First (& Second) Time Author: The Secrets to Self Publishing & Book Marketing-How to Find Your 'Why' and Find Readers, a.k.a., How to Write a Book and Sell it to Someone Other than Your Mom

by Steve Bivans

Don’t have time to write it? Don’t know where to start? Think, “I’m not smart enough.”? “No one will ever publish it!”? “If I get lucky enough to find a publisher, no one will read it except my mom!”?


Maybe you’re already an author, but want to know how to s ell more books? What if thousands of people who aren’t your mom, bought it? How awesome would that be?


If you’re looking for a namby-pamby book that promises you best-seller status in a month, coddles you on the way to failure, this ain’t it. Steve’s gonna kick your ass off the couch, destroy your preconceived notions about writing and publishing, and do it with a dash of F-bombs and a heapin’ hunk of humor. What the hell are you waiting on?

61 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 14, 2017

About the author

Steve Bivans is the Author of Anno Draconis: The Viking Saga of Litt Ormr; A Ghost of an Idea; Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth, and the The End of Fear Itself; and Vikings, War, and the Fall of the Carolingians.

He has a master’s degree in medieval history, is an expert on Viking Warfare and Culture, Tolkien’s Middle Earth