If you publish audio through ACX, check your July statements before you pay anyone. Their new royalty model changed the statement layout, and figures taken from the summary tab can come out 66% lower. I said in May this wouldn't be a problem. I was wrong. www.moonstrucksoftware.com/post/acx-s-n...

ACX’s New Royalty Model: Why Your Data is Safe (And Why AYCL Is Mostly Just "KENP for Audiobooks")

UPDATE - AUGUST 2026. ACX changed the layout of their royalty statements with the July payments. If you take your figures from the summary tab, they may be understating by around 66%. Check your July ...

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#HorrorWritersChat Missing in action tonight - going to a lecture about Scorsese’s Taxi Driver - don’t have fun without me, fellow kids…

Mary Wyrd (she/her)@marywyrd.bsky.social · 2d ago

Write horror? Want to talk about it? Join the #HorrorWritersChat community on Wednesdays Next meeting: Wednesday 5th August at 2 pm (EDT - USA) / 7 pm (BST - UK) All horror writers from any time zone are welcome! Guess the theme from the image and get a virtual cookie. #AmWriting #HorrorSky

So, I did a thing. It started with a series of blog posts, that was supposed to turn into a 20 page how to guide and instead became a full sized book because I realise that no one ever talks about how you do this stuff properly and so many small presses manage by trial and error

A lot of the small presses and indie authors I know struggle with marketing so I've started a blog series to share a few pointers. The first one is up now and covers your product page including blurb writing. www.moonstrucksoftware.com/post/how-to-...

How to Build a High-Converting Amazon Product Page for Any Genre (Before Running Ads)

Before we get into the details of running successful Facebook ads on your books, there is one thing that needs to be taken care of first. Your Amazon Product Page.Ads are good for one thing, and one t...

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Imprint Royalties v1.9.4.8.1 — 02 July 2026 Minor bug-fix release. ### Fixes - **Anthology contributors wrongly flagged as orphans if no other titles existed. - **KDP current-format import (2024 column rename).** Some KDP accounts used different column headings for historical data. Fixed.

Ahead of By Dawn's Early Light coming out on Tuesday, the first book in the Jack Carlton series is on sale for 0.99 on Kindle until the 3rd July. www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7ZXGWVJ www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D7ZXGWVJ

Imprint 1.9.4.8 is now out. Adds support for legacy KDP files (pre 2016), resolves a bug with Google imports and now splits free sales out into a separate dashboard item. Check the FB page for full release notes.

This (along with the book review I posted earlier) has really made my day. When an indie press titan like Jen from Raw Dog Screaming Press gives an endorsement like this, it makes 3 years of design and development worthwhile

The reviews are coming in! Less than two weeks to go!

Ginger Nuts of Horror@gnofhorror.com · 2mo ago

By Dawn’s Early Light, the sequel to Night Bleeds Into Dawn, drags private investigator Jack Carlton out of his AA meetings and back into the dark, this time hunting a serial killer called The Witchfinder whose medieval cruelty turns out to be far more than metaphor.

The first review of By Dawn's Early Light is live! (Breathes a sigh of relief)

Char’s Horror Corner@charshorror.bsky.social · 2mo ago

By Dawn's Early Light was fast paced and action packed. Nearly 300 pages long, I burned through paragraphs as if I was on fire and the book aflame too. Full review here: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... @graemereynolds.com #Booksky

Imprint Royalties has a new review! Disclaimer - despite this review being on an AI tools site, Imprint has no AI functionality whatsoever. ai4writers.club/ai-tools-for...

21 days until this beauty is out there. Burning questions such as "how do you clean the cage of a demonically possessed guinea pig" may or may not be answered.

