Poetry
No, I don't want you to redesign my website.
The author asserts their ownership of their website and dismisses unsolicited web design offers, citing their experience with coding and SEO. Despite experimenting with various strategies to boost book sales, including sharing poems online, these efforts have not yielded results. Instead, personal connections through live performances have proven more effective for engaging readers and selling books.
Review numbers are not an accurate reflection of book sales
The author shares their experience with low review rates despite significant downloads of their books, highlighting that many readers do not leave reviews. They discourage fellow authors from engaging in unethical practices to obtain reviews, emphasizing patience and authenticity in building a readership. Bad reviews are part of the journey.
E-book Redistribution Success!
It isn't about the $12. It's that the $12 wasn't charged to everyone equally, and only penalized low-selling authors. These stores wouldn't have any products if it weren't for the writers producing material, and yet every step of the self-publishing process takes a monetary cut away from the writer. Since I had already invested in […]
The rude delusions of book club scammers
The Nigerian book club scammers who harass me daily have consistently gotten meaner in response to my lack of response. I usually don't even open their emails, but today I got curious. However, my lack of response is exactly what I explicitly state that I will do. This communications policy is printed on numerous places […]
Free ebooks: The End of an Error?
The pitch is that giving away free ebooks will entice people to leave you a review on the platform they downloaded it and on Goodreads. If this were true I would have over 4,000 reviews for my books on Amazon alone since 2009 when I first joined KDP to distribute Tea & Sprockets. It seems […]
The Time Machine of Publishing Decisions
I wanted to publish a poetry book since I was 13 years old which was 1996. It was always in the back of my mind. In more recent years I am criticized often for choosing to self-publish the way that I self-publish as though I am personally responsible for the ills of capitalism and the […]
Saying Yes to Rest; Saying No to National Poetry Month
For years National Poetry Month used to inevitably be followed by National Burn Out Month in May. Challenging yourself to write a poem a day while attending multiple poetry events per week for five weeks straight is a recipe for burnout, especially for many introverted and neurodivergent writers who need ample solitude to recharge. There […]
Unearthing National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month, World Poetry Day, and a forgotten history.
Hitting 100 anthologies in under 10 years
D.L. Lang reflects on being published in 100 anthologies.
