My Favorite Resources to Help Indie Authors Write and Market Books

Use these free and low-cost resources at all stages of your writing and marketing

Don Simkovich, MA
Writers’ Blokke

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Woman reaching for a hand.
Indie authors need a helping hand — I’ve listed a lot below. Photo by Noah Buscher on Unsplash

Writing fiction can get lonely and, like most entrepreneurs, we’re often misunderstood. Getting one novel after another published and going through the work of marketing can be exhilarating, and yet tedious.

My writing partner and I released our fifth novel in mid-November and I was determined that we were finally going to sell books. I had been aware of various authors who were helpful, but for some reason the advice just didn’t stick in my head.

I also hit the wall during our third and fourth novels of thinking, “I’ve done everything and yet our books don’t sell.”

I set out to change that — and had success in December when we sold almost 100 copies of our first novel, Tom Stone: A Nitty Gritty Christmas and had several dozen downloads of our short story that we made free on Amazon — The Smoke Shop Shootout.

Each of the authors listed below will lead to other useful resources, too. My suggestion is to find an area where you want to improve and look for help specifically related.

This isn’t in any particular order and you can find which ones and topics are most helpful…

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Don Simkovich, MA
Writers’ Blokke

Don is co-author of the Tom Stone Detective novels on Amazon and writes content for businesses. Visit Don Simkovich Amazon.