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Brian Lawrenson

Interview with a successful, self-publishing travel writer

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Brian Lawrenson is a successful self-published travel writer with over 30 titles on the Kindle. He has, however, had the odd scrape with Amazon over breaches of their rules.

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Sunday Self-Publishing Round-Up [Vol 1, 22]

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It was a week you’ll remember for finding out you can ask an author a question about their book.

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Ebook marketing tip: Don’t review your own book

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Reviews are a critical plank of your ebook marketing but that doesn’t mean you should review your own book. Yesterday I happened on Oprah Down Under, a Kindle ebook by Brian Lawrenson. What a great piece of clever ebook writing, one that demonstrates the speed with which e-publishing can capitalise on a current event. Tourism [...]

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Don't forget to celebrate your writing accomplishments

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As self-publishing Kindle authors, the part of our lives in which we get to write can have a narrow focus: the gaping white page in front, the sentence that we’ve spent half an hour trying to get right. If we pull back a little, it’s often to bring more worries into the frame: the book [...]

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