "A QPOC-centered horror short story collection. The 12 stories include flesh-eating pixies, killer thighs, people microdosing zombie blood, and more." YES, PLEASE

#books #bibliophile @horrorbooks #PaperbacksfromHell #selfpub

Witch of Dezina kickstarter is LIVE!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/botanicamachina/witch-of-dezina-volume-1?ref=bf3o45

AAAAAAAaaaaaah!

Back the campaign to get a physical copy of the comic!