Lean Publishing Tip of the Day: Go for Walks!
If you’ve scheduled time to work on your book and the words just aren’t coming, don’t worry - writer’s block is as old as writing.
Books And Writing
Lean Publishing Tip of the Day: Using Social Media to Promote Your Book
So, in this self-publishing tip, we’re going to be brief and opinionated, with the understanding that if you want to learn more yourself elsewhere, you have many other options, from self-publishing blogs to podcasts to webinars.
Lean Publishing Tip of the Day: Writing Good Book Descriptions
In addition to your book description being seen by people, it will also be seen by bots and algorithms, so you need to keep keywords in mind when you’re writing it.
Lean Publishing Tip of the Day: Setting Up Your Author Profile
One important aspect of self-publishing is self-presentation: how you write your bio, what pictures of yourself you use, and how you set up your author profile.
Lean Publishing Tip of the Day: Selling Your Book to Conferences
Keeping a list of conferences relevant to your book - and keeping it up-to-date by being on the lookout for new conferences - is a potentially enormously profitable tactic for marketing your book.
Lean Publishing Tip of the Day: Enjoy Yourself!
Now, you absolutely do have to do marketing and self-promotion, but the important thing is to make sure you do things you enjoy.
Lean Publishing Tip of the Day: Setting Up Multiple-Copy Team Discounts for Sale to Team Leads and Companies
Many Leanpub books are the kind of professional non-fiction books that people buy to learn something they need to learn for their job, or as part of leading a team, or while building their company.