Mark O'Neill

90% of what I do is daydreaming. The rest is typing.

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Self-Publishing Success

Beginning the first draft of your book

Getting started is always the hardest part. Quite often, you just have to start writing – even if it’s a load of crap.

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Get started writing fiction novels

If you want to break into writing fiction, then how do you start? How do you figure out your genre and write what readers want?

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Having an idea for a non-fiction book

If you want to create your own indie-published non-fiction book, you first have to have an idea. But how do you come up with great ideas?

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Kindle Unlimited versus going wide

Self-published authors can go one of two ways – going all-in with Kindle Unlimited or keeping their options open by going wide.

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Deciding on the reader freebie

Nobody is going to hand over their private email address without something enticing in return.

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Building an author mailing list

An author email list is essential to owning your fans on webspace that you control.

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