Self-Publishing Advice & Resources

Welcome to our self-publishing resources section, where we regularly update our articles and advice for authors, especially beginning self-publishers. Do check back frequently and make sure you’ve signed up to our newsletter for all our updates, resources and self publishing checklists!

Self Publishing 101 – The Eight Steps To Self-Publishing Your Book

An awesome guide for people new to self publishing who want a general overview of the steps involved, with links to the podcasts where we go into more depth on each of the areas.

Our Recommended Self-Publishing Resources

Our top resources for self publishing authors! We only recommend products we use and love, so you can be sure they’re all worth the time and money that you invest in them.

Rebecca Hefner’s Guide to Marketing Audiobooks Wide

The delightful Rebecca Hefner was our guest in episode 397, and she was kind enough to give all our listeners access to this free guide on Marketing your Audio books wide. Thanks, Rebecca!

Productivity Hacks for Authors

If you’re wanting to amp up your writing speed, get things done faster and more efficiently, this is the place for you. We’ve given you all our best hacks for being more productive in this writing life!

Goal Setting For Authors

If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll never know when you get there! (More likely, you’ll never get anywhere…) In the SPA we think you need to set goals to keep you focused, help you achieve what you really want to achieve, help make decisions on what you should say no to, and above all, so you know when to celebrate a win!

Ten Ways to Be More Organised

The uber-organized Cheryl Phipps is the author of this useful series of tips that will help keep you on track and save time!

Changing your Mindset with Wendy Vella

She’s the queen of focus and dedication, and she’s here to give you some tips for having the right mindset for this self publishing game…

Weight-loss for Authors

Wendy shares her weight loss journey and some of the tips and tricks that helped her lose 55lbs.

Writing Effective Dialogue

Dialogue can make or break your book – here are some of our best tips on writing dialogue.

Ten things I learned from being in a USA today Bestselling Boxed Set

Cheryl’s debrief on the highs and lows of being part of a USA Today bestselling Boxed Set.

Writing the Historical Heroine