Harvey Stanbrough

On Being a Professional Writer: Introduction

Hi Folks, Soon I’ll begin a blog post series on being a professional writer. As a preface, this post will provide an overview. If you have friends who are writers, please tell them about the series. This will be an important series for anyone who is serious about being or becoming a professional writers. Generally, I’m going to take a different tack with these posts too. Instead of telling you what I think you should do, … Read more

6 Ways to Increase Book Sales (and Why They Work)

Hi Folks, One of my StoneThread Publishing authors and I were discussing possibly giving away a “sampler” that contains, say, the first 20 pages or so of four different books. If I have 32 books, I’d create 8 samplers. The author originally was talking about creating printed samplers in POD. The discussion led from why I wouldn’t prepare printed samplers to what I could do and what the author could do. I decided it’s is an … Read more