How to Have a Successful Book Event
Learn how to turn conventions, trade shows, and other live events into opportunities to grow your audience, sell more products, and create memorable customer experiences.
Creative Growth Strategies for a Sustainable Business
Growth doesn’t have to mean chaos. By focusing on what matters—your energy, your audience, and the systems you build—you can create a career that supports both your creativity and your well-being.
Platform, audience, and assets
The success of any launch usually comes down to these three factors. Can you guess what they are? It's not a trick question.
Debrief of our $3,972 Bulletins at the End of the World Kickstarter campaign
We did a campaign, and here is what I thought about it.
What's new on Kickstarter since Get Your Book Selling on Kickstarter came out
Since we first launched Get Your Book Selling on Kickstarter in October 2021, there has been a seismic shift in the way Kickstarter has been perceived in the indie community.
How to supercharge your writing career with Kickstarter
Learn how to validate your Kickstarter idea, build hype for your campaign, and deliver well so backers come back repeatedly.
How to build a sustainable and profitable subscription into your business
Having consistent income every month helps create safety, but how can we build that recurring revenue when it feels impossible to get anyone interested in peeking behind the paywall.
How to build an email sequence for a book launch
In this article, I’m going to explain how you can send emails daily during a book launch without pissing off your audience, and give you the exact sequence I used along the way.
Short circuiting the Substack burnout cycle
It seems like writers have a six-month burn rate where they come in excited, start to build, grind, and burn out. How do we live better lives in the meat grinder of capitalism?
How to build a basic, beautiful one page website
By the end of this article, you will be able to build and launch an amazing one-page website, even if you don't know how to code.
2023 income breakdown
Wherein I break down all the good and bad from the year that was and plan for 2024, and maybe have a bit of a breakdown in the process.
Why make an anthology?
In this lecture, we talk about how to use Google Keyword Planner to find your theme and title your anthology.
Initial questions
Before we get into choosing a theme, we have to answer some basic questions about what it means to create an anthology, why we create, and what we are creating for.