Fictive Universe

Check out Tweepi. You can easily clean up your Twitter account for free. I don’t use automated follow/unfollow stuff on my Twitter, so for the first time since 2008, I decided I need to prune my Twitter followers. Tweepi made it so easy. I ended up unfollowing close to 700 tweeps. Some tweeps that haven’t [...]

Mark Coker, the founder and CEO of Smashwords, has posted the results of a survey and in-depth analysis based on data-crunching to come up with some fascinating recommendations on book pricing. Book pricing is something that has intimidated me as a new indie author. Do I just go with the norm in the self publishing industry and [...]

“How do I use Twitter?” That’s one of the most common questions I get by indie authors, so I’m excited to share a great video training called “Twitter for Authors” put on by the Kelsye Nelson and other good people over at Wrtier.ly! Comments, questions, feedback, your own tips, please post them in the comments [...]

Cool video collage of other books bought on Amazon by readers who ordered my book. You can do it for any Amazon product on this website: http://www.yasiv.com/

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted a progress report or blogged, but I’ve been busy writing. To paraphrase successful indie authors CJ Lyons and JA Konrath, the best marketing arsenal a writer can have is more books to sell. In order to reach my goal of publishing book numer two and three in 2013, I have to [...]

Marketing Your Book with Facebook Ads (Part Two of Four). As I mentioned in part one of my Facebook Ads case study, I suggest you order the following books: The Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising and Killer Facebook Ads. In this post (part two of four), I will walk you through the process of setting [...]

I’ve been wanting to learn how to use Facebook Ads to promote my book, The Asset. Facebook Ads are paid messages. You’ve probably seen those little ads popping up when you’re on Facebook. The concept seemed very similar to Google AdWords, and I remember how easily you could lose a lot of money if you don’t [...]

I received my proof copy for the paperback version of my book, The Asset, from CreateSpace yesterday. I must admit, I was” Navin R. Johnson” excited. As a self published author, my book marketing efforts are geared towards the eBook version of my book, but it’s so simple to add a paperback version with CreateSpace [...]

Last week my book, The Asset, was finally live on Amazon. I began to go through my book launch checklist to begin to promote it, when suddenly my desktop computer (an iMac) began to crash. It wasn’t a hard crash, the monitor would just go black. The operating system would still be running, I could [...]

Page 404. We’ve all encountered those error web pages, announcing that the page we’re looking for is caput. Wikipedia describes it better… The 404 or Not Found error message is a HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but the server could not find what was requested. [...]