Tag: self-publishing

  • Numbers, and £££, and an auction…

    Writers work with words. That’s a fact, but numbers play a part too. Not only do we have sales figures and the dreaded Amazon rankings to contend with, we have to think about price and profit and tax returns and accounts and all the other etceteras. And I’ve always been terrible at maths. Sales figures…

  • The Writing Life: Getting paid…

    Hybrid writers, they say, have the best of both worlds. I’m not sure that’s true – I think we have the pros but also the cons of both traditional and self-publishing. Take getting paid… I have two traditionally published books. Every six months I receive a royalty statement, theoretically immediately followed by payment, for six…