2016 has been quite a year, hasn’t it? Apart from the major national headlines involving politics, deaths, and the escapades of various celebrities, it’s been quite a big year for us here at Self Publishing Advisor too! Narrowing our gaze a little further, we’ve covered a lot of material, even just within my domain—Thursdays—with my “In Your Corner” column. It’s hard to pick just a couple of highlights to mention, since the full list is simply staggering:
- 1/7 Resolutions for 2016 That Every Aspiring Author Should Make (pt 1)
- 1/14 Resolutions for 2016 That Every Aspiring Author Should Make (pt 2)
- 1/21 Resolutions for 2016 That Every Aspiring Author Should Make (pt 3)
- 1/28 Resolutions for 2016 That Every Aspiring Author Should Make (pt 4)
- 2/4 Superbowl 50 Edition
- 2/11 Loving Your Self-Publishing Company
- 2/18 What You Need To Know About Book Fairs
- 2/25 What Do I Need To Know About Co-Op Ads?
- 3/3 Celebrate National Reading Month With These Marketing Tips! (part one)
- 3/10 Celebrate National Reading Month With These Marketing Tips! (part two)
- 3/17 Celebrate National Reading Month With These Marketing Tips! (part three)
- 3/24 Celebrate National Reading Month With These Marketing Tips! (part four)
- 3/31 Celebrate National Reading Month With These Marketing Tips! (summary edition)
- 4/7 You Don’t Have to Wait for May
- 4/14 Save the Earth (and maybe even the Whales) with POD!
- 4/21 Three Ways to Celebrate YOUR Poetry This National Poetry Month!
- 4/28 Debunking the Myth of Multiedition Self-Sabotage
- 5/5 The Crimes & Good Times of Book Review World
- 5/12 Amplifying Your Voice, OR, “What IS a Press Release Anyway?”
- 5/19 Lights! Cameras! Action! Taking your book to the movies
- 5/26 Putting the Pieces Together
- 6/2 Shopping for a publisher? Three lessons from a lingerie counter.
- 6/9 Want to win big at marketing? Unleash the wisdom of “Game of Thrones”!
- 6/16 The Side Benefits to Starting Early
- 6/23 Building Anticipation Like a Pro (or maybe like Patrick Rothfuss?)
- 6/30 Why Pampering Yourself (& Your Book) Isn’t Such a Bad Thing
- 7/7 Summer Goals (Pt 1)
- 7/14 Summer Goals (Pt 2)
- 7/21 Summer Goals (Pt 3)
- 7/28 Summer Goals (Pt 4)
- 8/4 Taking It To the Big Screen
- 8/11 Optimize Your Amazon Presence!
- 8/18 The Voice In Your Ear
- 8/25 Partnering With Bloggers
- 9/1 Help. It’s Not What You Think.
- 9/8 Choosing a Self-Publishing Company
- 9/15 Choosing a Trim Size for Your Book
- 9/22 Know Thyself (& Thy Genre)
- 9/29 Settling on a Price
- 10/6 Choosing a Cover
- 10/13 The Guts of the Thing
- 10/20 The Proof Is In the Pudding
- 10/27 Next Steps
- 11/3 Marketing For Anything-But-Dummies
- 11/10 Making Your Presence Felt
- 11/17 Giving Thanks This Holiday Season
- 11/24 The Spice of Life
- 12/1 Be the Life of the Party…Literally!
- 12/8 Hold On To That Pen–Don’t Put It Down Just Yet!
- 12/15 Making sense––of the holiday drop-in.
… but I would encourage you in the direction of the series on summer goals and New Year’s resolutions—since goals and planning and resolutions are of such paramount important here and now, at the very tail end of the year.
For those of you more interested in looking ahead, there’s a lot to look forward to! 2017 promises to be absolutely packed with surprises and opportunities for all of us, authors and publishing professionals alike. Early next year, for example, I’ll be digging into the particulars of what it is that I do and how you can put my expertise in Author Services at your disposal. After all, my day job and our mission here on the blog is one and the same: to set you up for success with blog posts full of consistently high quality content. And from all of us here at SPA, I want to thank you for a stellar year of engagement and response, and to express hope that you’ll visit again. We have a lot of great content we can’t wait to share with you in 2017!
You are not alone. ♣︎
Self Publishing Advisor 