Independent Publishing Academy

Articles about all aspects of the self/independently published author

  • Yes, I Have No Agent. Here’s Why. 

    Yes, I Have No Agent. Here’s Why. 

    I don’t have an agent. Should I have an agent? Do I, as a fiction author, need an agent? What’s it like to have an agent? To answer the last question first: I don’t know what it is like to have an agent. I’ve never had representation.  I Wanted to […]

  • “Five Years” is Coming to a Farmers’ Market (Possibly) Near You!

    “Five Years” is Coming to a Farmers’ Market (Possibly) Near You!

    I will be making my first public appearances to support my new novel, Five Years, this weekend.  Five Years is Book 1 of The Middlewich Chronicles, a dystopian trilogy set in what used to be rural New Hampshire. One small town has walled itself completely off from the chaos tearing […]

  • To ISBN or Not to ISBN?

    To ISBN or Not to ISBN?

    To buy your own ISBN or not: that is the question that many new independently published writers have. Many self-publishing experts insist you need them; others say they aren’t necessary.  So which is it? Bottom line, most self-published authors don’t need to purchase their own ISBNs. But in some cases, […]