The National Young Writer's Festival (NYWF) put on a workshop today on how to publish on eBook platforms. At first, I felt a wee bit ripped off because the facilitator was Kate Eltham from Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) and she seemed to be rehashing the material I saw up at The Edge a few months back on the future of the book.
But right when I thought "I'm getting up and outta here", she pulled out a few useful bits, like links to smashwords, the eBook platform and syndication website, how to sell your e-book through the Amazon Kindle store, and what other writers are doing to monetise books that the print publishers reject.
Basically, if you have the right content, the readers will search for it and buy it. No brainer really. Build your own audience. Not a new concept but a very current one. Yaro Starak, my internet guru, has been preaching that for a while in his blog Entrepeneur's Journey. He's making money out of his blog hand over fist.
So, after listening to Yaro talk for a few years now about this, I bit the bullet and joined his BlogMastermind course, which teaches you, surprise - surprise - how to make money blogging. It's a six month course guaranteed to give results, if you follow his instructions to the letter and you do the work. Well, I'm about to begin building my audience peeps. I've got content coming out of me faster than I can type, and it's time someone read it. So, thanks to Kate Eltham for confirming what I had already learnt: print is dead. Go online, because someone, somewhere in the world will like what you're doing.
Stay tuned, folks, coz I will be unveiling the blog for Not A Chance, a documentary I've been working on for the last year, which touches on a topic that's become quite popular: Indian matrimonial sites and the role they play in traditional arranged marriages in the 21st century. The website goes live tomorrow arvie, which means a heck of a lot of work for yours truly, as she blogs her way and schmoozes through NYWF and the rest of TINA.
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