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Jun.11.2012
Last year, I wrote a piece called “My Realities—How to Market Your Book or Watch It Die.” I ended the piece explaining what I was about to do with three books, and now I can tell you what I’ve learned from it.
First, perception is so much about where you stand. If you’re a new writer wanting to be...
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May.31.2012
Turn over a rock or open a Writer's Market and find writing contests. All over the Internet the word travels at the rate of speeding electrons about the latest and greatest writing contest. Plunk down the money, write a story, and grasp fame and fortune -- and publication.
Why not enter a contest,...
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May.19.2012
Everything changes and yet everything stays the same. Seems like an oxymoron. In publishing, that is exactly what it is -- an oxymoron. The more things change, the more publishers seek to maintain the status quo, scaring authors into believing there are nothing more than an unimportant cog in the...
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Apr.01.2012
Ms. Hawking has had and does have it both ways, with eBook sales (and self promotion) and traditional publisher sales (and a publicity Dept.). I pay attention and advise other authors to take a look.
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So What Do You Do, Amanda Hocking...
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Jan.10.2012
According to an article dated 10 January 2012 by Dave Lee in the BBS News Business section, Julia Keller, the 164-year-old Chicago Tribune's Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic says there is a "revolution" going on.
Until recently, considered "desperate" and "egotistical" she nows thinks of self...
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Jan.09.2012
When Jon Land offered to read and review my novel, Among Women, I was a little anxious. He was after all an internationally known author and I was just the person who had read and reviewed several of his books, and not always with glowing words. I pointed out shortcomings and places where the plot...
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Jan.01.2012
Many authors and people in the publishing business are using the words “monopolistic” when it comes to Amazon for a few reasons. One is that traditional publishers were slow to understand digital publishing the way the music industry was slow. The music industry shot off its feet with two barrels....
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Nov.04.2011
I’m not sure when “genre” became a dirty word in creative writing programs. I certainly didn’t want “genre.” I wanted Art (capital A important.) Every one of my fellow writers down in the trenches of great writing at USC's Master of Professional Writing Program imagined Sales (capital S important...
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Sep.27.2011
THE 99-CENT EBOOK DILEMMA: ROAD TO SUCCESS OR A SUGGESTION “IT SUCKS”?
When Amanda Hocking first made news earlier this year that a 26-year-old out of Austin, Minnesota, could become a millionaire by selling her books for 99 cents on Kindle, anyone with a flicker of a story hammered it out and...
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Sep.06.2011
After I wrote about the challenges of marketing literary novels (see my previous post here), I asked if anyone knew of an author writing a literary book that’s done what Amanda Hocking, J.A. Konrath, and other eBook superstars have done. A reader on Kindleboards told me about Darcie Chan and...
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