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Times are Bad. Children No Longer Obey Their Parents, and everyone is writing a book
The headline above could easily be the headline of a New York Times article. There is truth in it. There is no shortage of media coverage on just how bad the times are today.There is plenty of evidence to show that cosseted children demand rather than obey, and, a...
Fifty Shades of Publishing
Fifty shades of Publishing. The Publishing Industry, just like any other industry, is a world of its own, and just like any other industry has its own language and terminology. To the uninitiated what seems to be so obvious, is in fact, not. In publishing there are...
The Rise of Self Publishing and The Independent Author
In the year 2008 Amazon disrupted the traditional book publishing (Trades) industry with its release of a technological triptych that would revolutionize the world of publishing: the e-reader Kindle, the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and a new payment process that...
Power of Daily Journaling – My First eBook Republished
The very first book I self-published on Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) was The Power of Daily Journaling. That was three years ago. I just republished it. One of the things I learned from my mentor was that when a book is selling well, add more value for...
The Art of Self-Publishing: Why Authors Choose to Self-Publish
The art of self publishing is alive and well and flourishing on the internet. Traditional publishing houses such as Penguin Random House and Hachette are facing fierce competition from none other than the lowly independent author. Once dismissed as upstarts and...
Book of Intuition: Introduction to the Power of Intuition
Now available on Amazon ... Book of Intuition: Introduction to the Power of Intuition About a year ago, I got a call from Yama. He wanted to meet to discuss something. That “something” is now available on Amazon. A self-published eBook titled Book of Intuition: ...
Goals, Projects and Time
Happy New Year! Love things new especially when it signals new beginnings! Over the weekend I watched the world welcome 2017! City after city, country after country. Fireworks and celebrations everywhere. Joy at wiping clean the slate of yesterday and fresh one to...
On Becoming an Accidental Publisher
iPublish Books is one of those businesses that was conceived accidentally. My bread and butter is earned in the digital media marketing space working with small, mid-size business owners and solo professionals. A few years ago I was at a local Meetup. Our guest...
You Don’t Have to Get it Right, You Just Have to Get it Going
“You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going” Mike Litman, Conversations with Millionaires. Mike Litman was my first internet marketing mentor. Under his guidance I launched my first internet business - a blog about dogs. The image above is a...
Three Forks in the Road
My Story Part II: The Three YESSES Someone once told me that between the ages of 18 and 21, there are three times that you say YES or NO to something that set the wheels in motion that run the little engine that could called your life. As far as I know there is no...
My Story: Writing Come Back to Me!
For as long as I can remember writing was in my blood. In school I was the child that made extra effort to create longer sentences, descriptive paragraphs and learned how to tie it all up with a nice bow as an essay. Gold stars stickered my homework assignments. How...