FB Ads have been a nightmare for ages now. 3 months ago, I put a short javascript timer on my landing page that stopped clicks within 2 secs of the page opening, triggering the pixel. www.moonstrucksoftware.com/post/the-2-s... #Booksky #WritingCommunity #SelfPublishing #FacebookAds #IndieAuthors

The 2 Second Java Script Fix That Saved My Facebook Ads

Let's be honest here. Facebook Ads are not what they used to be. If you look at the dedicated subreddits on advertising and Facebook Groups for authors, they are filled with the same complaints. Previ...

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Final call for Halloween themed flash fiction stories (subs close end of May): www.patreon.com/posts/this-m...

All the stress, doubt and worry when you launch a new product is made worthwhile when you see a review like this from someone who has run a small press since 1988. Thank you @darlenecypser.bsky.social ​#WritingCommunity #IndiePublishing #SmallPress #BookBiz #HorrorCommunity

My blog post about the troubles at TouchPoint Press, with many updates. A reminder that a publisher doesn't have to be an intentional fraud to damage writers and their careers. writerbeware.blog/2023/06/30/s...

Small Press Storm Warnings: Adelaide Books, Propertius Press, TouchPoint Press - Writer Beware

Adelaide Books I’ve written two prior warnings about Adelaide Books, but it seems that a third is in order. Background: Adelaide, which presents itself as a traditional independent publisher but has a...

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Victoria Strauss@victoriastrauss.com · 3mo ago

The @authorsguild.org has won a default judgment against deadbeat publisher TouchPoint Press, enabling 18 writers to get their rights back authorsguild.org/news/authors...

How many times can I repost this..

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 3mo ago

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

Got some massive upgrades to do to Imprint. But not today. First rule of software development. You dont deploy anything on a Friday unless the world is on fire. But big drop on Monday :)

Moonstruck Software - home of the Imprint suite of indie press publishing tools is now on Trustpilot :) uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.m...

Today's video is a bit of fun before I get back to the How To guides. Can you do a full small press monthly royalty run in 60 seconds? Watch and find out... youtu.be/E-gFZ0mzGsg?...

Small Publisher Royalty Speedrun in 60 Seconds

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I've spoken about the Imprint app I developed but I figured show don't tell. So here is a rough video of a monthly multicurrency royalty run done start to finish in under 2 minutes. youtu.be/k9x-PJpSox4?...

Imprint 2 minute demo

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🖋️📖💰 - #indiepublisher #indieauthorlife I've run a small press for over 15 years and one of the biggest pains is the royalty run each month. It can take hours extracting the info you need from spreadsheets. So, I wrote a tool that does it automatically for KDP. And I'm giving it away free.

About 48 working hours of edits over four days, and By Dawns Early Light is readable. Off to my beta readers to pop my little bubble of self adequecy

Chucked my first draft into an epub, uploaded it to my kindle and am ploughing through it as a reader for the first time. Not too bad so far. Bit wordy at times. Possibly use "fuck" as punctuation too often. But so far structure is good and it's made me laugh.

First draft of By Dawns Early Light completed, 3 days shy of a year since I started it. Now the hard part begins. With any luck it will be out around March./ April next year

I've spent this morning adding all of the old convention stock to the Horrific Tales website, many of the titles only £5 - including Hardcovers! We also have a special offer on print editions - 25% off at checkout with the coupon code autumn2025 until the end of the year. horrifictales.co.uk/shop/

Tonight's movie - the canine centipede

Today I am mostly trying to work while suffocating on puppy farts

Instead if what I originally had planned for the weekend (book stuff) I drove to Leicestershire and picked this little dude up. I have no regrets... well... maybe a couple

I feel ashamed of myself for even posting this and asking, but I need the help to take some of the stress and pressure away - me and my husband, and our three beautiful dogs, are hoping that you can help raise emergency funds to try and find a new house. gofund.me/061cd1b4

Donate to Help to Avoid Homelessness, organized by Amanda Rutter

My name is Amanda, and me and my husband, Dan, have just been served a Section 21 notice on t… Amanda Rutter needs your support for Help to Avoid Homelessness

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