And now I TOTALLY feel like dropping the fantasy novel and getting back to some science fiction. (grin) Got up this morning at 6am, off to work shortly after again. Another typical work day – doing a bit more there each day, as I get up to speed with how they do things there. …
This year at BEA (Book Expo America), a number of sponsors are working together to bring a special all-Sunday set of workshops and seminars. They\’ve named the experience \”UPublishU\”, and it\’s ALL about self publishing. For $99, it looks to me like it could be a fun and interesting experience. Here\’s a link to the …
This year at BEA (Book Expo America), a number of sponsors are working together to bring a special all-Sunday set of workshops and seminars. They\’ve named the experience \”UPublishU\”, and it\’s ALL about self publishing. For $99, it looks to me like it could be a fun and interesting experience. Here\’s a link to the …
Self publishing is an outstanding way to go. Dean Wesley Smith has just sounded off that his position is now that for novels, self publishing is a better method than traditional publishing unless you\’re being offered a solid six figures per book. And possibly even then, depending upon the contract clauses the traditional publisher is …
WAY back in December last year, I made a post with a set of predictions about what would happen in 2011, in the realm of ebooks and epublishing. Here\’s the link. So I was curious, with the year ending, how I did. What came true? Where was my crystal ball horribly off? Let\’s see. …
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So, a few new changes to the blog over the last 24 hours! First, I added a new column. The new column has links to my books and short stories on various vendors (just Amazon and Smashwords for now, but I\’ll be adding B&N soon as well). I can already see that becoming a problem …
I\’m a huge Jim Butcher fan. When I first ran across his Dreden Files novels, I tried one out. Read it in about a day. Went out and bought a few more. Read those in 1-2 days each. I worked my way through the first eleven books in something like two weeks. Harry Dresden is …
Now available on Kindle. Coming soon on Nook, Apple, Smashwords, and other venues! So! I took the plunge and now have my first totally independently published short story up. I figured I\’d practice and get the kinks out with a couple of shorts before moving on to longer works, but honestly I was very pleased …
I\’ve been speaking loud and long on this topic over on LinkedIn lately. It\’s a growing issue, a problem I am seeing inexperienced writers facing every day. A week does not go by without me hearing from or reading some writer talking about how they \”self published\” their book through some subsidy press or another. …
Joe Konrath ran an interview with Mark Coker of Smashwords the other day. Great interview. Super comments thread. Well worth reading, even the comments, as there\’s a lot of meat and Mark takes the time to go in again and again to address various issues folks have had. But there was a repeating strand of …
