This diary charts my self-publishing journey – the ups the downs, the successes and the failures.
Everything goes into this diary, week-by-week, but you'll also find it a source of great tips, resources, tools, podcast recommendations and so on.
If I ever miss something out, or you'd like more information, just drop me an email at paul@paulteague.com.
Paul’s Podcast Diary
1) The Forgotten Children writing progress:
2) My book promos on FreeBooksy, RobinReads and eBookSoda – I rate FreeBooksy highest!:
3) Book promo results over the weekend:
4) Updated ‘favourite podcasts' page: https://www.paulteague.com/essential-listening-for-self-published-writers/
5) My appearance at the Borderlines Book Festival:
Great fun doing my #selfpub presentation @borderlinesfest today, it's a fabulous event. Looking forward to seeing @SusanCalman tomorrow 🙂 pic.twitter.com/5lHHcQFBRc
— Paul Teague (@PaulTeagueUK) October 8, 2016
Help yourself to my slides from the presentation:
6) Improved book reviews on The Secret Bunker 1:
I seem to have found my audience using FB lead ads now, The Secret Bunker Trilogy ads are bringing in steadier USA ***** reviews now pic.twitter.com/qmrWJbNLwF
— Paul Teague (@PaulTeagueUK) October 4, 2016
Author Platform Bootcamp
This will be an occasional feature – episodes will pop up every now and then!
Thriller author Ian Sutherland is about to launch a new service for other authors called Author Platform Sidekick where he will nurture author platforms by focusing on growing their Twitter followers and email subscribers.
This project come about because Ian mastered Twitter early on in his own author career and published his first non-fiction book called Advanced Twitter Strategies for Authors to pass on all of the tricks and techniques.
The site is based at https://www.authorplatformsidekick.com/ and I'm one of Ian's beta testers.
My Twitter account, used for beta testing: https://twitter.com/secretbunkerfan
SocialOomph: https://www.paulteague.com/SocialOomph [Affiliate link]
Follow Ian on Twitter and grab his free 10-part video series on using Twitter: https://twitter.com/ianhsuth [Recommended!]
Advanced Twitter Strategies For Authors: https://www.advancedauthorstrategies.com/advanced-twitter-strategies-for-authors-video-signup/
Ian's podcast interview for Self-Publishing Journeys: https://self-publishing-journeys.com/episode-30-ian-sutherland/
This Week’s Self-Publishing News
The Alliance of Independent Authors news update for Friday 7th October: https://selfpublishingadvice.org/self-publishing-news-what-amazon-did-next/